It sells on line for $15-$20 a roll. It’s fluxless tin/copper/silver, and I might get ~75lbs off the stuff.
Is This A Desirable Lead Hardener?
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It's free to me
I’ll clarify, use it as tin. Tin helps with fill out and hardening, but also best to get a little (3%) antimony in the alloy.
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Should be good enough to give werewolves a burning sensation, with the low silver content.
Seems to be a fairly expensive way to go, though.
Seems to be a fairly expensive way to go, though.
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Ikarus1
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I've used solder to help fill out the mold but antimony (as in clip on wheel weights) is far better at hardening lead.
2% tin is a great addition to COWW alloy and pure lead 50/50 (or 49/49/2)
2% tin is a great addition to COWW alloy and pure lead 50/50 (or 49/49/2)
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I have over 100lbs of pure lead.
at 2% you have enough tin to make about 2 tons of alloy.
You could swap some of that solder for some linotype or monotype, or go to roto metals and buy some superhard.
Ikarus1
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I have about 3 metric tons of wheel weight lead. Been grabbing it cheap and free when I good
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And how, pray tell, are you locating outI’ve gone to a couple tire places I’ve bought tires, offered to buy and they declined.
Ikarus1
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Traded for it at scrapyards, and hit a couple tire shops for bucketfuls a decade back. Bought some from this forum members and castboolits
Pewter. If you're out with the woman and she's going through thrift shops get your ass in there and look for it. I have a box of it that I need to melt down into small disks. It does help make a pretty bullet.
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Value wise, this would work only if you got the pewter items extremely cheap at such shops.
Spot price for tin is currently just under $16/pound. (Obviously, actual cost is spot plus a mark up. About $22 or so per pound if you buy 3 or 4 pounds at a time.)
You can get pewter ingots for nearly the same price as tin ingots, though, if you shop around.