Pouring lead heads

Howdy gents! Been a while since I have been on. I have several questions. I've in the past 2 months have done well selling crappie jig heads. Still using my Palmer II lead pot. Using #4 sickle hooks for 1/32oz and 1/16oz. Here are my questions

1. Want to upgrade to a bottom pour lead pot. L:ee the way to go? Thinking the 20 pounder.

2. Had some lead a friend give me. Melted it and it looked great till I had to break them free from the sprew. It was hard! Found out it was 60/40 (tin/lead). Anyone use the stuff? Mix it with soft lead to get a better softness?

3. I have a big cast piece of lead the says North Western on it. What I can find it from Europe and used in stain glass. One guy said he thought it was plumbers lead. Can it be used? Too soft?

Thanks

I have the Lee 4-20 pot and love it, it drips alittle but that was because my lead was dirty I poured it all in lee ingots after cleaning it and now my pot works great

as for your window lead if you can dent it with your finger nail I would say it good to go, as far as mixin it with your lead /tin mix I would think it will work out but someone else might know better than me on that one

1 - Whichever size bottom pour you go with is fine - I know Lee's and love them!!!!!!!!

2 - If you know someone who does reloading TRADE FOR PURE!!!!!!!!!! If you can't you'll need to mix a lot of pure to a 60/40 mix to get it more pliable for cutting the sprues off. If it's pouring fine just use it up till gone but remember any heads you pour with that mix may not weigh 1/32 or 1/16th!!

3 - Take a really good look at the block again Does it say Northwest Lead Ltd or North Western Lead. Northwest Lead is roofing and North Western is stain glass material, which according to their site they have a natural lead or a coated lead.

The other way is use a propane torch and melt some off the block put in your hot pot and pour some jigs - let cool and break the sprue off. But according to the info I found on the web except for the coated stuff it's all natural lead it just doesn't say pure or different hardness but would assume softer.