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If I wanted to pay $200 for a press, I wouldn't be casting.
That's the whole point of casting, to me, to stop GIVING money to the commercial guys. Lead's gone up quite a bit, but 45acp bullets...

Thanks for all the advice.
I figure I'll try to hone out the sizer about 2 thousandths or so, and drop the sizer in a chunk of forged high-carbon steel I got off an old computer server rack and...

could I just use some sandpaper to grind out the inside of this press 2 thousanths of an inch?
Now that I'm thinking about it... 1/16" is .063, 63 thousandths, so the difference is pretty small with...

is there any way to anneal the bullets we've already casted to make them softer?

Will a .452 or .453 be all that much easier? what happens if we make them too big, is there such a thing?

I just started casting with a friend a few weekends ago, we've managed to get about 3000 45acp 200 grain bullets made so far with the advice and help from this forum.

Now, we've found another...

schutzen, you're right.
I'm in Kansas.

they're using it to paint our children's toys with. it's bad enough they kill their own children.

it's one of those things that ain't going down in price.
I started casting weekend before last, and now I'm all but out of lead/alloy with about 4000 200 grain bullets to show for it.

Lead/alloy...

thanks for the offer bigslick.
I'm not out to trade it off today, but thanks for your enthusiasm. I was interested in seeing if anyone would trade, and you answered that very well, along with users...

There's a fella that has offered me 200lbs of Linotype. He says it's in the same form as when he got it from the printing company so it's easy to tell it's linotype.

What should I offer for it? ...

alaskamike: not sure... Haven't loaded them up yet. Still sitting between other science fair projects in the freezer.

all: cleaning the mold didn't affect the performance either way. Tonight...

I may have to work up some sort of deal with my 4hole turret press.
Use a 3-die set, and set up the fourth hole with a buffer to shine up the bullet. Of course, I'm way too lazy for this, but I...

I'm casting 45acp RN bullets in a lee 6-cavity mold. The problem is that the bullets seem to stick to the mold with almost every cast. I have to actually push the bullets out of the mold!

Is...

pretty bullets!
Are those coated with the mix that you mentioned?

hell, I can't even get that far. Everyone here in suburban Wichita KS seems to think that lead is EPA regulated or "already has something worked out with someone"

Ok, I'll stop complaining now.

I'm 30 minutes from powder valley. I think I'm going to pick up a 25 lb keg of the stuff next time I'm there.

With that much, I may just have to keep it in the shed.

I'm thinking we're going to load up 50 rds of LLA coated bullets, 50rds of JPW COATED bullets, and 50 rds of bullets with just JPW in the lube grooves.... and run them through my 1911, cleaning the...

I'm new to casting, just finished my first batch.

All I have for lube right now is LLA, and a can on johnson's paste wax. I would like to use the JPW as it's cheaper, but it seems to have mixed...

I think I am, once again, over thinking this subject.
After reading a few threads about using johnson's paste wax, I think I'll go ahead and use the method of rubbing it in to each bullet.

Just...

I don't like the idea of having to buy a new top punch for every type of bullet I want to cast. They're about $15 each, and I'm doing this on the cheap. Hell, I'm using lee molds that cost about...

I've just finished casting my very first lot of bullets this weekend. Unfortunately, I got so excited about casting, that I forgot that I have to lube them.

I've investigated the options for...

thanks for the advice.

maybe my mold is bad!
I noticed that when the bolt wasn't super-tight there was this lead splatter between the sprue plate that stuck to the top of the bullets... essentially the bullets weren't...

I just started casting this weekend using a lee 6-cav I bought used off a fella here. I'm hooked on casting!

unfortunately, the bolt that attachs the sprue plate to the mold broke off when I went...

I have yet to cast a bullet, but plan to start this weekend. I have two sets of 6-cav 45acp molds that I bought used from a castboolit member, and they are pretty dirty.

Should I clean off all...