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|    Jim Wilkins to David Billington    |
|    Re: mineral processing thread    |
|    30 Jul 25 10:45:16    |
      From: muratlanne@gmail.com              "David Billington" wrote in message news:106cupp$3598s$1@dont-email.me...              >All good work. Does anyone have any ore for antimony, then with the copper       >and tin you can make some Britannia metal (modern pewter), for sheet it's       >normally 92-6-2 tin antimony copper.              I salvaged some scrapped 95-5 Sn+Sb solder from the trash at work when they       rebuilt a set of heatsinks for temperature cycling GM ignition modules. It       can be cast into work holding fixtures in wooden molds without charring them       as lead casting does, so I made a vee block that can be drilled into. When       bent it makes the "tin cry".       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_cry              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaster_mold_casting              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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