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			Rapier. Do you use linotype straight  
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
	
	  or just to alloy wheel weights and pure lead?Seems like current wheel weights do not have as much tin as before, so I add one pound of linotype to ten pounds of cleaned weights. I also add a three foot piece of 95/5 percent lead free solder (The type with silver content rather the one with copper content) and one third cup of magnum bird shot. preferably in 7 1/2 size or smaller. Bullet cast out right 14 BHN and by over treating and water quenching, will age harden to 30/31 BHN in about two weeks. That 50 percent harder than linotype, FWIW. I'll use the water quenched for serious target workwith the .308 and 30-06 and in air cooled form for hunting loads, mostly in a 30-30. I have enough linotype that if I could score enough wheel weights to clean up to make my alloy, I'd have a little over a ton and a half of my prepared "universal" bullet metal.     I'm workin' on it.   Paul B.  | 
		
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