I scored some lead today at an estate sale. 15 - 1 lb ingots & some strange looking molded strips. Some of the strips had a retangular hole down the middle & others had 3 round holes through them. Any ideas what these flat strips may be from?
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I have some linotype from the city news that looks kind of like that.
Looks typical of what I’ve gotten in Monotype
I have a pool and the hand held scraper/sucker has lead weights with the 3 holes in it for the screws to hold them in place. When they get old and have to get a new one, I take out the lead weights. Frank
Is this stuff linotype in hardness?
Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.
It's harder than lino. The longe stripes are spacers. Sometime it's foundry type hardness (9sn19sb) and sometime it's steel.
For simplicity I regard them as lino if that's what I have the most of, and take the extra sn and sb as an extra bonus.
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I think that they are type spacers. Sometimes hard, sometimes not so hard.
Everything pictured is linotype spacers. The short pcs are saw cut from longer strips. Typically spacers contain a little less tin and antimony than linotype but xrf will give a definitive answer
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