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Certified Pure Tin Bullet Casting Alloy (99.85% Pure) Approximately 2 lbs

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Adding Tin to casting alloy allows the lead to flow more easily and fill the mold more completely, for fewer voids in the finished bullet. It only takes about 2-3% tin content in lead to achieve this. Tin also provides a modest amount of hardening, however antimony is the primary ingredient used to harden lead alloys. Sold by the ingot, not by weight. Approximate weight is 2 lbs. per ingot.

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Notes:
Nominal Ingot Dimensions:

9" x 2" x 1.5" (L x W x H)

Pure tin provides only a modest amount of hardening (2.5), as its primary purpose is to provide for better filling of the mold

Special Note: In order to keep prices of casting alloy as low as possible MidwayUSA is aggressively seeking the best price on alloy. This means that alloy is sourced by different manufacturers so ingots received could be from different manufacturers.

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EagleCertified Pure Tin Bullet Casting Alloy (99.85% Pure) Approximately 2 lbs

4.7

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2/25/2010

(28 of 32 customers found this review helpful)

5.0

Great way to get tin at a ...

By Lee

from Shawnee mission, KS

Comments about Eagle Certified Pure Tin Bullet Casting Alloy (99.85% Pure) Approximately 2 lbs:

Great way to get tin at a fair price,( tip, use bolt cutters to reduce to smaller pieces)

2/25/2010

(24 of 33 customers found this review helpful)

5.0

Worked very well for ...

By Chris

from Moore, OK

Comments about Eagle Certified Pure Tin Bullet Casting Alloy (99.85% Pure) Approximately 2 lbs:

Worked very well for working with wheel weights.

2/25/2010

(140 of 140 customers found this review helpful)

5.0

Tin may be the best kept ...

By RJC

from Hartland, WI

Comments about Eagle Certified Pure Tin Bullet Casting Alloy (99.85% Pure) Approximately 2 lbs:

Tin may be the best kept secret of bullet casting. I've read in many books and magazine articles that expensive tin isn't needed, that you can cast better, cheaper bullets with straight antimonial alloys. Well, I've been casting for nearly thirty years - tried more alloys and casting methods than I care to think about, and I like a generous percentage of tin in my bullets. Tin's benefit isn't so much the slight additional hardness that it gives, but the way it breaks down the surface tension of your alloy. Your blocks will fill perfectly almost every time. You can cast at a lower pot temperature which gives a faster freeze rate for more production. If you carefully inspect and weigh your bullets to check for internal voids (as I do for everything except plinking loads) you'll find you have a higher percentage of perfect bullets if there's plenty of tin in your mix. An added benefit of tin is that you'll get less leading than from straight antimonial mixes - even between bullets of equal hardness. It's because of the crystalline structure of solidified antimonial mixes. It's not a cure-all, but depending on hardness, lube and velocity that thin grey "flash" leading that you sometimes see all the way up the barrel will often disappear with the additiona of tin to your mix. Try it just once. Add a full 5 percent of tin to your wheelweights, or add 3 percent to your commercial "magnum" casting alloy. If you don't get better bullets, faster and easier than ever before, I'll be surprised.

2/25/2010

(20 of 29 customers found this review helpful)

3.0

Good cast tin bars at a ...

By John

from Memphis, TN

Comments about Eagle Certified Pure Tin Bullet Casting Alloy (99.85% Pure) Approximately 2 lbs:

Good cast tin bars at a good price but I don't believe that Midway weighs the bars before shipping. You might get over 2 lbs. or considerably under. When they say Approximately 2 lbs. they mean it. I just ordered 10 lbs. and got 9 lbs. 5 ozs. but that's still a pretty good deal.

2/25/2010

(88 of 113 customers found this review helpful)

5.0

Works great for hardening ...

By Mike

from Berwick, ME

Comments about Eagle Certified Pure Tin Bullet Casting Alloy (99.85% Pure) Approximately 2 lbs:

Works great for hardening scrap lead and wheelweights.

2/25/2010

(19 of 19 customers found this review helpful)

5.0

Hello the fire! Just made ...

By Lawrence

from San jose, CA

Comments about Eagle Certified Pure Tin Bullet Casting Alloy (99.85% Pure) Approximately 2 lbs:

Hello the fire! Just made up 20 lb. of #2 alloy using 4 lb linotype, 5.5 lb pure lead and half pound of this tin and how sweet it is. The bullets are perfect, shine like a mirror and just barely mark with the fingernail, my way of hardness testing, and they shoot true. I just weigh the tin ingot, subtract the .5 lb and melt until I reach the new, reduced, target weight of the ingot. Excellent product.

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