NooneOfConsequence wrote on Jul 9
th, 2018 at 7:52am:
If your goal is to learn more about metal casting, pewter is great. If you plan on throwing it all away, sell the pewter and go buy some lead fishing tackle... or look on YouTube for chemistry methods (Cody’s Lab?) of isolating the lead from the silver, or get some lead wheel weights from a junkyard... or ask around for free dead lead acid batteries and carefully remove the lead and neutralize the acid. Either way, the silver in pewter seems like it’s worth selling unless you are slinging at werewolves
Most of my pewter is Selangor 97, which seems to be roughly 97% tin with copper and antimony.
Of course, I do have other pewter objects that I don't know about that I have hacked up into smallish squares and placed into several zip-lock bags, so there might be some with silver content.
Suffice to say, I got most of my pewter for about $2 at the salvos, So I can spare a few pieces to throw around. I'll likely do jewelry making though, rather than making a bunch of glandes from them.