Has anyone tried mixing hard and soft lead for pouring jigs? I've got a lot of hard lead laying around just taking up space and thought it might be a good way of getting rid of it.
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Has anyone tried mixing hard and soft lead for pouring jigs? I've got a lot of hard lead laying around just taking up space and thought it might be a good way of getting rid of it.
Yeah, it will work just fine. I have a large supply of tire weights and when I melt down a large quantity of soft lead I will mix in a couple pounds of tire weights. Everything comes out fine.
Thats what I was thinking but sometimes my thinker gets me in trouble.:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by jigsbydirk
I have been mixing 50/50 and it works. But 60/40 would be better. that is 60% soft lead.
I need to come up with some more soft lead. I think I have around 40 lbs left and plenty of the hard lead.
Pete
I mix printer's lead (about 1/2 way between tire weights and pure lead as far as hardness goes) with soft lead about 50/50 and don't have any problems. In the past, I just used printer's lead (my dad was a printer for the local paper). The only trouble I had was with large sinkers having wrinkles on the outer surface.
Musta been old lead. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by PanMan_VA
Does anybody make a starter kit for jig tying like they do for fly tying ?
The paper quit the typesetting process back in the 70s or 80s. My uncle and father bought all the left over lead to make sinkers. These days, I'm down to recycling 16 ounce and 20 ounce trolling sinkers. One of those will make a lot of 1/16 ounce heads. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by IBNFSHN
The last few original pieces were poured a few years ago.:(
Hey sticksteer, BPS sells a starter kit with everything you need to get you going, and a pretty good instructional video.
i use about 80/20 in mixing lead 80% soft,a little hardness maks the jig shine brighter a little longer.