I put together this article for the m1911.org ezine on casting.
It is not so much as a how to but I have been getting a lot of PMs on how to cast so I wanted to put something together to give folks the general idea of casting pistol bullets.
I did get Robert Bank to help me edit it and since he helped me get started in casting a few years back I respect his opinion.
Check it out and please let me know what you think.
http://ezine.m1911.org/casting_frame.htm
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It's a good article with outstanding photos.
I wish I could have seen the artical before I started casting.Great job!
Well done, Hunter!
Very nicely done, indeed.
Keith
Well done Hunter! Good Pics, would be most valuable to a beginning caster!
1Shirt
Very thorough coverage; well-written & abundantly illustrated too!
Thank you for putting this together.
Bad Hunter We will know have more shooters on the hunt for that big pail of WW!!! Good job on the article have fun clint
Hunter--
Your article is without doubt the best one-source tutorial for getting started in the boolit casting game I've seen to date. With the blessings of yourself and 45 Nut, a link from here to your article would be of great value to our new casters. I would have REALLY liked a step-by-step guide with your EXCELLENT photos when I started this hobby.
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The pin-heads at 1911.org should deserve so good.
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Great job. EVERY possible thing a person would need to know is covered. Well ok,one slight detail omitted. With my love of cats and efforts to preserve and protect them,there should be a warning that cats should not be around when you cast or smelt. This would be for the safety of the caster as well but of course my interest would be more so for cats. To depict this hazzard maybe a picture of a cat with a little molten lead on it, nah that would not be graphic enough---you really want to drive the point home. How about a huge pile of cats with a whole bunch of molten lead on them.
Really nice article and your attention to detail for us newbies is really appreciated. Now I have one request...........is it possible for you to put it in a PDF file for download for usins that would like to save it to our 'puters?
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Outstanding article!
Great pics!
If I may make one comment.
The pics of an UN protected hand while stirring the pot is, well, unprotected.
If you could I'd opt for another showing a gloved hand just for extra safety.
nice job.
Excellent--Great pictures
Bullshot
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Well done and good pic's
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a note on zinc ww's...they are not all riveted. now adays most are cast just like pb. the good news is that most of them actually say zinc on them(zn) or some zn alloy.
i did a 113 lb 5 gal bucket of ww's on sat. it contained 13 lbs of various zn ww, 25 lbs of clips, a couple pounds of trash and produced 73 lbs of ingots( this was mixed soft tape on's and clip on's, used for shot making)
i had some tape on's marked fe.....they were not pure iron , but what are they ?
maybe we need a sticky on ww identification ?
bottom line, better to throw out a questionable ww, than ruin the lot of alloy.
mike in co
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Very good article.
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