I love to learn to ID elements and alloy.
I have experienced a lot with sparks and steel to ID which one.
I had never heard of your pencil technics, I m glad I came upon your video and added it to my arsenal.
I just purchased yesterday 5 .999 lead ingot and 5 Lyman #2.
I m going to get the pencils and experiment on them.
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I was just recently explaining to a young buck who thought he knew it all that not only doesn't he know it all, but he doesn't even know that there's things he doesn't know.
All of these tricks and things you explained were perfect examples of that, such as pencil testing lead to determine its hardness and what potential alloy it is - that's the sort of thing one doesn't even know that they don't know.
So thank you for that info alone - everything else was pure gravy after that.

Not only interesting, but Very useful. Thank you for teaching me this incredibly smart way to identify tin or lead alloys because i really needed it!

Good stuff. Good way to know what you are casting round balls with.

Thank you, I ordered 5 sets of pencils while seeing your video! It will be usefull here in Denmark!

Very interesting Daniel, and very informative. I am an electrician, scrapper, bullet caster, and always interested in learning more about identifying different metals. You said in the video that you were going to put your pencil hardness chart in the description. Is that posted somewhere? Thank you!

Great explanations. Thank you.

Thankyou for being so thorough

Good info! I'm always looking for these kinds of practical ways to identify materials. (I remember how thrilled I was to learn that vinegar could sort Al and Mg!)  It is Video cassette player or tape recorder fly wheels that I'm looking to conquer!  I don't have access to one of those metal ID, X-ray guns but I'm on the lookout!

Excellent tutorial, thanks.

Wow, this is awesome info, my father casts his own bullets and is gonna love this.

Great video. Fascinating information. Thankyou so much for posting this. Greetings from Melbourne Australia.

thank you for your useful and informative video. when i was a teenager l found that when l dragged lead metal on a paper it make a clear metalic line that I can write with it. it was very amazing for me to understand lead is softer than paper.

I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Thank you for the good info. Looks like I need to go pencil shopping!

Thank u SIR 💓

Great video.

you are a God. Such a good video.

Awesome video,gives a good idea of what your working with.
Thank you 👍

thank you so much!

Informative Thank you!