Some days loading & casting is therapeutic, some days it's torture. On the bad days I just shut things down and find something else to do, if things aren't going well I'm better off not handling 750 degree lead or gunpowder.
Some days loading & casting is therapeutic, some days it's torture. On the bad days I just shut things down and find something else to do, if things aren't going well I'm better off not handling 750 degree lead or gunpowder.
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Some of my favorite recipes start out with a handful of depleted counterbalance devices.
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I like lee cause its from my homestate, might as well employ people to make good products for the price bracket, and with a little modification make it perfection. Guess it wasn't entirely wasted, I've learned to not start casting when my anger is getting the best of me, and that I MUST have a hotplate. SO, hotplate comes in tomorrow. Also, don't spare the RTV, go heavy or it'll fly off again. Why waste a mould when I can grab a tube of the stuff and go to town!
I'm glad I'm in the hands of highly experienced casters, thank you all!
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Today I hit my hand with a 2 pound hammer and spilled 1/2 pound of powder while reloading.... decided to quit and pick up a pack of beer instead....
You better watch where you go and remember where you beenThat's the way I see it I'm a Simple Man. - Charlie DanielsFor if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins. -Matthew 6:14-15
Oh.... that's really bad. I feel for you, it's almost like losing gold down a wishing well, or bad luck well I guess.
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I always warm my mold up on a hotplate and it drops good boolits after just acouple of pours. I have to set my hotplate on the low to medium setting or it gets to hot.
You need heat.
Let the mold float on the melt untill the lead falls off it.
I do not even smoke mine. I just soaked it in mineral spirits for a day, and it has been happy ever since.
For real sticky molds, I cast several for each cavity, put a sheet rock screw in the base of each, then hand spin it with valve lapping compound. Does not take much. I cast a few for each cavity so I do not change size much. If it changes at all, it is even.
I'm going to clean them again really well and watch some more videos, I'm frustrated. I got the concept down, just some of the finer details keep ruining what should be a great time
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I might even remelt my ingots and clean them up a bit more. I wonder if my lead is slightly dirty. I flux two or three times with pine bedding and it looks clean on the top, after I make ingots and cast, it seems to start showing black spots in the boolits. Kind of a gross dirt like appearance.
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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 |