[Beladran]

So i my never ending quest of brain farts i decided to make my own "hardball" alloy..

From left to right: Lino, WW, and Superhard(40%antimony)
Assuming WW is 2% antimony and .5% tin and the rest lead. I need to get these numbers to about 4% tin and antimony to make hardball.

What i do is i take my lee 20lb pot and fill it 2inchs from the top with WW (15lbs +/-) then i add 6 lino sticks and one line worth of the superhard.. Results are rather nice. My mold fills out great and the boolits are a slightly different color than straight WW boolits. I tried to take a picture of the two but my camera dont have a macro feature so they just look grey and fuzy = (. My boolits cast about the same size as straight WW(.359-.360) but they are lighter by a grain. by the numbers this should be about 15 on the bhn chart but i need a tester to verify.

Note: you can make hard ball by blending pure lead with lino 1:1 but cheap lino sources is slowly drying up.

 

[SubGunFan]

My understanding is the following........... (approx. because things change)

WWs: 95.5% Lead, 0.5% Tin, 4% Ant.

Linotype: 85% Lead, 4% Tin, 11% Ant.

My 85% WW and 15% Lino mix works out to...........

Lead: (95.5 x 0.85) + (85 x 0.15) = 93.9%
Tin: (0.5 x 0.85) + (4 x 0.15) = 1%
Ant.: (4 x 0.85) + (11 x 0.15) = 5.1%

93.9 + 1.0 + 5.1 = 100%

My old cast mix of 75% WW and 25% Lino had a higher tin %, but as we know, linotype is hard to find these days (and high $$$) and I need to stretch my stash as far as I can..........

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[captain-03]

What you gonna use it for? A little too hard for most pistol boolits??

 

[Beladran]

I think um gonna cut my lino in half an see if I still get good fill out

This is for my 5.7 capt..

 

[Beladran]

My lyman cast book actually says run straight lino in 38/357... lol them some expensive boolits

 

[captain-03]

5.7 should work ..... them some "little" boolits!! Could get a lot from a pound of alloy!!

 

[Hammer]

That stuff should be good for rifle bullets.