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Obviously I misunderstood what "Test" was meant by the test section.

Several years ago I found a website that listed the commercially available 209 primers that tested from a straight bore how far up the barrel a shell with just a primer would push a piston, the...

Aw heck, whatever I said I'm sorry. I can do my experiments and production without causing troubles here.

See you all later, keep yer powder dry!

FLY, you read something into text that the writer (me) never intended. I'm sorry you took it wrong, but "You see this is what I've been talking about" seemed too harsh to me, and I tried to gently...

The most doubtful process it seems to me is that of turning the compressed solid into granules of a specific size. I'm sure using the big end of a baseball bat or a hand press roller (hammer?) will...

No, I don't see that being the case here , I simply asked about tumbling powder and the use of graphite. I haven't "tried" it although I do believe that businesses that make tons of powder per year...

The ball tumbler turned the components into a dust so fine it's like a solid that falls apart when touched. I took the mix out after the no moisture advice and put it under a heat lamp to dry it out....

I wished I'd have read more caerfully Indian Joe, I read in one account of a manufacturer that they mixed with up to 7% moisture, not sure what the 7% was of though, 7% of ambient atmospheric...

OK, I have about 1 lb of mix tumbling in a Thumler's Tumbler Model B, with 73 solid brass 5/8" balls. The components were weighed on a gram scale and everything except the sulfur pre tumbled (It was...

I've seen many mentions of cast bullets used as tumbling media, but yesterday I found a bar of brass in the metals area of the shop and cranked up the CNC and made it into 5/8" diameter balls. There...

I guess I'm forced to buy charcoal then, the choices here are really pine (From crates we get bars of metals in) and fir, also, there is some kind of trash wood that grows around every logging...

I love the way all the "Gonna kill yourself!" guys faded out.

I am concerned with safety though and batch size has to do with that. The big killer powder mill explosions went along with tons of...

Ah! Like this!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYk0ROpEMqw

When I saw youtube videos of guys using Fly's puck maker I knew pressing was the way commercial powder is made, and looking into historical methods I came upon a website that showed a vertical...

Make a ring die in the lathe out of medium steel, with tapered entry, so that it is a .001" interferance fit. Lube it up with Moly Z Kote and press the barrel into to it, it will swage the bulge...

Yes, thanks for all the information, and responding to one who is obviously such a noob compared to many of you guys.
BTW>

"Never load a primed shell without a safety socket" WTH is a safety...

It hadn't occurred to me to check other calibers. Others also had such advice on the packaging?

A thought just occurred to me, 1918 was still wartime for a while, maybe it had to do with salvaging brass for the war effort?

Hi, this is just a question I had, wondering why Remington .45 ACP boxes made in 1918 had a panel with this advice;
"NOTICE
As soon as possible after firing, De-Cap the shells and
throw them into...

Similar to "regretting", wished they had a larger mold.

Great looking casting pot!

Docone, (And anyone else who has ideas)
I think I have some zinc in my wheel weight pigs, I used a stupid method to melt the wheel weights. I set a steel plate on an incline and used a propane weed...

Reading the book Mr. Sharpe says colloidal graphite doesn't damage barrels, but that larger size grains do. Evidently colloidal means it is exceedingly fine, almost to a molecular size.

"The term...

Researching a bit I found a benchrest forum in which a poster said he applies micro fine graphite to his barrel bore before he puts it away. I got the impression he swabs lockEZE down it. I was...

I've been reading Phillip Sharpe's book on reloading and am impressed by what he says about colloidal graphite. The problem so far has been finding any. Does anyone know and care to inform me as to...