"Where is the KABOOM????? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering KABOOM??"
Type: Posts; User: Zymurgy50
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
"Where is the KABOOM????? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering KABOOM??"
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
A little electricity never hurt anybody, just wait until you get lit up by a close lightning strike............
Forum: Reloading Equipment
From the 3rd edition
start gn 51.4 @ 2500fps
max 60.4 @2900fps
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
What kind of license? a DBA will set you back $20 at the county courthouse.
Forum: Cast Boolits
To test for zinc put a drop or two of hydrochloric acid on the ingot. If it bubbles it indicates the presence of zinc, no bubbles is good to go...
Forum: Our Town
Or putting the flare nut on backwards.........................
Forum: Our Town
It is a primer pocket crimp removing die, PP= primer pocket. 71 means it was made in 1971
Forum: Single Shot Guns
MPH to FPS where A=mph A x 5280 divided by 3600 (60 x 60)
60MPH = 88fps or 1mph ~ 1.5 fps
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
You ought to catch up with this guy and present him with a good bottle of Scotch for the tin.
Upon google searching Hewitt Detroit it seems that the company produced alloys containing Radium. I...
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Equal parts rubbing alcohol, 3% hydrogen peroxide, and Murphys oil soap. 1 wet patch, followed by 2 or 3 dry patches.
Forum: Casting Equipment
Buy a thermometer. The only time you might get too hot when smelting is if you would have some zinc in the mix.
Pure lead melts around 650f, alloys will melt at a lower temp. Zinc will melt around...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Just make sure you have some ventilation going when you dump it in the pot. It will smoke a bit and it can be a bit irritating to the lungs.
Forum: Cast Boolits
After 15-20 firings it will almost cease to exist......
Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
Try turning 80,000lbs of cream into 40,000lbs of butter and the same amount of buttermilk 5 days a week. I used to work in a dairy that packaged 11 different brands of butter and it ALL came out of...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Take a look at the RCBS ladle too. Unless your 45 slugs are 350+gn each it is more than large enough, and not much bigger than the lyman.
Forum: Our Town
Try that with full power loads instead of the wimpy "lite" loads and I will be impressed.
Forum: Cast Boolits
Put a fan so it is blowing cooler air over the motor. Increase ventilation to help cool the surroundings.
What you are looking for is a continuous duty motor. What we need to know is frame size,...
Or someone with a lathe and a welder could make a golf ball cannon, fire regular dimpled golf balls and then fire golf ball that have had the dimples filled in with bondo,,,,,,,
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
"Water safe" silver bearing solder contains NO lead. Most of the water safe solder is 95-97% tin, 3-5% antimony and .5-1% silver. Treat this as pure tin for alloying boolit metal.
Please note...
Forum: AirGuns
The state of Michigan says if it is a handgun (less than 14" barrel with rifling) you must fill out 4473 and take possession from a FFL.
Yes, this applies to pellet pistols with rifled barrels, but...
Forum: Cast Boolits
The nickel plating generally tends to chip off when trimming cases, not a problem with most handgun calibers.
Some people will claim that nickel plated brass tends to scratch steel (not carbide)...
Forum: Our Town
When I still used gas fired coleman's I would wrap aluminum foil around half of the glass, going from top to bottom. Easy enough fix to not get "blinded by the light" when fishing from a smaller...
Forum: AirGuns
Do you want to see what a std model looks like from right after WW2? When Crossman bought up a shipload of milsurp CO2 tanks that were intended to inflate life rafts? I have my grandfathers...
Forum: Cast Boolits
That sells for around $30/lb. Get as much as you can and send some here :)
Forum: Swaging
Do clean out the point form die, I use a q-tip with alcohol. Try lubing just the bottom half of the seated core.
If you are getting lube dents on the finished product you are using too much lube.
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 |