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I've got to finish some auto repair before I can take time to cast, but at least I can read a little here before bed lol

Looks like quite a few members added since way back when.

Life got in the way of my casting experience. Used to be quite active here and at my casting bench. Now I will be again.

My love to you...

Actually at the moment I have other things holding me up. Once I have some free time, I'm pretty sure I can do what I need to do using sandpaper

I appreciate it Rick, that is where I'm stuck. I think i can do a good enough job of it just with sandpaper. Just need to to take the time

LOL maybe. I checked them about a month ago and they actually might still be viable. Obviously this project has gone nowhere, I really ought to do something with it.

No you didn't offend me. I thought it was funny, actually it reminds me of myself when I first started hunting around for a way to fix the thing. I encourage you to send bulltipper a pm. He's all...

WAIT! Aren't you going to verify it first?

These days I'm using a lee pro 420. I had trouble with the thermistat and gave up. I gave the old melter to bulltipper and he fixed it- lead somehow deposited itself within the thermostat, shorting...

Welcome to the forum Sasquach

Is Janeane Garofalo your daughter, or daughter-in-law??

Thanks!

As far as the grit of my abrasive, it's pretty fine stuff I'll see if it's got a label.

Hoping to hook up tomorrow (Thurs) with my buddy, we have a coinciding 2-hr window. If...

What did you do as far as prepping the metal?

I haven't forgotten about this guys, I'm just trying to coordinate a time to meet with my buddy who has the air compressor so I can sandblast the surfaces.

I'll send beer. Just tell me where to send it. Seriously. Man does not live by bread alone.

I prefer to preheat them to the same temp as I'm casting. I got a hot plate for under $20 at walmart, which easily does that. I use a precise digital thermometer with a thermistor. The hotplate...

OK so next is to prep the metal surfaces. I'll be using a friend's compressor to blast the parts with aluminum oxide. We're going to wait for these San Diego storm systems to do their thing, this is...

Progress to report tonight. I shrunk the marpat pic in half and made all my stencils.

I have a picture, but at the moment photobucket's down for maintenance so that'll have to wait a bit.

I'm...

Sagacious: Excellent info. Thank you for causing your face to shine upon us.
Trinot: Thanks for starting a really good thread. Will you please resize all your pics to no bigger than 600x800?

As...

Well thanks very much guys.

Thanks. I slugged the cylinders, the blackhawk is right around .358 while the security-six is a uniform .357 thtroughout.

Is there that much leeway? I'm kinda new at reloading for revolvers, I didn't realize I had so much disgression.

all that I've seen looked like they were seated nearly flush but not quite

I've been casting nice shiny .357 mag wadcutters. They weigh about 143 gr with 16:1 PB/SN. What's the proper cartridge overall length? It's a Lyman 358495. To be used with Ruger blackhawk &...

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Mihec 452-200 cramer, but actually they weigh about 191 gr.

Here's the 1911 I shoot these through. Slugs out to...

got the pot heating up right now in fact