Thanks Curt and that is similar what Steelbanger has passed on to me over the years, he worked in print shops where they used the linotype.Ohio3Wheels wrote:A brief mention of something I was told a lot of years ago by an old time printer about scape/used linotype. He told that most of it that go scraped instead of reused was because the tin had "burned" out of it and it stopped making good type. The last I had was from a salvage yard in a chunk a little smaller than a bowling ball, yah heavy. To reduce it to pot size I smacked it with a 3 pound sledge and it broke. So far I've found that about 2 lbs of it mixed with 20 pounds of cable sheath makes pretty good leading free boolits.
Cable sheath is said to be a good source of antinmonial lead but I don't know the precentage or if it was even standardized among cable makers.
Had a really good run reheating bullets today! Bullets for the 300 Savage, 308 Win, 32-20 Win, 32 Win Spl, 35 Rem, 357 Mag, 375 Win, 41 Mag,, 44 Mag, 444 Marlin, 45 Colt, & 45-70 Govt! I've done a conservative estimate of my needs for the next three years and just reheated what is necessary. I have huge quantities of some such as the 32-20 Win, 32 Win Spl, and 357 Mag. I will just store the excess to be heated three years from now. I realized today, that I have so many of some of these that I will never cast the molds again, just reheat the remaining stock as needed.