Melted down 180 lbs of spacers last night that I have had taking up room in my garage. Today I took a sample to my favorite scrap yard and they analyzed it for me. A little light on antimony, but should work fine for what I shoot. Picked up another 100 lbs of clean pure lead, and 200 each .38 and .357 nickel cases. All for $85.
Hardball alloy is 92-6-2. Seems to me you are pretty close. You might need to add a bit of pure to that alloy you have.
that's pretty close to LinotypeOriginally Posted by jss227
These were linotype spacers I got a few years ago, along with a few pigs, mono, and lino.
I'd mix it 50/50 with the pure lead and then add 3% tin. That would come very close, if not the same as, Lyman #2 alloy.
Larry Gibson
“Deficient observation is merely a form of ignorance and responsible for the many morbid notions and foolish ideas prevailing.”
― Nikola Tesla
Cut it with range scrap for Lyman #2. And add 2.5% antimony.
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