Just using my Harbor Freight Drill Press and a 10 dollar bathroom scale. If you don’t have a drill press you could use a big “C” clamp as well. To get the Brinell Hardness Number of a lead ingot.
Full disclosure : You should really use a ball at the end of the drill bit or at least round it off. I just did not have a trash but to grind up.

Here is the link to the Brinell Hardness Number Calculator I used.
http://www.gordonengland.co.uk/hardness/brinell.htm

Using a Pencil to find out the hardness of a lead alloy. This is useful in reloading. Buying a hardness tester is better and way more expensive.
But this will get you in the ball park.

Lee Precision Lead Hardness Test Kit. http://amzn.to/28RK1jT

Staedtler Lumograph Graphite Drawing and Sketching Pencils
http://amzn.to/28XFMCg

Get the chart here http://tinyurl.com/z6gmgxl
The music is “So Bueno” by The 126ers From the You Tube music library.

The Chart can be gotten here.