mckenziedrums
10-03-2013, 11:53 AM
Hi... I'm Tim... long time lurker first time poster... yada yada...
So I grew up in a household where my mom took away my BB gun at age 16 because she didn't like guns. Turns out I've since made up for that with my C&R license, reloading, and now getting into casting. Might as well do it all right?
In any case... I'd been kicking around the idea of getting into casting and lo and behold last week a guy posts on another forum I frequent that he's selling ~460lbs of wheel weights for $150. I'm not the best at math but that seemed like a good deal so I jumped on it. Then I may have stumbled over to Amazon and ordered a 20lb Lee pot and a thermometer... borrowed a couple ingot molds... and set about sorting and smelting it down.
Well now I've got about 200 little shiny ingots that look like they want to be something more. So I finally registered here and proceeded to buy a 6 cavity lee mold. Start big right? Read all about how to add a screw to it and learned that unless I have an extra box of matches I'd better find a better way to smoke it....
Ah ****... I need a way to size bullets... hmm... what's on Ebay... Oh look... Lyman 45 sizer with heater that's been adapted to fit and sizing dies... and free lube? Score! Oh wait... same guy has some Lee 2 cavity molds in calibers I shoot... $10 each? Sure why not...
Whoever said reloading your own was cheaper lied to me darnit!! ;)
Did I mention the wife and I are expecting our first any day now so I'm not even going to get a chance to play with all these new toys for quite some time.... *sigh* In any case, great site with tons of useful information. Don't have much to share because well so far all I've done is try to get dirty lead clean and stick it into easily stackable ingots that look a lot nicer on a shelf than a bunch of wheel weights. If someone from around Charlotte happens to have a suggestion for a scrap yard that might swap out my 200lbs of steel weights for lead that'd be fantastic!
So I grew up in a household where my mom took away my BB gun at age 16 because she didn't like guns. Turns out I've since made up for that with my C&R license, reloading, and now getting into casting. Might as well do it all right?
In any case... I'd been kicking around the idea of getting into casting and lo and behold last week a guy posts on another forum I frequent that he's selling ~460lbs of wheel weights for $150. I'm not the best at math but that seemed like a good deal so I jumped on it. Then I may have stumbled over to Amazon and ordered a 20lb Lee pot and a thermometer... borrowed a couple ingot molds... and set about sorting and smelting it down.
Well now I've got about 200 little shiny ingots that look like they want to be something more. So I finally registered here and proceeded to buy a 6 cavity lee mold. Start big right? Read all about how to add a screw to it and learned that unless I have an extra box of matches I'd better find a better way to smoke it....
Ah ****... I need a way to size bullets... hmm... what's on Ebay... Oh look... Lyman 45 sizer with heater that's been adapted to fit and sizing dies... and free lube? Score! Oh wait... same guy has some Lee 2 cavity molds in calibers I shoot... $10 each? Sure why not...
Whoever said reloading your own was cheaper lied to me darnit!! ;)
Did I mention the wife and I are expecting our first any day now so I'm not even going to get a chance to play with all these new toys for quite some time.... *sigh* In any case, great site with tons of useful information. Don't have much to share because well so far all I've done is try to get dirty lead clean and stick it into easily stackable ingots that look a lot nicer on a shelf than a bunch of wheel weights. If someone from around Charlotte happens to have a suggestion for a scrap yard that might swap out my 200lbs of steel weights for lead that'd be fantastic!