Rapier. Do you use linotype straight
or just to alloy wheel weights and pure lead?
Seems like current wheel weights do not have as much tin as before, so I add one pound of linotype to ten pounds of cleaned weights. I also add a three foot piece of 95/5 percent lead free solder (The type with silver content rather the one with copper content) and one third cup of magnum bird shot. preferably in 7 1/2 size or smaller. Bullet cast out right 14 BHN and by over treating and water quenching, will age harden to 30/31 BHN in about two weeks. That 50 percent harder than linotype, FWIW.
I'll use the water quenched for serious target workwith the .308 and 30-06 and in air cooled form for hunting loads, mostly in a 30-30.
I have enough linotype that if I could score enough wheel weights to clean up to make my alloy, I'd have a little over a ton and a half of my prepared "universal" bullet metal.
I'm workin' on it.
Paul B.