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Type: Posts; User: Danderdude
Forum: Our Town
If you're dead set on silver, https://comparesilverprices.com/
What you cannot forget is precious metals are simply a store of wealth. They are not an investment, will not make you rich, and when...
Forum: Gas Checks
Y'all are missing the purpose of gas checks. It's not to separate the lead from the heat or pressure, but to act as a torque ring. The rifling has to impart many tens of thousands of RPM spin and...
I started loading specifically for 7.5x55 Swiss and have not fired a j-word since. It was a very minimalist set up just those few years ago. Ever since, I've worked on a cohesive firearm philosophy...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
There are times when the frugal soul inside all of us reloaders and casters starts yelling louder than your conscience.
This is your conscience speaking. SAFETY FIRST. You don't know what this...
Yep, I noticed that and installed them all correctly. I've tried all pin/slot combinations and tried putting the pins in both sides. Still no luck.
tomme boy, thanks, at least I'm not alone here.
I finally got to try out my new Mihec brass 9mm cramer-style mold yesterday. However, I fiddled with all the pins and couldn't get the thing to close all the way. I ran a few test pours and sure...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
HF Red is working for me right now. I'm on course to have 1 lb cover about 2500 mixed 9mm and .45 bullets.
Gear:
Applied via HF Electrostatic gun
Bullets stood up on Reynolds Wrap Non-Stick Foil...
Forum: Our Town
I'm a 911 dispatcher in my day job (and working every day until next year) and in the one city of the four in the county without 24/7 animal control units, the officers use their backup guns on...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I may be remembering incorrectly, but in my research I believe I found that those are made for shipping single injections of Molybdenum 99, which decays to Technetium 99 with a very short, and very...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
You overheated it. Zinc contamination will actually change the consistency of the melt to something closer to juicy outmeal.
Overheating the melt will cause relatively rapid oxidation of the...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
There's no writing at all, and the Lee hardness tester puts it at dead soft unfortunately, as I just found out.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I picked up 540lbs from the local scrapyard yesterday.
Originally I was just picking the best roof flashing and vent pipe covers, since the WW were mostly steel and zinc. I filled up the cart...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I have a new CZ-75BD Police that was giving me fits. The barrel slugged at .356 but I was getting problems with chambering until I realized that the throat of these is only .03" long. Seating the RN...
If you're like me, you'll spend quite a bit to save a little money.
I'm still young, so it's a long-term investment.
Forum: Cast Boolits
I wouldn't feel comfortable putting any kind of acid on aluminum, personally. Hydrochloric and sulfuric eat at the passive aluminum oxide surface, exposing the highly-reactive bare metal to oxygen...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Sir, your wanton display of willful ignorance is embarrassing. Please, PLEASE, for the betterment of yourself and your customers, get educated on the crystallography of lead alloys and the physics of...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Heat treating is a MAJOR part of bullet casting. There are only two ways to control hardness: heat treating and uniform alloying. With tin and antimony each 10X more expensive than lead per pound,...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Yeah, and just write off the $200 entry fee on a maybe? There are enough people on here with HT lube that I shouldn't have to, when all it takes is cooking 5 boolits extra hot. There are also people...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
OR the bullet was simply too soft, as a result of annealing.
So I ask again, what happens to Hi-Tek when it's heated to 450F/230C?
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Because I believe that 200C anneals away all of the tempering that water dropping adds.
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To get that back, especially for rifle boolits, you need to ramp that temperature back up to...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
I've gotta ask again, what happens when you heat this coating to the 450F / 230C range?
At what temperature does an alloy lose its tempering and become annealed?
Anybody with an oven, hardness...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
I'll reiterate, too, my best tumble coating with VHT came from putting on a light "primer" coat of epoxy + lacquer thinner at a rate of 1cc of thinner per 3 seconds of spraying, letting that set up,...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
It's the only economical way. If you stand each up and spray them, it not only takes longer than Alox tumbling, but you waste 9/10th's of the can spraying your table. If you want pretty at any cost,...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Alright, I've skimmed this mile-long thread twice and still have a few rather important questions.
1. What happens if this coating is overheated, say into the 450F (230C) range?
2. At what...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
On a whim I stopped by Advance Auto and grabbed a can of VHT gloss and VHT matte, along with a can of lacquer thinner from Lowes.
My little bit of experimenting this evening with tumbling was...
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |