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I made a 3 cavity mold for 45 ACP, 40 S&W and 9mm. Sadly I screwed up the diameters for two of them. Time to go back to the machine shop.

Ooooo... used motor oil upwind from my ******* nosey neighbor!

In a recent casting class one guy brought in a bunch of range scrap that included bits of the rubber backstop. My smelting pot was...

BNE is 100% correct. You cannot scoop out the tin and antimony and then end up with pure lead. To help support that at work we have two wave solder machines, one running 63/37 tin lead and one...

Our indoor range prohibits jacketed boolits, back stop can't handle jacketed. Plated, PC, Hi-Tech or lubed are fine. The end result is typically the only shooters at the indoor range are...

My local tire shop has been nice enough to give me their "waste weight" buckets. I usually stop i around the first of each month and swap my scrap buckets for "new" buckets, so they end up getting...

When I get a batch of used wheel weights I sort out the zinc, steel and plastic prior to smelting. Fortunately the shop where I get them does a pretty good job of making a bucket of clip on and a...

I pre-soak the range pickup in water as I sort by caliber. I have found that a squirt of Dawn dish liquid with warm water and stainless steel pins, run for 20-30 minutes gets the brass clean. Do I...

I have access to about 50 pounds of pewter waiting to be smelted into ingots.

In January I smelted about 150 pounds into ingots when it was 27 °F with no issues. But I was not casting boolits. Much nicer to smelt/cast when it is below 60 °F.

From an old biker friend that had a huge plastic sheet (think 4 mil poly sheet) melted onto his chrome exhaust pipes he used oven cleaner on the hot pipes and it came right off. Maybe put the mold...

~JM~
You will be surprised how fast 100 pounds of lead or alloy will disappear once you start casting, reloading and shooting. Caliber dependent of course. Keep the word out with your contacts...

I have COWW and pewter available if you are interested.

I added a .40 cal musket ball to my squirt bottle as an agitator. I have found that a small open #5 plastic container (think Cool Whip size) with no lid works for me.

For my smelting setup I have a dual squirrel cage fan set that I have blowing on my two Lyman molds. Casting on a cool or cold day helps. On my last smelting run it was 27 °F.
Local tire shop is...

I'm in for Amazon. My backup is MidwayUSA.

Smelted about 28 pounds of CWW and about 40 pounds of SWW.

My local tire guy is my source for $0. My cost is going to be a lead weight for one of his dragsters.

Today I made a three cavity "slugging" mold to make over sized pure led slugs for barrel slugging. This one is set up for 9mm, 40 S&W and 45 ACP. Started from a hunk of aluminum. Next is to make...

I was referring to the basic Lemi Shine Booster plus maybe a stinky smell. Yes, all the other products have lots of unpronounceable ingredients.

Today I had a thought... what is in Lemi Shine. A little quick research and citric acid is the only ingredient.

I used a turkey fryer burner and a cast iron frying pan, poured from pan into Lyman molds. Next batch will be larger so I'll use my 20 pound propane tank pot, the turkey burner and a ladle.
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Ok, I'm going to go out on a limb here. I've been in the electronics industry for 50 years. We only use flux to assist in getting a good solder joint. In our wave solder machines there is no flux...

Dieselhorses,

No steel or zinc. I presorted to cull out the steel, zinc and plastic. Also put SOWW in a separates buckets for another day. There may have been one or two that I missed, but with...

Well, last night. It was 27 °F and I fired up the smelting gear. 6 buckets of COWW now is 133 LYMAN ingots.

I've put the word out and now have tire guy suppling me and my mail man that does house cleanouts on the side. Currently talking with a local roofing guy for his scrap. And then there are the 6%...