BACKWARDS, "Thermite" MAKES aluminum Oxide, You START with Iron Oxide and Pure Aluminum and end up with Iron and Aluminum oxide.
Aluminum Oxide, usually sold as "Alumina" is used as an abrasive.
Type: Posts; User: AllanD
Forum: Our Town
BACKWARDS, "Thermite" MAKES aluminum Oxide, You START with Iron Oxide and Pure Aluminum and end up with Iron and Aluminum oxide.
Aluminum Oxide, usually sold as "Alumina" is used as an abrasive.
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
To remove brass disassemble all other components and soak in HCL for an hour or two.
Hydrochloric Acid attacks brass in ways that have to be seen as it attacks the Zinc in the alloy and leaves...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
Another possibility is a CRACKED Carbide insert, those are rare, but make a mess of the brass when it happens
IF it is a Carbide die and it has a cracked insert ring, replace it or try for a...
Forum: Our Town
My personal close encounter with a skunk does not involve getting sprayed...
and so far as I know the skunk lived a long and happy life.
One night I though I saw my black cat stretching against...
Forum: Our Town
There is a family story about the time one of my uncles shot a skunk he saw near the henhouse in the late 1950's . my grandfather believed the easy way to train everyone to the idea that all guns...
Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
The Astringincy supposedly drops after the first frost
Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
I don't actually cook anything that doesn't get a heaping spoonful of minced garlic added to it!
Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
The greening of the yolk is a harmless result of a simple chemical reaction, which forms Iron Sulfide.
it is an indicator that you cooked the eggs too long!
Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
Their common name is "Russian Olive", but their "Official name" is "Canadian Silverberry".
And I cannot imagine someone from Minnesota considering them an "Invasive Species". Their natural range...
Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
I absolutely Love every member of the cabbage family EXCEPT Kale and Kohl-Rabi.
I had a can of beets laid out for a planned dinner once and my girlfriend at the time commented she didn't like...
Forum: Classics & Stickies
I've never been inclined to cast bullets of soft thermoplastic, but I've used similar techniques to cast bullets of paraffin (canning or candles) wax and intend to eventually take it to the next step...
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
RCBS and others used to make a case forming die to create a "belt" on a 30-06 case, as part of a set to convert 30-06 cases to 240 Weatherby Magnum.
I once held that particular die set in my hand...
Forum: Our Town
My girlfriend accused me of having anger management issues after I started cursing at my phone while we were getting lunch at Arby's.
My phone decided to notify me that Google Play services had...
Forum: Our Town
After your second attack you will seriously consider getting careless with axe or chainsaw.
But the drug that works best is stuff called Colchicine, unfortunately most people just getting their...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
In the 19th century one practice to "Harden Lead" was to add Mercury.
is it possible that there was any OLD recovered lead?
Mercury boils at 674'F
Even some old shot was so alloyed...
Forum: AirGuns
It would be much easier to buy dry gas at the auto parts
I have tried experimenting with adding a tiny amount of Kerosene to the back of the pellet with an insulin syringe (my father's), but I...
Forum: Classics & Stickies
I've always heard that as an Italian joke, the guy at Sears sells Luigi a chainsaw when he comes into the store to buy a file to sharpen his hand-saw and tells him he can cut down and cut up 20 trees...
I used the Lyman Cutter when I first started but quickly switched to the RCBS swaging tool when I found out about it...
Forum: Our Town
Worrying about how others amuse themselves is what a lot of people DO.
Like worrying about how another man likes his steak cooked is of infinite fascination to some people.
However I am forever...
Forum: Our Town
So did I, I FL-sized and de-burred the flash hole of 350 7mm REM MAG cases
Forum: Our Town
A decade ago I had a tomcat who's favorite play toy was a baby copperhead!
I'd take one away from him and he'd take off and be back with another in 10min or less.
Oddly that cat never bothered...
Forum: Vintage Ammo
Those are inert training projectiles from a 40mm Grenade launcher
Same rounds are used in the M79, M203 and the auto-loading gun used in helicopters
I have a couple inert 5" projectiles that...
Forum: Casting Equipment
I have two Lee Six-cavity molds, my first one was for .451 round ball, because I found casting for my big percussion revolver to be tedious after using a four cavity Lyman (#0 Buck) mold to cast...
Forum: Casting Equipment
I bought a replacement inner pot off of ebay for less than lee wanted for one then I bought the valve pin and valve spigot from Lee, it is my intention to mate them using valve lapping compound...
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 |