it’s a mix of lead, tin, zinc and antimony, len.

and yes you can make your own fittings. if you want to start easily the best thing is to get hold of some RTV (room temperature vulcanising) rubber from such supplyer as Alec Teranti of Reading in Berkshire. it’s quite expensive  though.

you can use old Type setting letters from a printers as your white metal if you can get old of it, or buy proper white metal for casting, again from suppliers (listed on google.) I was once talking to an old friend Frank Hinchliffe and beleive it or not, his supply of white metal in his early days of Caldercraft where the tune pipes off an old church organ that he had bought from a demolition company and was working his way through a large pile of the stuff???

You’ll need some mould release spray and some old block lego to make your moulds, along with some plastecine to put your masters in.For an old melting pot you can use an old soup ladle from out of the kitchen , but don’t tell the missis where it’s gone, and for gawd sake don’t use it again for yer tomato soup???

Teranti do a small booklet about white metal casting to help.

Once you get into it it is fun and enjoyable.trust me!! I wasn’t a used car salesman?

yeh, but for clumsy old sods like me, Paul who tend to knock their fittings when hanling them at the lake side, that bendiness is just the job….saves a lot of re building.take it from me.

          A few model shops stock items from the Hobby catalogue which is quite good,I tried one thing from there, which was a heatproof silicone mouldingliquid and a moulding medium which I believe is the white metal you asked about    . They also do a mail order from their website http://www.hobby.uk.com

I tried the moulding using their metal ingots and the silicone rubber mouldsbut I think I tried to make parts of my castings too thin, andthe metal set before it got to all the parts I wanted it to go.  Their catalogue is not cheap, but it is invaluable for selecting materials for your project, and you can’t fault the range of items they have

Hi Neil

No idea how much p/kilo but it melts at 450deg just like white metal and contains the same basic metals such as tin so I presume that weight for weight of the base materials the cost would be about the same.

Paul

http://www.carnmetl.demon.co.uk has a lot of very useful information about white metal and pewter casting + prices etc. This firm on this website can provide a casting service.
P. Freshney