[SEL] How do I tell Babbitt from Lead?

[Judge Tommy Turner]

Alan,
    Possibly for "Recycled" to show it was used material?

Tommy Turner
Magnolia, KY


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>I still wonder why this chunk of "lead' has the R stamped into it,,,,,,,
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>Alan Bowen
>Williamsburg, Michigan
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>"P. Johns" <enginepaul at gmail.com> wrote: This may add to the confusion, or help in some cases.
>Type metal, as in printer's type is another lead alloy out there. Metal used for Foundry type is the hardest, monotype metal is next then there is linotype metal and spacing metal. All are mostly lead and melt somewhere between 250 to about 320 degrees depending on exact composition.
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>Foundry type metal has tin for hardness and antimony to counteract
>shrinkage. This used to be expensive, but with computers came obsolescence.
>I gave several hundred pounds to a fisherman that used it for sinkers and I suppose much of it is now gone or in scrap ingots out there.
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>Paul
>Typesetter - learned in 1960.
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