Hey there. I have just passed about a year reloading, have not bought a hardess tester. made a newb mistake now i have 4 batches and i forgot what the alloy is...does anyone have a hardness tester that doesnt mind testing 4 boolits for me?
Hey there. I have just passed about a year reloading, have not bought a hardess tester. made a newb mistake now i have 4 batches and i forgot what the alloy is...does anyone have a hardness tester that doesnt mind testing 4 boolits for me?
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you could do the pencil test, should be close enough.
I know that we all use a indenting hardness tester. I wonder if that is measuring the right property of our alloys?
Has anyone measured other material properties of the alloys we use? Tensile strength, toughness, ductility, etc.
Tim
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There is a machine made in England that will plot a curve of stress/strain (so you can calculate all the other numbers) but I can't afford it.Has anyone measured other material properties of the alloys we use? Tensile strength, toughness, ductility, etc.
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hello fellow okie! Welcome to the sight! BNE will measure the alloy , 1 alloy for 1lb of lead, that's if he still does it, I also have 2 alloys I want him to check a lyman#2 I made and one other that might be 4.3%tin 1.9%sb. now mind you, this is not just a hardness test, but a scan that tells what metals are in it at what percent. Good luck!
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there is a sticky here on 'how tough is your alloy'. [or something along those lines]
it was a home made guillotine type machine to test toughness and shear of various alloys.
it's worth looking up.
and it say's a lot of something about the old school ww alloy we used to use back then.
You could save yourself the bother and just mix the 4 batches together and cast some boolits to shoot.
I toss ingots onto the concrete to see if they "ring" the same. Pure lead just "thunks". Real scientific, huh?
You could also place a small ball bearing between two ingots and tighten them in a vice. The softer alloy will indent more.
There's a thread somewhere here that uses a 7/16" ball bearing, pressed onto a flat spot in the ingot at 200 ft lbs using a bath scale and arbor press/drill press. You load the measured size of the indent into a calculator and it tells you the hardness in BHN.
EDIT: Found a thread...
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...ardness-Tester
Last edited by Yodogsandman; 11-14-2016 at 09:33 PM. Reason: added link
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