Pewter Bullets

[358156 hp]

Yeah, they wanted $14.00 alone for the creamer & sugar bowls. A week later I bought a complete coffee set at the Goodwill with tray and everything for $12.95. I was playing it straight with them, but I guess I stepped on their puppy or something.

 

[Brad]

I saw better deals than that at a local antique mall. I mean better than what you saw at the gunshow.
I have a reasonable amount of tin so I didn't buy any.

 

[Rick]

Your sure tough on those puppies, make them cry, step on them. Geez.

 

[Winelover]

I ended up using some old teaspoons I had in my toolbox as moulds.

I did the same with solder dripping, from my days as a Pipefitter. After finishing any job, requiring the use of copper pipe, I would pick up the splatter and melt it into tablespoon sized ingots.

 

[JonB]

I must have a bunch of metal scrappers in my area, It's so dang rare to find pewter anything at the thrift/junk/antique stores. I think I have 3 candle sticks in my garage, next to a pile of Lead scrap, awaiting smelting. Those 3 candle sticks were found at different times over the course of about 3 years.

Back to the OP's topic.
my first score of tin, was ordered from a CB member in WI, lead-free Solder that he cast in large muffin ingots. I remelted them and cast them in a Lee 250gr REAL mold...yeah, timing the sprue cut, taught me to not try that again. I also saved the sprues for the benefit of having various weights.
ANYWAY, the lesson I learned was implemented the next time I got a batch of Tin (beer cooler line that time), I just poured the melted Tin into traditional ingot molds (1lb if Lead) and I only poured the ingots to less than 1/4 full, so they are thin like a saltine cracker.

 

[Ian]

I got lucky (intersection of Opportunity and Preparedness) all three times the guy in Florida put up his muffin ingots of assayed, recycled 63/37 electrical machine solder for sale at CB and coughed up enough pennies to buy a small flat-rate box of them each time. It was a good deal on good stuff and I still have most of it.

 

[fiver]

I snagged a medium flat rate box of reclaimed 63/37 solder spatters [55 lbs]
nobody else would touch it for the 100$ they wanted.