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Winger Ed, I hadn't thought along the lines you mention (a Howdah pistol;) you may be on to something with that. Same holds true for the shotgun connection Hogtamer mentioned. A 10 gauge bore is...

Wow! I haven't been here for over 5 years. Which is about how long it's been since I cast any boolits.
But never mind that.
While walking recently, I found along the sidewalk the object depicted...

I'll do that. Thanks.

The color repro in the pic is not spot-on. Th e color is just short really red, a slightly rusty red.

Blending was by weight, measured to the precise 1/10th of an ounce on an athlete's digital...

Casting again after a 20-year hiatus and new to making lubes.

I mixed up a batch of Ben's Red Red per the original recipe and instructions. It turned out very good as to texture and consistency,...

Taken straight from the refrigerator to the workbench, the lube sticks slid right out of the pipe without effort.

As expected, the 1/4-20 all-thread did not want to pull out but my...

I'm new to the forum and to making lube (Ben's Red, in this case) and the PVC idea occurred to me, so I built these.

No surprise to see its been done. That rod is 1/4" all-thread which the lube...

The new parts came in. A thorough cleanup and fresh paint have given me this.
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And that requires a good source for lube. Which is me, as it turns out, whipping up a load of Ben's Red Blend...

Outpost, that is precisely the (lino)type of good information I was seeking.

Thank you.

Pilgrim

40 years ago I scooped up over 100lbs of lead from an indoor LE range that I used regularly. Most of it I've cast into ingots.

Because the agency issued each officer 2 boxes of hollow-base, 148gr...

Jon, the plug was easy to tap out with a 1/4" brass rod I had handy. Give the plug the first tap, a firm one, on one side. Tap with increasing firmness until you feel it give little, then begin...

Well, I got the sleeve out and it did finally require knocking out the bottom plug so that I could take a brass drift and tap the sleeve out from bottom to top. Just wasn't enough purchase anywhere...

Thanks for the advice, GP. I have updated linkage; in fact the press had it when I got it.

As to the kit - if I can knock the plug out through the sleeve it'll give me another avenue to remove...

Well thank you, Jon. Your reply clarifies the thing for me and the picture looks pretty much like what I envisioned. Now the problem remains of how to get that sleeve out of the lube chamber. I guess...

In light of my discovery of the "sleeve" I refer to in my previous post, I'm wondering the same thing. I can imagine some enterprising guy with a lathe machining the nut in my picture and getting...

More info, more questions

I just got nearly all of the old grease out of the reservoir and I see something in the bottom that makes ??? Over my head.

It is a very thin lip (looks like brass)...

Well, yeah,but . . .

It's not a seal plug - it's properly threaded to act as a nut and it served in that capacity for more than a few years, even without O-rings. Apparently, with a tube of grease...

I just got my old (purchased about 198?)Lyman 450 out of a box I put it in back in about 1991, the last time I did any casting. It was well and truly gunked up but I'm fixing that.

Taking it...