I finally finished smelting my type metal score. While it was mostly common linotype with alloy with entire sentenc3s on short plates, there was some monotype and foundry type mixed in.
Due to it being old and already oxidizing from the scrap yard storing it outside, I decided to smelt all of it vs trying to bucket store it.
Some of that decision came from the wife after she noticed I was taking up too much of the porch with buckets...
I originally paid for 422#.. Had hoped to get up to 400# of ingots.
I hit the flea market for some old cornbread molds to help me cast faster than just using my home made angle iron mold and lee mold.
All said and done... 493# of clean ingots.
I made a combination of corn pone, angle iron and lee mold ingots as well as mini muffins. I also , at the suggestion of a few cadters, made many 'coins' in the mini muffin mold to use as small batch 'sweetners'.
All said and done.. Figuring my purchase, tax, propane, extra molds and a tip to the guy at the scrap yard, I have 1.53$ per pound invested.
I'm ecstatic!