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...
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Forum: Our Town
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...
Forum: Our Town
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...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
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...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
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,...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
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...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
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...
Forum: Casting Equipment
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...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Outpost, that is precisely the (lino)type of good information I was seeking.
Thank you.
Pilgrim
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
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...
Forum: Casting Equipment
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...
Forum: Casting Equipment
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...
Forum: Casting Equipment
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...
Forum: Casting Equipment
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...
Forum: Casting Equipment
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...
Forum: Casting Equipment
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)...
Forum: Casting Equipment
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...
Forum: Casting Equipment
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...
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 |