Substituting Wheel Weights

Alstep

Member
I'm just about out of WW. For years I've shot 50/50 Pb/ww in my pistols. I've got plenty of Pb and Lino. What would be the proportion of Pb & Lino that would be equal in hardness to Pb/ww?
 

JonB

Halcyon member
Without loading up the alloy calculator spreadsheet...
Sb is the main thing adding hardness to COWW, and it has about 2.5% Sb.
We know that, typically Lino has 12% Sb
so 4 to 1 will get my near COWW.
so 8 to 1 will get you near 50-50 COWW/Pb
 
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fiver

Well-Known Member
3 parts lead to 1 lino will give you 1% tin and 3% antimony.
that's about as close to WW alloy as you'll find.
 

Petrol & Powder

Well-Known Member
Using a lead calculator, 5 pounds of pure lead and 1 pound of Linotype, will get you 10.6 BHn
Using 6 pounds of lead and 1 pound of Linotype yields a BHn of 10.3
Using equal parts of wheel weights and pure lead will get you 10.1 BHn
 

CWLONGSHOT

Well-Known Member
Fiver beat me to it. That is the situation I'm in............too much pure, on hand. So I purchase lino, from Roto Metals, and mix accordingly.
Same here... but I use superhard, bottom line I am in same scenario, I have soft just need "need" hard.

Super hard comes in 2# ingots that I melt i to LEE ingots using the 1/2# size. Then I "season" my RF lead to hardness desired.

CW
 
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