GOOD ANTIMONY SOURCES?
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Charliemac
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dhagerty40
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i second on Rotometals. if you want a good reliable source, they are the ones!
I quit shooting cast bullets many years ago. I think they make wheel weights out of zinc now. Glue on weights. I found a small shop near where I live that made lead alloys for companies that cast bearings for heavy equipment. I told them I wanted linotype. They blended the alloy, cast it into blocks while I waited and sold it for a very reasonable price.
Don't forget you need some tin to increase fluidity. It makes sure the grease groves and the base corners are square and not a rounded curve. Tin is the expensive part.
Try a GOOGLE search for lead alloy supplies in your area.
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That’s what I have always used as well…what I had on hand. I’ve heard that it melts into an alloy better because it is already bound to the lead. I don’t know how true that is…it is what I’ve always used
Greg@wfcustom
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LOLI have at least 500lbs of antimony hardened lead. My grandfather was a printer, and all of the dies they used for printing presses were hardened lead. I put it in the back of my truck in the winter months for weight
A buddy of mine and I melted down a 55 gal drum of linotype from a print shop that was shutting down, talk about a lifetime supply!
Great for alloying since it had a fair amount of tin in it as well!
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dusterdave173
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Ebay
Dad poured Babbitt bearings and I could always get vintage pieces cheap on eBay.
Bet they have lots of it on there.
Dad poured Babbitt bearings and I could always get vintage pieces cheap on eBay.
Bet they have lots of it on there.
Just curious, where do you park your truck? Asking for a friend! Lol.I have at least 500lbs of antimony hardened lead. My grandfather was a printer, and all of the dies they used for printing presses were hardened lead. I put it in the back of my truck in the winter months for weight
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dhagerty40
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a friend of mine called me and asked if I wanted some lead from a print shop that closed and thinking it was 50 or 60lbs. I said I would take it. after I melted down the type into ingots, it came out to be almost 900 lbs of linotype!
Bottom Fodder
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Well I’ve got about 100 +lb. Of good ole fashion wheel weights from back in my casting days, my melting pot is under my loading table and I have moved my molds and sizer 50 times looking for something I needed. I keep telling my self when I get “ round to it” I’ll melt them down in to ingots still hadn’t got “round to it”
Greg@wfcustom
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Hey Dan,
That wouldn't have been Jim Henry by any chance? That's who sourced that 55 gal drum I mentioned and after we melted it all down in my driveway, we each ended up with @ 500lbs in 25 lb ingots
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Greg@wfcustom
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50/50 Lino & wheel weights (the old ones) made a great alloy for Pistol Silhouette Cast Bullet loads!
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dhagerty40
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nope, it was Eric king who asked me!
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