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Thread: Trip down memory lane

  1. 05-30-2019, 09:01 AM #1
    mjwcaster
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    Trip down memory lane

    Last night after having some casting issues I did a web search for Lee spruce plate bullet base issues.
    Found an archived link on castboolits and started reading.
    Really didn’t pertain to my issue, but I kept reading any way.
    After a few back of forth posts seems started to sound familiar.

    So I look at the name of the OP.
    And of course it was me.
    Questions from my first real casting session, August 2014.

    So I guess I have been at this almost 5 years. Had a pretty good run with probably 15-20 thousand cast and shot.

    Until last fall when I started having issues that I now mostly attribute to contaminated range scrap.
    Bad fill out, too soft, hitek failing, leaded barrels.
    It was a mess.

    I am now trying to get things back on track, extra cleaned lead, different batches, doing a little mold maintenance etc.

    It was fun reading about my first casting sessions.
    And fun enjoying casting last night.





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  2. 06-01-2019, 07:12 AM #2
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    I have done almost the same thing. Start reading something interesting and about to post a comment, when I see I already did that a while back.

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  3. 06-01-2019, 07:33 AM #3
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    Spruce = A coniferous evergreen tree.
    SPRUE = A passage through which a molten material is introduced into a mold.
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  4. 06-01-2019, 07:40 AM #4
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    Quote Originally Posted by Petrol & Powder View Post
    Spruce = A coniferous evergreen tree.
    SPRUE = A passage through which a molten material is introduced into a mold.
    Auto Correct = an annoying feature on phones, tablets, and computers that substitute a common word for the less common the writer intended.
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  5. 06-01-2019, 09:00 AM #5
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    Auto Correct = something that can be turned off and I do this automatically. I know too many big words!
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  6. 06-01-2019, 09:26 AM #6
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    I’m not sure how many big words I know but auto-correct has caused me to use some that can’t be printed here!
    IT AINT what ya shoot--its how ya shoot it. NONE of us are as smart as ALL of us!
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  7. 06-03-2019, 11:52 PM #7
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    It was definitely auto misspell at work combined with a late night post and lack of competent proof reading.

    I believe I have now updated the dictionary in my phone to recognize sprue.

    Succes, it just worked, my phone didn’t change sprue to spruce.


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