COWW composition

Boolit Mold Join DateFeb 2013Posts7

First time smelting coww so I had an ingot tested to see the composition. Here is what I found:

Pb 91.97
Al 2.21
Sb 1.81
Si 1.29
Zn 0.91
Ti 0.80
Sn 0.74
P 0.28

Does that seem right? I think the Ti came from paint on some weights. It filled the mold well and made decent boolits for my first time casting.

WOW.

That sounds like some serious recycling been going on.

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First reload: .22 Hornet. 1956.

Where is John Galt?

(If you don't know, you owe it to yourself to find out. )
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change the P to As.
the aluminum seems a bit high.
and the Si would probably be Bi. [as normally read]
i'm not seeing any Cu, Indium, or calcium which is normal to see.

it's all an educated guess,,,, till the trigger is pulled.

the more i find out about shootin boolits, the more it contradicts everything i ever learned about shooting jaxketed.

Boolit Mold Join DateFeb 2013Posts7

What you see is what the X-ray refraction read. Only thing in the pot was sorted coww's.

With silicon (Si) so high, was there sand in your ingot. It seems kind of high.

Not disputing the numbers that you got, it just seems odd from what has been found before.

Boolit Mold Join DateFeb 2013Posts7

Not sure how, I washed the coww's with mineral spirits and cleaned the oil out of the pot with rubbing alcohol. Doesn't seem like a right mix to me, but not sure how it got there/I messed it up.

The very reason why we never all get the same results. It is those stinking re-cycle boobs. Nothing matters for a WW as long as it meets balance weight.
Zinc stick on's get melted in with everything else. I think those things are the ruination of our beloved WW's.

Smelt your lead at a lower temp and you won't have the Zn melting. You can scoop it out with the crud.

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