Friend found these while metal detecting. Any idea what it is? We were guessing old iron sights but maybe not?

Well hell yeah, thanks guys!

this thing eats those, drinks molten lead and shits literal stereotypes

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Not sure, asking him right now

>linotypes.
ok, what is a linotype?

Jow Forums here, those are ancient jewish circumcision mini-guillotines

Can I mount a red dot on it?

>linotypes
>What letter did he get
my bet is on P E E

dayum, got em

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He isnt sure what letters, how could we tell what letters?
All we know is they were they were found which is California

Damn it, I thought they were 19-th century lightning links or something.

In paonia colorado, where i served an LDS mission, there was an old blind printer.
He wanted to retire but couldn't because his equity was all tied up in printing machines.
He tried to get me to buy him out.
Shoulda done it. Nice town, if you can stand the smallness.
It was a hard-right reagan republican town until sometime in the 70s.
A lot of out of town hippies showed up for the rainbow gathering, which was held there, and never left.
Now, the town is 50/50 coal mining salt of the earth conservatives and absolute flower-children.
interesting place.

The blind printer had us demolish a small shed for him.
Under the shed, i found a knockoff zippo lighter from the 60s, i'd guess.
Took my switchblade and carved into the chrome these words:
> BEHOLD MAKE WAY FOR THE IMAGE OF GOD
I read ancient jews used to tell each other that angels proclaimed that in front of humans, everywhere they went.

Anyway, one day i was riding my bike with my companion.
Two stoner kids on the side of the road yell at me, > DUDE do you have a lighter?
so, without ever getting off the bike, i pulled the lighter out of my pocket and threw it to them.

I wonder if that stoner kid still has it ...

see linotype machines have proprietary rails.
you'd need an adapter

I don't know what linotypes are, but I found some more information.

circuitousroot.com/artifice/letters/press/compline/typography/matrix/index.html

>what linotypes are
picture a typewriter with a huge engine attached on the back.
> be linotype operater
> punch button on normal-looking keyboard
> it shoots down OP image related
> lines up like 25 of the little things OP found
> when you get a full line of them, you pull a lever
> dumps a lead allow on the line of type.
> lead cools
> forms a stereotype: a line of text
> stack up the lines, rub ink
> print newspapers/bibles/Tijuana bibles

linotype allow used to be highly valued by bullet casters, because it's much harder than pure lead

so user just found some really good bullets if he casts his own?

> alloy
oops

comfy story fren

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no, these are something else. Like copper or bronze i guess.
think of these like molds for the lead.

thanks

What OP found are the 'molds' (for lack of a better word) used for linotype casting, not the casting alloy itself.

Hi, I'm here from /b/. DESU DESU DESU.

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Well shit! Thanks my dudes

I actually took a letterpress printing class (and I own two platen letterpresses) but my class didn't include a Linotype. We used a Ludlow for type casting.

Anyone else /letterpress/ here? Everyone I've met in the hobby has been chill as fuck.

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sad uwu can't notice buldge

I've done block printing.
> be me
> 10th grade art class
> linoleum+knife+ink+paper
> pretty based medium
> do a design
> skellington yin yang
> kinda edgy but whatever
> all projects drying on table
> thot i had already been beefing with pushes past me
> looks over all the classes prints
DANG WHO DO THIS WON
> random chick: it was user
> thot turns to me: i guess it's nice

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which direction is his pecker pointing?
i can't tell if i should be impressed or not

>thot i had already been beefing with pushes past me

>>niggertown

They could be nephilim ritual tools from those found throughout the Mid-West, but please note nephilim were white, red hair, giants, and had two rows of teeth and sometimes even horns. The nephilim were not limited to giants, but all were subservient to the giants.

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all the other anons are mistaken.
you were correct in your guess.
Those are indeed old iron sights from an old FAMAS rifle-pistol.

Linotypes. He found the dump pile of a old print shop.

But harder-than-lead alloys are bad for bullet casting.
That is why people are always concerned about zinc contamination in their casting lead- because it makes the bullets too hard, which causes excessive wear on your barrel.

harder than pure lead is basically a necessity.
antimony and tin are a must.
I just read some about zinc. it's a problem, but not for the reasons you think

RETURN THE SLAAAAB!
OR SUFFER MY CURSE!

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Fuck that shit scared me

done plate etching, acid etching, lithograph, linoleum, and wood print. Sure it's art, but there's a very technical feel about it all, especially since you have to keep in mind the medium is unforgiving if you fuck up and you got to plan ahead a few steps.
I wish I had the space to have a small press and some rollers to get back into it. That feel after the print pressed out from the big press machine and you see all fresh indentation and ink on the paper.