5 gallon bucket of rad dripping's!
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182 gr is surprising. I imagined they would be much heavier. I never seen one so I had this picture in my head of a massive ball. I will be using a 45 70 mold (when it arrives from NOE) that is 350gr. .50 balls I thought, wrongly, would be bigger hmm interesting.
4 hrs for 30lbs, meh..... I might have gone and bought 10 lbs of tin instead.
It is somewhat amazing ( and a bit comical), the lengths we will go to, to get something to shoot down range.
However, I did spend a couple of hrs sorting thru 3 5gal pails of wheelweights to get about 300lbs worth a couple of yrs ago. Strictly because the price was right---free. Wasn't the first time doing that either.
It is somewhat amazing ( and a bit comical), the lengths we will go to, to get something to shoot down range.
However, I did spend a couple of hrs sorting thru 3 5gal pails of wheelweights to get about 300lbs worth a couple of yrs ago. Strictly because the price was right---free. Wasn't the first time doing that either.
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How was it analyzed? XRF?
That would be the XRF.
We've got two at work, but they aren't calibrated for lead/lead alloys.
That really sounds interesting. What would one of those things be worth? Once the alloy was known could the hardness be determined by the constitution of the alloy?
I'll ask at work today.
We use them in the open pit to determine if we're in ore or waste rock. You need to be licenced to use them, can fry your balls off pretty easily with one.
I thought it would be in the thousands but not $35,000 top end. I guess like any highly specialized tool it is going to cost large. I run an ion scanner at work and can't imagine what that thing is worth. Would the tech that runs the machine, where you work, test your ingots for you? During lunch break of course.
Our units aren't properly calibrated for lead/lead alloys. Already tried that
I was getting really wonky numbers, like 61%lead, 12%tin for a 20:1 lead/tin alloy.
