Sexy Lead Picture

[Cane_man]

nuttin like the smell of burning flux in the morning

[Bullwolf]

My family used to be in printing business back in the day. I inherited a large amount of mono and foundry type metal because of this. For years it was the majority of my lead casting, as well as my boolit casting alloy.

I wondered why it cast with a purple color for a long time. I had assumed it was just ink staining at first. I have seen a few threads about it here on Cast Boolits, and asked some questions about the color myself,

This picture from NOE is one of my favorites.
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...k-covered-Lino


And a few of my own cast purple boolits. On some it's hard to see the color in the pictures (my photographs are horrible) but if you saw the purple color in person, it looks nothing like roofing lead, plumbers lead, or wheel weights.

Here's some loaded rounds where I have wiped most of the purple color off the boolits while removing the tumble lube from the noses using a rag and mineral spirits.





They cast really shiny straight from the mould. If you work at it though you can polish off the purple hue with a rag or a paper towel, so I'm guessing it's some kind of surface oxidization.





And a diving belt I cast from Mono type lead, (top) next to old lead weight belt.



- Bullwolf

[Shiloh]

Thought I'd contribute a little

Now there's a nice pic!!

shiloh

[Outpost75]

Here is some more lead porn.

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[GLL]

Outpost75:

Oh Baby ! Now that is some good porno !

Lino in the buff !


Jerry

[Outpost75]

Unfortunately that pile is alot smaller now since that picture was taken....

But the pile of wheelweight buckets is a recent acquistion.

$500 for 13 5-gallon buckets worth is a good buy.

[robpete]

Wow! Now that's impressive.....

[jonp]

Lead porn!! Where's my popcorn at??

Wow did you beat me to that comment. That is one, beautiful giant rack of.....lead!

[ACrowe25]

So nice! Thanks for sharing!

[jonp]

nuttin like the smell of burning flux in the morning

Smells like victory!

[leeggen]

You know your hooked on casting when lead pics make you slobber.
Looks way cool and great pics.
CD

[MaryB]

And all I got today was 10 pounds of mono/foundry type... 25 more pounds coming.

[leadman]

The only way that lead could look better is if it was in my garage!

[Cosmiceyes]

Lead porn!! Where's my popcorn at??

Heck with that! Where's the lube? 's

[Boyscout]

Some typeset has really high levels of nickel in them and they are extremely hard for continued reuse by printers. The printer I buy my linotype from has a lot of blocks (?) that look like metal stamps, mostly engraving and art mounted on wood blocks.

[Down South]

Looks great.

[MT Gianni]

Sorry, that doesn't do much for me sexually. It is a nice stack of lead but that is all it is.

[DHurtig]

I like lead porn.