OnceFired
10-23-2013, 01:05 AM
So over the summer, I was up in Missouri. I had brought my reloading materials with me, and they were in a storage locker right next to where I lived in my RV.
I was working in that storage unit every day - and only a couple days out of the several months I was there did it get what I would call hot.
But look at what that heat did to one of my bullet sizer containers.
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3786/10434120725_84f02d5255_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93660723@N05/10434120725/)
2013-10-13 17.14.56 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93660723@N05/10434120725/) by OnceFiredLakeCityBrass (http://www.flickr.com/people/93660723@N05/), on Flickr
Apparently the plastic container had tipped upside down in the box it was in, allowing the Alox to leak out of its bottle. I found a huge wad of brown goo inside the plastic container. That would have been fine, on its own. Messy, but salvagable.
But as you can see from the photo, the Alox and the plastic didn't play nice in the heat. The plastic is ballooned, and undoubtedly quite weak, so I don't trust it to hold a bunch of lead any more. Time to replace it.
I had no idea the Alox + heat would eat away at that plastic like that. Note to self - do not take a hot bath in Alox. Ever. No idea what might fall off.
So the real question is what kind of brush do I need to use on my die to get the Alox off of it without damaging the threads?
OF
I was working in that storage unit every day - and only a couple days out of the several months I was there did it get what I would call hot.
But look at what that heat did to one of my bullet sizer containers.
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3786/10434120725_84f02d5255_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93660723@N05/10434120725/)
2013-10-13 17.14.56 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93660723@N05/10434120725/) by OnceFiredLakeCityBrass (http://www.flickr.com/people/93660723@N05/), on Flickr
Apparently the plastic container had tipped upside down in the box it was in, allowing the Alox to leak out of its bottle. I found a huge wad of brown goo inside the plastic container. That would have been fine, on its own. Messy, but salvagable.
But as you can see from the photo, the Alox and the plastic didn't play nice in the heat. The plastic is ballooned, and undoubtedly quite weak, so I don't trust it to hold a bunch of lead any more. Time to replace it.
I had no idea the Alox + heat would eat away at that plastic like that. Note to self - do not take a hot bath in Alox. Ever. No idea what might fall off.
So the real question is what kind of brush do I need to use on my die to get the Alox off of it without damaging the threads?
OF