Archey
02-11-2012, 10:54 PM
I was in the middle of a great casting session when I looked around at everything on the casting bench and it occurred to me just how much I have learned from this place.
Looking around the casting bench, I had a bottle of Kroil that I used to "clean" the mould, a bottle of synthetic 2 stroke oil that I use to lube the sprue plate and alignment pins on the mould and a small pile of saw dust that I use for flux in the lee pot. I can contribute all of this directly to this site.
I was water dropping my boolits, (which I learned about here) so after they were dry, I tumble lubed them with a couple of light coats of Recluse lube (I would have never though about using floor wax to lube a boolit with out this site) .
After all of my casting was done, I prepped some brass with Lemi-Shine (never in a million years would I have thought to try a dishwasher additive to clean brass).
Tomorrow I will be loading up a bunch of ammo but not with the boolits I cast today because I now understand age hardening thanks to this site.
I started out casting thinking that I could make some cheap pinking rounds. After I found this site and appling all that I have learned, I realize that I can make better ammo than I can buy from basically scrap metals.
My many thanks to all members here.
Looking around the casting bench, I had a bottle of Kroil that I used to "clean" the mould, a bottle of synthetic 2 stroke oil that I use to lube the sprue plate and alignment pins on the mould and a small pile of saw dust that I use for flux in the lee pot. I can contribute all of this directly to this site.
I was water dropping my boolits, (which I learned about here) so after they were dry, I tumble lubed them with a couple of light coats of Recluse lube (I would have never though about using floor wax to lube a boolit with out this site) .
After all of my casting was done, I prepped some brass with Lemi-Shine (never in a million years would I have thought to try a dishwasher additive to clean brass).
Tomorrow I will be loading up a bunch of ammo but not with the boolits I cast today because I now understand age hardening thanks to this site.
I started out casting thinking that I could make some cheap pinking rounds. After I found this site and appling all that I have learned, I realize that I can make better ammo than I can buy from basically scrap metals.
My many thanks to all members here.