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Here we are now.... lol

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It never does end...
Im taking the engine out today. I prepped for it yesterday and check this out. These timing belt idlers are in good shape right?...

Sorry dude, but I really cant spare the cash right now. I blew my car up today. Its on the jack stands and I spent my whole afternoon tearing it apart.
(Ironically it happened while I was on my way...

Had an eventfull day at the range today I forgot to crimp all my pistol rounds. I loaded up the pan lubed bullets first, the round literally popped out of the gun. It went to the cardboard target and...

Cool! My dies are always rusting... I just let em rust : ) On the outside at least. When It gets bad I hit them with the 0000 steel whool and there clean in 10 seconds.

Crafty, thanks for the tip : )

I think a cutter would have helped a lot... I spent too much money trying different things I am going to try these methods now, and I will get back to pan lubing sometime down the road.

I put them in the oven at 250 for a lot longer than 5 minutes.... I tried various methods and none yielded satisfactory results.

Too much work to hand lube :P I will tumble lube these, and if I want to pan lube I will switch over to a different style. Hopefully I will have a range report for you guys tomorrow.

: )
-Dave

Terrible, terrible experience with pan lubing... Lol
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I think I would...

Ill try these, and if the LLA doesnt work out ill give another tumble lube a shot. : )

No pun intended

It was a brand new barrel...think I should take it into work this afternoon and hit it with the flitz?

The gun is a Springfield Armory Mil-Spec
I think I am only changing one thing at a time right? With the exception of dropping .5 grains of powder I am only changing the amount of lube used.
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This was the first shooting session right from the box. Heres the deal. Loaded up some ammo tonight. No JPW so I did 3 different loads
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3 miles? Boo hoo :P

Its a 35 minute drive to my range. I learned early not to leave stuff its usually not there when I get back :D

Here are my LLA boolits
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I am going to do this
*50 rounds of the boolits lubed like the picture above (More LLA)
*50 rounds heated...

I only clean them so if I drop them they dont get dirt stuck to them and bring it into my gun. I will go out sometime this week (Wednesday maybe?) and try the JPW and heavily Aloxed rounds. I will...

Leading problems with my first batch of .45 ACP rounds...

Heres the low down

*Metal used*
A mixture, 3 muffin ingots of WW alloy to 1 muffin ingot of 1 stick on WW alloy

*The Boolit*
Made...

That pinch trim die is outstanding. Ingenuity at its finest : )

I stand corrected :D

Alox isnt time consuming in the least. I am very new to casting, I have tried pan lubing and it didnt work out very well. Even if it did...THAT is time consuming. For aloz, I toss the boolits in a...

Sit to pour, stand to shake out the boolits when casting(Over and over)

Sit in a wheelie chair to reload my ammo. I never stand for that...forget it...

Very cool, thanks guys. I would much rather know what I can and can not do around the melt and things like that than not know, and be paranoid about it.


A lot of good links and information...

Why is the dross so bad?


I do smelt and cast outside, however the lead and and boolits are stored indoors. I do all my sizing and other boolit work indoors as well, however, I wipe down my...

Aside from heat, and other physical damage can someone tech me how to be safe when dealing with the lead?

Do I need a respirator? Does the lead enter the air when I am casting and smelting?

Can...