Lead & Linotype for sale.

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Rice Farmer

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Helping an old friend sell his lead (200# of plumbers lead) and 400 # of Linotype. All are in ingots. He sold his casting machine. Was to far to ship the lead to the buyer.
Would have to be in northern Calif. to be profitable for all to make a deal.
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GRMPS

GRMPS

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Rice, we need prices and maybe a county/city in N calif would be helpful.

You can ship 68 pounds of lead/linotype for $15 in double boxed well taped Medium Flat rate postal express-mail boxes, I recently sold 1,200 pounds of linotype that way but I stayed with 50-pound boxes -- (easier for fat old men and postal workers to move)
 
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Rice Farmer

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GRMPS said:
Rice, we need prices and maybe a county/city in N calif would be helpful.

You can ship 68 pounds of lead/linotype for $15 in double boxed well taped Medium Flat rate postal express-mail boxes, I recently sold 1,200 pounds of linotype that way but I stayed with 50-pound boxes -- (easier for fat old men and postal workers to move)
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Thanks for the help, will get with my friend see what he wants to do. He is in Grass Valley, Ca, I will probably be handling it for him, I'am at Willows, Ca. 75 miles north of Sacramento, on I-5. Chico, Ca is 32 miles to the east. The ill faded Paradise that burned up is just 10 miles the the east of Chico.
 
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Rice Farmer

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Roto Metals is selling Pure lead, (99.9%) for $2.99/#, freight included.
I believe plumbers lead is more like 40:1
Haven't found a recent price for Linotype. I'm open for suggestions.
 
GRMPS

GRMPS

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check lead sales on the forum to get an idea of the price. The linotype I sold was in type form so people were willing to pay more for it. We don;t know you or your buddy so those bars could be almost anything without testing
 
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Rice Farmer

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GRMPS said:
check lead sales on the forum to get an idea of the price. The linotype I sold was in type form so people were willing to pay more for it. We don;t know you or your buddy so those bars could be almost anything without testing
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Will check what is the exact form of the ingots, my Linotype are in 30 or 33#bars.
called him and the linotype are in 1# ingots.
My old friend is in his 80's and a nationally known Gun Smith. I know that doesn't mean anything to you. He welcomes anyone to test the bars.
 
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PaladinHill

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I have 600 lbs of linotype I got from a retired printer. About 100 lbs in type and the rest in 3 lb bars. What is the going price for linotype?
 
CZ93X62

CZ93X62

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A lot of Rotometals' prices include "free shipping", so that figures into the pricing scale as well.

I last bought Linotype about 5 years ago from a young man and his Dad to help him finance books and tuition at U.C. Irvine. I gave $2.00/lb. for what turned out to be REALLY GOOD Linotype metal, 200# was all he had left, and I snagged all of it. I still have about 150# of that left. Does that stuff ever cast nice bullets! Harder than woodpecker lips, and harder than needed for bullets, but it casts BEAUTIFULLY.

My most-used alloy for the past 20 years+ has been half Lino/half lead, AKA 92/6/2, Taracorp, or Hardball alloy. One thing that Linotype casting taught me (and Lyman #2 alloy casting reinforced)--Loverin bullet designs THRIVE upon the added tin in Lino or #2 alloys. Now when I cast Loverin designs with the 92/6/2 "default" alloy, I add 2% pure tin from Rotometals to sweeten the melt and enhance fill-out of those little tiny drive bands.
 
RBHarter

RBHarter

West Central AR
Burial at sea ? Its sure to sink properly .



Under things you didn't know you didn't want to know , N Carolina not only allows burial at sea but has options for caskets and the ol' weighted sail cloth sack ......which is interesting because it calls specifically for sail cloth .
 
CZ93X62

CZ93X62

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I read a few days ago that both Marie Curie's corpse and her notebooks are so irradiated that both are contained inn fully lead-lined containers, and the half-life of that radiation is calculated at 700 years. And I thought drug lab work was hazmat stuff. I stopped glowing in the dark in June 2008.
 
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