found some lineotype

[Lloyd Smale]

going to have to pay 60 cents a lb. the most ive ever paid and drive 300 miles to get it but i found about a 1000 lbs

[dubber123]

Just think about how much you'll SAVE by not having to buy all those bullets!  That should take a little sting out of it.

[Lloyd Smale]

heck and if i dont waste it anymore on plinking bullets it might last me a year

[dubber123]

Lloyd, I'm guessing you mix that lino with wheelweights?  If you switch to shooting .25 acp exclusively, your supply will last much longer!  Those 400+ grain slugs do eat up the alloy.  I cast up some 32-20 bullets the other day, and it's amazing how much longer a pot of alloy lasts!  Good shooting.

[Lloyd Smale]

I know what you mean. Cast with a couple 4 cavity .512 or .476 molds and a 20lb pot goes empty real fast.

[dubber123]

Lloyd, unfortunately I don't have any 4 cavity molds in the 475 and 50 cals.  Even the 2 cavity ones I have eat up the alloy in a hurry,and I know I don't shoot as much as you.  Are you using LBT's molds for your 4 cavities?.  I have a few of  Verals 2 cavity molds, and consider them the best.

[Lloyd Smale]

I have lbt 4 caviy and a couple custom ballisticcast molds i had them make into 3 cavity mollds using 4 cavity blocks

[Gillette]

Good grief Lloyd!  I can't get anyone to even sell me wheel weights anymore
around my area!  Good for you.  Get all you can--when ya can. 
Happy casting and shooting.

[Lloyd Smale]

wws are getting real tough to find around here too!! Thank God for Camel on his fourm. Hes used his connections to find me a bunch lately.

Good grief Lloyd!  I can't get anyone to even sell me wheel weights anymore
around my area!  Good for you.  Get all you can--when ya can. 
Happy casting and shooting.

[Camel 23]

wws are getting real tough to find around here too!! Thank God for Camel on his fourm. Hes used his connections to find me a bunch lately.

Happy to help when I can. 

[ibfestus]

New to this forum but I am in the business of recycling lead acid auto and commercial batteries.  People are constantly dropping off wheel weights, soft lead, and other lead items for me to recycle.  I recently gave over 2,000 lbs of wheel weights to a guy just to get rid of it.  Seems the folks that buy my scrap batteries don't want wheel weights, linotype, etc.  I have to gather a 42,000 lb straight truck of wheel weights etc. before I can ship (I cannot ship mixed loads.)

Same goes for steel cased batteries.

I am located in mid Missouri.  If you are willing to pick up in the Columbia MO neighborhood, I may be able to help you.

[Lloyd Smale]

Hell that makes it almost worthwhile to pack up and move to Missouri

New to this forum but I am in the business of recycling lead acid auto and commercial batteries.  People are constantly dropping off wheel weights, soft lead, and other lead items for me to recycle.  I recently gave over 2,000 lbs of wheel weights to a guy just to get rid of it.  Seems the folks that buy my scrap batteries don't want wheel weights, linotype, etc.  I have to gather a 42,000 lb straight truck of wheel weights etc. before I can ship (I cannot ship mixed loads.)

Same goes for steel cased batteries.

I am located in mid Missouri.  If you are willing to pick up in the Columbia MO neighborhood, I may be able to help you.

[dubber123]

Man, thats a long drive from Vt. in a 53 Dodge, if I left now I might be able to pick up a load of wheelweights by late spring!  I have been trying to locate a recycler within a few hours that will sell.  The one I have found is in Mass.  and I guess state law won't allow them to resell any reclaimed lead.  If anyone has any sources for any reasonable quantities of wheelweights in the northeast I would really appreciated  hearing from you.  I've got maybe 1,500 lbs left, and that won't last forever.  Thanks.

[30hrrtt]

I have a few hundred pounds of pure lead and was looking for some lineotype to mix it with in the Milwaukee area.  Found some last week, only $3.50 a pound.  Quess I keep looking.

[Mikey]

I know this is probably 'old news' on this topic but when I used to look for linotype I could usually find it free for the taking at print shops and the like that still use the stuff and I guess they (those shops) are still around.  They use it for print and when the individual 'letters and numbers' start wearing out and giving fuzzy print, the shops get rid of them and order new.  HTH.  Mikey.

[Graybeard]

Now Mikey I sure hate to argue with you (ha as if I hated to argue with anyone)  But when linotype was in use all they did was toss the letters back into the pot and remelt them and cast up new slugs with whatever was wanted. That's what the "linotype machine" did it melted the lead, cast it into whatever letters were typed into a keyboard just as typed in. I've seen them in operation and my big melting pot is the pot from such a machine.

Now it might be that the larger type which was called either foundry type or monotype was done as you say as the linotype machines were not made for renewing them. But the composition of both foundry type and monotype is quite different than linotype with a far higher antimony content.

[jhalcott]

  LLoyd , make a few bullets and check the BHN . I got some new and old linotype and found some of the ingots were only about 18 BHN instead of the 21 that lino is supposed to be. A couple ounces of tin brought it back up to where it should be.