Hi having a problem finding pure lead to cast round ball with. wheel waights are to hard from what i I have read. If I cant find pure lead how can I take the tin and atimy out of the w.w. material. thanks for any feed back, Dave T. :hmm:
Try this guy, lead guy he has pure lead,fisher king said:Hi having a problem finding pure lead to cast round ball with. wheel waights are to hard from what i I have read. If I cant find pure lead how can I take the tin and atimy out of the w.w. material. thanks for any feed back, Dave T. :hmm:
41Aeronca said:Hmmm, I've wondered how do you test for purity of lead, other than sending it off to a lab? How hard/soft it is? Melting the stuff down and see what skims off? :hmm:
Scott
That makes sense. I shoulda thought of that. Been a long time since Chemistry lab. :redface:Stumpkiller said:You can also weigh the balls. A pure lead ball of .490" will weigh X. (I believe it is 179 gr, but I don't recall offhand). If your balls measure .490" but only weigh 97% of X you don't have pure lead. Most impurities weigh less than lead.
bird shot is not pure lead. It has antimony added.Blackfoot said:Ok what about lead bird shot?
You can get that for about $25.00 for 20 lbs or so.
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