We have blue skies today and the water is down on the streets that I drove through. There were still a bunch of abandoned cars that made it more difficult to get through since they were abandoned in...
Type: Posts; User: grumman581
Forum: Our Town
We have blue skies today and the water is down on the streets that I drove through. There were still a bunch of abandoned cars that made it more difficult to get through since they were abandoned in...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Lead is around 708 lbs/cu-ft, so you're looking at needing to hold around 0.565 cu-ft. I would suggest that you make it a bit taller than the minimum necessary so that you have room to stir it...
Forum: Casting Equipment
From an aspect of the ratio of the cost of parts to amount of aggravation in installing / replacing the parts on a vehicle, I would have to say that changing the inline fuse under the panel of my...
Forum: Our Town
I was down in the Florida Keys a few years back with my jet boat. I had taken it out to do some diving and ended up getting a piece of crab trap black polyester rope sucked into the impeller. It...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
They're a pretty good size. I made a holder for them out of some rebar...
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?107444-Homemade&p=2372084&viewfull=1#post2372084
Here's how the...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Around here, the AC would be running most of the time during the summer and when the compressor (either AC or air) starts up, there's a greater current draw. As such, I would put them on separate...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I know the feeling... I just tell my wife that there must have been a mix-up at the hospital and someone didn't maintain a proper chain of custody record.
Then again, I also claim that when...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
If you don't want your dies rusting during the summer, remember to air-condition it.
Forum: Our Town
I would prefer to invite the friend over and allow him to use my equipment, but he provide his own components. Of course, when you come over to a person's house and he is nice enough to allow you to...
Forum: Our Town
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Forum: Swaging
I'm surprised something that size can produce that much pressure. It just didn't look like the leverage was there for creating 16,000 pounds of pressure.
Forum: Our Town
Live cockroaches taste pretty disgusting and bitter.
(unfortunate personal experience)
Forum: Our Town
I was up at the local HEB grocery last night and they had a large display with a lot of different pumpkin beers. I thought about it for maybe a quarter second and then said, "nawh, I don't think...
Forum: Our Town
I tried a 6-pack of No Label Brewery's "Don Jalapeno Ale" once. It's better than probably any of the mass market watered down beers like Bud/Miller/etc, but it just doesn't do it for me. I like...
Forum: Our Town
And probably shouldn't contain rice either. :(
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
The problem with using clear is that there are a couple of indoor ranges out there that do not allow you to shoot plain lead bullets and a clear coating would make them think that was what you were...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Well, there is *another* solution... At least if your firearm will handle it... Use an unsized round ball for your bullet. Since it's a sphere, it's not really possible for it to go in crooked... :)
Forum: Our Town
At least with DSL, you have a hard wired landline and as long as you have one of the old non-AC-powered hard wired phones, you will have phone service even if the power goes out. I keep at least one...
Forum: Our Town
Some of us can remember dial-up as 1200 baud... OK, I can also remember 300 baud modems, but I try REALLY hard to forget them.
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I've heard of people using JB-Weld to create a custom nose profile for the seating plug.
Forum: Our Town
Just think of it as a "nostalgic re-experiencing of dial-up speeds".
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Who said that they *stay* that clean? It's quite possible that for many of us, our reloading benches were only that clean right after we first built them. :)
I've recovered spilled gunpowder...
Forum: Classics & Stickies
Ask me how a compound fracture and a severed limb feels... Yeah, I've had some memorable motorcycle wrecks...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Considering the fumes that are given off and how some people don't even want to do it in a toaster oven inside the house, you probably don't want to do it in your regular oven unless you and future...
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 |