Buddy @ work scored me some free lead today.

[Ole]

Christmas in October!



I work for a water dept. A buddy of mine that works on the construction crew cut this old lead joint out of a leaky pipe today and saved it for me.

It weighs 15.5 lbs!

Last lead joint he gave me smelted out like pure lead. Is this a correct assumption?

I made him up a box of .30-06 tracer ammo last time he saved me one of these. I reckon I'll have to make him up something else one of these days.

[BACKTOSHOOTING]

I got a bunch of that from a friend, 160lbs, and it was pretty close to pure, The jonts on them had a good amount of tin in it and when smelted i got the gold hue on the top of my pot.
Pure will get the blues and purple colors.
Sinse then i have learned to not smelt to hot and flux more often when i make ingots.
Nice score

[dikman]

Probably the same as they used to use when jointing lead cables for phone lines - lead is pure, but the solder used to joint it would have the tin in it. When I think back on all the lead cable I used to see lying around when I worked, I could cry. If I only had more foresight.......

[zomby woof]

Probably the same as they used to use when jointing lead cables for phone lines - lead is pure, but the solder used to joint it would have the tin in it. When I think back on all the lead cable I used to see lying around when I worked, I could cry. If I only had more foresight.......

I used to work for Kodak Dental X-Ray. We went through pallets of lead a day! Of course that was way before I started casting.