anyone need lead/linotype metal/etc

we used just such a concoction to make the replacement bearings for a windmill. 15 years on it is still giving good service.

Stealth Pilot

How bout local pickup?

Local pickup is even better - I've contacted you directly

Lynotype?

How much do you have?

Gunner

"Human nature is bad. Good is a human product  A warped piece of wood must be steamed and forced before it is made straight; a metal blade must be put to the whetstone before it becomes sharp. Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles." ?Sun Tzu  

Linotype lead has (I believe) antimony added to it. That metal expands while it cools so it completely fills the typeset dies when cast. Also tin I think as a hardener. Been a long time since I watched those gentlemen working.

When I was in junior high, I had to set up a printing press using discrete type in industrial arts. I bet that press is long gone. Heck they even had a linotype machine. Most of the guys took typing just to be ready for that course. I took typing because I thought there was a future in computers.

I feel sorry for the guys that learned the linotype machine. How quickly technology changes.

Wes

-- "Additionally as a security officer, I carry a gun to protect government officials but my life isn't worth protecting at home in their eyes." Dick Anthony Heller

Hope you get some Gunner - I'm getting my Dads. We already talked.

I just have to get my income tax money returned from RITA that was stolen by the IRS (different division...).

Mart> >

probably a ton or two

I'll eventually need 1200 pounds for a keel, but shipping would cost an arm and leg. I'll just melt down an old keel if possible...

Well gee, if my Brother In Law still owned that Rubber Stamp Shop, he might have taken you up on that. Probably the last running collection of revenue operation Linotypes, Varitypes and Ludlows in the San Fernando Valley.

IIRC, it's the antimony that boils out after many uses.

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Cool! Im up for some. How much for 800 lbs, if I come pick it up and do all the work?

Gunner

"Human nature is bad. Good is a human product  A warped piece of wood must be steamed and forced before it is made straight; a metal blade must be put to the whetstone before it becomes sharp. Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles." ?Sun Tzu  

Correct.

Gunner

"Human nature is bad. Good is a human product  A warped piece of wood must be steamed and forced before it is made straight; a metal blade must be put to the whetstone before it becomes sharp. Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles." ?Sun Tzu  

We went through a keel and the wrong metal. It would be best to use one or two old keels.

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