[nemesiss45]

I was at my dads today, and was talking casting with him. I have some WWs and range lead I collected to melt. he gave me a spare seaco electric pot to melt lead for ingots, then directed me to a stack of cans full of "linotype" to melt into the WWs to harden the alloy up. I filled a 50 cal ammo can and headed home. now I was tossing chunks into the pot and I was eyeing the linoytpe, and I suspect there may be mixed alloys in there. there are some soft flexible strips, some hard clean edged chunks, and lots of small single letter typesetting pieces. I tried bending one and it snapped in half. if this normal for linotype? I assumed linotype would bend like lead, but I have never worked with it. I am concerned something else might have made its way into that box.

a google search tells me typesetting alloy comes in a few forms, but is all lead tin and antimony (and one type may contain a little copper)... but I'm still curious if anyone on here has used thistype of alloy as source metal.

thanks