turning big into little (lead not rocks)

[Crusty Deary Ol'Coot]

Hate abbreviations without at least one written out explanation.

Example, I like Wide Flat Nose (WFN) bullets.

HELP!!!!!!!!!!

WHAT is a "SFRB"?

Crusty Deary Ol'Coot

[No_1]

Hate abbreviations without at least one written out explanation.

Example, I like Wide Flat Nose (WFN) bullets.

HELP!!!!!!!!!!

WHAT is a "SFRB"?

Crusty Deary Ol'Coot

Small Flat Rate Box

[Crusty Deary Ol'Coot]

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This texting generation that can never spell something out drives me nuts!

THANKS

CDOC

[Oklahoma Rebel]

how much does this place charge for 25lbs of lead, is it pure lead or an alloy, I have a chop saw!

[Walter Laich]

sorry, missed your earlier question

lead is from old fishing nets up there and is some type of alloy--pretty hard

It's $1.10 per lb plus SFRB postage

http://www.thegreatalaskanleadco.com/home.html

[Quickdraw4u]

Like the chop saw method. Try a "thin kerf blade" . Only 1/8" thick instead of a standard blade which is 1/4" thick. Half the dust.

[Geezer in NH]

Get a bigger pot, melt it pour into small ingots. Better than sawing, this is not rocket science.

[LiveSteamer]

I bought some lead cast to fit as a block in a SFRB. Rather than try and cut it into smaller pieces, I bought a 10" diameter cast iron skillet for $ 12. The 25 pound block of lead doesn't quite fit in the skillet, but I just lay it in the skillet with one end on the bottom of the skillet and as that part of the block contacting the bottom of those skillet melts the block slides into the skillet. Once the lead is melted and fluxed I use a cheap stainless steel gravey spoon to dip out the lead and pour into ingot molds.

[Walter Laich]

think there are different ways to get to the same goal. I don't worry about thickness of blade as by cutting lead on the tarp I recover at least 90-95% of it.
Others use frying pans or bigger pots...

all ends up as bullets which is the goal

[NavyVet1959]

Hate abbreviations without at least one written out explanation.

Example, I like Wide Flat Nose (WFN) bullets.

HELP!!!!!!!!!!

WHAT is a "SFRB"?

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...-on-This-Forum

[Crusty Deary Ol'Coot]

Seems a poor plan to go searching for a list of abbreviations when it is soooooo very simple for a poster to simply type out the word or phrase one time then go on with the post using the abbreviation.

Takes less time all the way around except for those to lazy to communicate.

Crusty Deary Ol'Coot (CDOC)

[NavyVet1959]

Seems a poor plan to go searching for a list of abbreviations when it is soooooo very simple for a poster to simply type out the word or phrase one time then go on with the post using the abbreviation.

Takes less time all the way around except for those to lazy to communicate.

Crusty Deary Ol'Coot (CDOC)

In proper documents, you write out the phrase and then use the acronym, but with forum posts being considerably shorter and more akin to parts of a conversation between the participants of the conversation, that sort of thing would prove cumbersome. As such, there are stickies that have common useful information in them so that people hopefully don't ask the same question over and over.

Where it gets interesting though is when the same acronym / abbreviation stands for multiple things. For example:

BLM -- Black Lives Matter / Blue Lives Matter / Bureau of Land Management / ...
SWC -- Semi Wad Cutter / Surface Warfare Commander / Special Weapons Center / Salt Water Cooling / ...

I remember back at NASA where a guy got an award for creating a book of acronyms in use by the agency and the subcontractors.