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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...

Yeah, I don't plan on melting them. If it's not explosive, I'm just going to toss them.

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...

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...

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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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...

And BangerJim is one of the people whose posts I followed. :)

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.

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...

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.

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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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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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Let me know what you think of the gas check maker.

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What temperature can the cheap ones handle? What dimensions on the hexagons?

Shoot. I thought I linked the image. http://www.lamsonsharp.com/product/honeycomb-hotspot

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.

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It's good up to 675 degrees and available...

Point me to the threads about them, and I'll write it all up.

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...