The Price Is Right: pewter edition

If that's actually pewter, very good price. Especially if those handles are solid. Ask for pictures of the stamps.

It almost looks like aluminum though.
 
I would post on cast boolits, they deal with it all the time.

My only concern is its aluminum unless it's just bad lighting, but even if you get 2-3 lbs of pewter it will be a good deal.
 
They're Pewter all right. $25 is to much. Especially if you have to ship it.

Check out your local scrap metal dealer.

One thing about Pewter, often it is worth much more as art or collectables than it is for the tin content. I recently found a bunch of Pewter artifacts in a barn that collapsed 35 years ago. A lot of the stuff was zinc but it was all worth more than scrap. I sold most of it at a recent gun show. The junque people snapped it all up. Maybe I sold to cheap???
 
I tried to get a consistent alloy using scrap. It is difficult. You need to know somebody who has a a machine to scan your unknown materials. Foundries and scrap dealers(bigger ones) have these machines.

Download the alloy calculator excel spreadsheet from cast boolits, it helps alot.
 
Tin is $10 /lb plus shipping.So if it is indeed pewter, that may be an ok price.you need a combined weight of 3lb. In that batch to make it break even with buying bar tin.plus figuring shipping.anything over the 3 lb mark is all the sweeter.
 
yomomma said:
European pewter can contain as much as 10% antimony.
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Most pewter has 5% antimony or less. 10% is very high, but even 10% is a poor source of antimony when you consider it will be diluted at least 10-1. Pewter is at best a residual source of antimony for bullet casting.
Casters use pewter for it's tin content, not for the antimony.
 
Your in Hamilton, go see Humminson about their lead. I've been there and seen the ingot's on skid's. My heart went all a twitter!
 
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