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[OS OK]

If you have cats in your reloading room, don't forget to put your lid back on your brass tumbler.

No, that's not a tootsie roll in there. :O)

FUNNY AS HECK! But with mouth watering after spending all this time picking the walnut shell off...I'm gonna eat it anyway!

[Green Ghost]

When you start smelting wheel weights, if you rely on temp to separate out the zinc ones, sort the ones going into the bottom of the pot because if a zinc one is on the bottom it will melt before your thermometer gets a good reading.
Don't ask me how I know. LOL

Jerry

[Michael J. Spangler]

When you start smelting wheel weights, if you rely on temp to separate out the zinc ones, sort the ones going into the bottom of the pot because if a zinc one is on the bottom it will melt before your thermometer gets a good reading.
Don't ask me how I know. LOL

Jerry

Good idea. I've had that happen.

What i try to do is keep pushing the wheel weights down and moving the solid WW into anything thats starting to melt. if you go low and slow you can keep the whole mess in a big slush like state.
Once the whole pot has reached a slush state it take very little time before all of the lead goes molten and the clips and zinc float. Theres a good window before you get up to the zinc melting temp from the slush stage.
hope that makes sense.

[Walstr]

When smelting range berm lead or ww. put them in an old deep fryer basket in the pot on the burner, heat up... shake gently now and then...the lead melts out and all the metal stays in the basket and comes out All At Once ...except for dirt that spoons out easily.

I've done this many times...and it works!
Very Quick and Easy~!!

What an awesome idear!!! Thank you, thank you. Even better than the Ice Fishing Hole scoop.

[Walstr]

Desiging Molds: Pay close attention to your chamber cast. I "misread'/"mis-measured" mine from a Marlin 1895GS & did not appreciate the how "small/short" the Leade was. With this NOT in mind & whilst too focused on obtaining a large, 73%, Meplat design, my chamber would not accept it. Very sad. After inserting a boolit into a naked case & chambering it, I then started to understand why the darn boolit was being driven so far into the case! The Marlin's Leade is almost non-existent. I arrived at a way to accomplish grinding a short, tapered modification to the Leade, and my blunt, bore riding boolit nose finally fit.

[Grmps]

I found that a potato masher does a quick job of thoroughly fluxing my casting pot and a Stainless Steel Mesh Strainer https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N9HNX6O...LI96NDYI&psc=1
Does a quick job of thoroughly fluxing my smelting pot and I can skim most of the crud with it too.

[Engieman]

I 'fixed' my Lee bottom pour drip by wiring the rod to the handle bar. Still get some drip, but no where near what it used to be. Wiring it maintains it's position and reseats more uniformly than before.

[shell70634]

There is a reason most casters on this forum recommend long lighters to burn the flux. I got the little one out of the pot before it popped. Lesson learned.

[62chevy]

There is a reason most casters on this forum recommend long lighters to burn the flux. I got the little one out of the pot before it popped. Lesson learned.

ROTFLOL some of use just have to learn the hard way. ya me too.

[Bob in St. Louis]

There is a reason most casters on this forum recommend long lighters to burn the flux. I got the little one out of the pot before it popped. Lesson learned.

That wouldn't have brought the tinsel fairy, that would've summoned the Tinsel Christ!

[james23]

I always have a roll of green masking tape around and anytime I set a powder measure, I write the powder and charge on the masking tape and stick to the measure. If I can pick up cheap measure at a gun show I can leave it permanently set for a popular charge. I bought a nice Ideal 55 measure this fall at a gun show for $5. I don't have to remember that way. Marking works good on the adjustable case trimers too.

[poppy42]

Never fry bacon without a shirt on

Or without pants on

[poppy42]

When cleaning cases with citric acid, NEVER use a product that has gelatin in it!

[zubrato]

Never holster an unloaded gun. Ever.
I holstered an unloaded gun earlier while cleaning, was too distracted getting ready I left the house and 40 minutes later when I realized it was too late.


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[Grmps]

I was casting with a Castiron mold and wasn't getting the best fill out so I grabbed a brass brush and dry scrubbed out the vent lines, blew out the mold and I was back in business with pretty bullets again

[byrd45900]

I like to brush clean the spout on the ladel about every 20 pours.This ensures more quality bullets in a session.

[byrd45900]

james23,I use the blue masking tape for notes on pretty much every thing in the reloading room.

[bigcountry022885]

I keep all of my one lbs powder jugs to store cast bullets in if you peel the label off a white paint marker and your in business for better organized ammo


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[Bob in St. Louis]

I use a magnet on a stick (automotive tool) to "pluck" the steel pieces of wheel weights out of the lead smelting pot instead of scooping.
Seems easier and cleaner to me.

[bigcountry022885]

I use a magnet on a stick (automotive tool) to "pluck" the steel pieces of wheel weights out of the lead smelting pot instead of scooping.
Seems easier and cleaner to me.

I will have to try this I got about 300 of wheel waits left to go lol


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