Steve,
I also scored a lot of wheel weights years ago. I mix 1 lb wheel weights to 3 lbs pure lead to make a harder alloy for all of my breechloaders.
A friend has the Cabine Tree hardness tester and said that mix is almost a 30-1 lead tin alloy.
Side note - (this part was told to me years ago) Wheel weights have all kinds of things in them besides lead and tin, but because there are only 3 wheel weight manufacturers in the country and one of those is Sears (which you seem to never be able to get), wheel weight metal makes very consistent alloy for casting.
I'm too cheap and disorganized to try to buy tin and make custom alloys for each gun.
Bob Anderson
Company C, 1st Michigan Volunteer Infantry
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