mgmorden
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Ok, I've got a basic "starter" kit on the way and am hoping to get into bullet casting. The kit is from Lyman and includes the electric melter, ladle, ingot mold, and books.
I have about 150 lbs of sheet lead that was left over from building x-ray rooms (and may have more on the way - I know some people in the construction industry who do a lot of medical construction and usually the left-over scrap is just tossed in the trash, so I asked if they wouldn't mind saving it in the future).
I plan on throughly reading through the provided literature before lighting up the pot, but as always I'm always reading ahead online and getting ideas .
Anyways, I haven't melted this stuff into ingots yet, but this stuff is SOFT. From my understanding it's mostly pure lead. I'm getting into this to hopefully reduce the costs of shooting, so ideally I don't want to spend too much money buying additional materials to alloy with it.
The local hardware store has some solder available for $28/lb that is 95% tin and 5% antimony. I assume that this would be a good additive to alloy with, but my question is: how much of this stuff do I add? $28/lb ain't exactly cheap, so I'm hoping I don't need to invest in TOO much of the stuff .
Thanks!
I have about 150 lbs of sheet lead that was left over from building x-ray rooms (and may have more on the way - I know some people in the construction industry who do a lot of medical construction and usually the left-over scrap is just tossed in the trash, so I asked if they wouldn't mind saving it in the future).
I plan on throughly reading through the provided literature before lighting up the pot, but as always I'm always reading ahead online and getting ideas .
Anyways, I haven't melted this stuff into ingots yet, but this stuff is SOFT. From my understanding it's mostly pure lead. I'm getting into this to hopefully reduce the costs of shooting, so ideally I don't want to spend too much money buying additional materials to alloy with it.
The local hardware store has some solder available for $28/lb that is 95% tin and 5% antimony. I assume that this would be a good additive to alloy with, but my question is: how much of this stuff do I add? $28/lb ain't exactly cheap, so I'm hoping I don't need to invest in TOO much of the stuff .
Thanks!