I just got a hold of a bunch of spent R134a tanks. If anyone wants one, in the central Texas (Austin) area come see me.
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4382/36611303084_dff993ebab_c.jpg
Lotsa...
Type: Posts; User: OnceFired
Forum: Casting Equipment
I just got a hold of a bunch of spent R134a tanks. If anyone wants one, in the central Texas (Austin) area come see me.
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4382/36611303084_dff993ebab_c.jpg
Lotsa...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Yeah, I don't plan on melting them. If it's not explosive, I'm just going to toss them.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Well, I don't shoot muzzle loaders / old style black powder guns. But the lead will melt and I did figure the wax would be great as flux. :)
Are the large bullet projectiles safe to simply throw...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Picked this up from a friend. Total is 36 lbs. The clear plastic tubes have several cast bullets in them, caked with a dry flaky wax. They are murder to get out of the tubes, so I cut one open to...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Picked up a 75-lb bucket of WW today. Half of a 5-gallon bucket of mixed weights from a source new to me - a local junkyard that's been around forever.
18 lbs were steel
30 lbs were MC / MICRO
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Forum: Reloading Equipment
I thought this was interesting. Saw it on CraigsList here in the Austin area.
http://austin.craigslist.org/zip/5522816805.html
In case it gets scooped up & deleted, here's the whole text in...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
And BangerJim is one of the people whose posts I followed. :)
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Steel mixer + brass is extremely loud. I plan to put some sort of truck bed liner inside my metal mixer to reduce noise and cushion impact vs steel mixing blades.
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
The mats / trivets are very similar. The ones above are rated to 450 - got that from the Ebay seller, who took it from item description he has.
Since I have a convection oven, I was hoping to...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Haven't shot any yet Desertbuck. These are my first cast in 223. Still need to be sized & gas checked but my FreeChex III is ordered. I have primed, trimmed LC brass waiting to be assembled.
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
OK, got my first set of range ammo done in HF black. I was guesstimating 300-350 and it landed at 352.
I took the ones on the left in the cookie tray...
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Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Here's my first pass.
Since this was my first time using PC for any use, I tested it out on the cast boolits I had rejected & culled out. So these all had wacky problems such as wrinkling,...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
And they work. 20 minutes at 400 in my Moulinex Moulin-air convection oven and the silicon trivet came out with no marks or melting. The black marks are the powder coat color I used.
Shoot I...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Hey all
Thought I'd bump the thread a bit. I found a 3-pack of silicon trivets on Ebay for just $0.99 with free shipping. They appear to be the same as the much more expensive ones but they are...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Pot is for bullet mold work only. Only ingots or sprues go in there. I have fluxed a little bit with wax as I went. What do you see in particular re: debris? The old bullets vs the new ones were...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Heat & speed were definitely a big boost. I cranked the pot up to max and re-ran most of what I had done yesterday. BIG difference.
For starters, I got MUCH shinier boolits. They also seems FAR...
Forum: Cast Boolits
All good feedback. I have prepped the mold with a bit of paraffin wax on the surfaces and around sprue holes but not the cavities nor inside the holes. Did not smoke the mold. I did heat it by...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Yeah I found a lot more wrinkles than I first perceived. Gotta get that mold hotter. But I also got a lot of dis-colored boolits and a smattering of uneven bases. I will be re-smelting a bunch for...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Here they are in all their glory. I haven't gone through them yet to see how well they came out but I think I'm in real good shape.
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Forum: Cast Boolits
@6622729
Let me know what you think of the gas check maker.
OF
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
@dragonheart
What temperature can the cheap ones handle? What dimensions on the hexagons?
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Shoot. I thought I linked the image. http://www.lamsonsharp.com/product/honeycomb-hotspot
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
I found this one on Amazon, then looked up the manufacturer direct. It appears to be imported from China, but the company is here in the USA.
158747
It's good up to 675 degrees and available...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Point me to the threads about them, and I'll write it all up.
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Hey all
Did we ever put together a single sticky post containing a shopping list of all the items you'll want to assemble to try Powder Coated boolits?
It would be a link list, but I think with...
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 |