iso heet referenced above is in walmart and auto parts stores, cheap too
99% isopropanol
http://www.imperialinc.com/msds0055120.shtml
Type: Posts; User: cohutt
Forum: Swaging
iso heet referenced above is in walmart and auto parts stores, cheap too
99% isopropanol
http://www.imperialinc.com/msds0055120.shtml
Forum: Swaging
go to soapgoods.com or the chemistrystore.com for all your lube raw materials. I think I've seen liquid lanolin there in addition to the goo type I have.
isoheet in the gas treatment shelves...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Could be anything....
My overly subjective, dirt-floor-lab, low-tech alloy analysis method:
When presented with a mystery ingot I always pull known alloy ingots from the stash to compare it...
Forum: Cast Boolits
i wipe with a rag damp with mineral spirits before coming inside and doing the dish washing soap or gojo scrub down.
To avoid it in the first place when I have to handle anything with this...
Forum: Group Buy Results
50/50 pure/ww, air cooled.
I ran the Lyman (bottom pour) at close to 800, preheated mold and second pour produced good boolits. As with other HP molds, I found that a wide open pour wasn't as...
Forum: Classics & Stickies
I used kroil on my new mihec 44 hp mold this afternoon to clean the HP pin arms that slide through the mold. I had to work on this mold a little to get it to close properly (didn't take too much). ...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I used kroil on my new mihec 44 hp mold this afternoon to clean the HP pin arms that slide through the mold. I had to work on this mold a little to get it to close properly (didn't take too much). ...
Forum: Group Buy Results
Mine cast great with hot 25:1 alloy after things got warmed up.
I do have an issue though when sizig- there is a lot of play in the punch shipped with the mold in my RCBS sizer before I tighten...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
I stand the bullets on their baase as they come out of the sizer with Lar's - if you let them sit for a little while and dry a bit the sticky problems are gone for the most part. I have some thick...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Before iyou go to any trouble, if you are using Dillon seater die, flip the stem over and try the other side. one end is rounded and one has a flatter profile. What seems logical for your bullet's...
6.5-6.7g of unique is a nice shooting plinker- 240g lead runs around 730- 770 for me depending on gun
The RCBS 300g GC mold gives an old of 1.70 in the only groove. (top 2 pics) These scoot @ 1300fp with 21.4g of H110 through 6 1/2" barrel
NEI 320g pb gives 1.75 in the low groove; nice mold, big...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Cardboard - stacked in layers, keeps lube from drying sticking to next boolit and getting everything messy. Cover up, keep dust off.
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Forum: Cast Boolits
Made from 100% mis-matched scrap lumber and other scavenged materials.
LOL, beauty is definitely limited to the eye of the caster.
Forum: Cast Boolits
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Forum: Group Buy Archives
I'm in for MiHec mold #2. email to be sent
Forum: Classics & Stickies
Yeah I am spoiled, that is a mega dutch oven I was given for chistmas a couple yesrs ago- 22qt iirc.
Forum: Cast Boolits
Mine dropped 453 as advertised once it warmed up and mr thumbs here got the HP casting motions in rythm.
Forum: Classics & Stickies
Wow it has been a while since i checked in on this thread. Glad to see there are others who are sick enough to want to go bermining.
Some time back I went back to the berm a did another run but...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I've never had issues with regular primers with 110.
Forum: Classics & Stickies
Flip flops were put on after I did the deed.
i had finished a mini smelt of some berm nuggets, turned the pot off and taken off my canvas bib/chaps. I had the shoes on below (only time i have...
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 |