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dave_j Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 262 Location: Nevada desert Joined: Jul 12^th, 2005	case hardened lead Dec 23^rd, 2014 at 7:46pm	Print Post
	i have a question about some lead i have acquired. when cast into ingots it turned colors and it looks just like a good job of case coloring. does anyone know or can guess(?) what this is.??? i have heard that lead can contain cadmium but beyond that no clue as to what is going on. i figured this is the best place for an answer thanks

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frnkeore Frequent Elocutionist Online Posts: 7769 Location: Central Point, OR 97502 Joined: Jun 16^th, 2010	Re: case hardened lead Reply #1 - Dec 23^rd, 2014 at 7:48pm	Print Post
	Dave, If the color is blue and it's soft. It means that it's pure or very close to it, lead. If it's blue and hard, I have no clue. Frank

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Cat_Whisperer Frequent Elocutionist Offline No 1, 9.3x74R Posts: 3996 Location: Mountains of Virginia Joined: Apr 17^th, 2004	Re: case hardened lead Reply #2 - Dec 23^rd, 2014 at 11:29pm	Print Post
	colors come from a few trace elements surfacing - not uncommon.

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JerryH Frequent Elocutionist Offline ASSRA Member #10876 Posts: 1339 Location: Easton, CA Joined: Nov 9^th, 2014	Re: case hardened lead Reply #3 - Dec 24^th, 2014 at 1:26am	Print Post
	Dave, That's what I shoot. Give it a try. You may be surprised. I always am. JerryH AKA Jerry_H A Proud German Immigrant Descendent

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Aonghas Ex Member	Re: case hardened lead Reply #4 - Dec 24^th, 2014 at 6:40pm	Print Post
	dave_j wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2014 at 7:46pm: i have a question about some lead i have acquired. when cast into ingots it turned colors and it looks just like a good job of case coloring. does anyone know or can guess(?) what this is.??? i have heard that lead can contain cadmium but beyond that no clue as to what is going on. i figured this is the best place for an answer thanks Often just a surface effect where the regular pattern of ridges caused by cooling acts as a diffraction grating. If you want really hard bullets, throw a bit of crap diecast metal into the melt and skim off the resulting scum/slag. The result is dead hard: I saw a 12 guage ball of it shot into a hawthorn stump (very hard). It penetrated about two inches, and was undistorted when cut out of the wood. I wouldn't recommend using it in a rifled barrel. -- Aonghas


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dave_j Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 262 Location: Nevada desert Joined: Jul 12^th, 2005	Re: case hardened lead Reply #5 - Dec 25^th, 2014 at 1:49am	Print Post
	thanks for the info my lead is very soft and it casts very cleanly into minie balls still has that case color though i think i will harden it up a bit since my loads are about 1600 fps

	ah heck AA#9,4227,300MP, as long as it goes bang
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