If you need a good laugh

[MBTcustom]

Check out this thread in lead alloys. I need to breath!
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?278744-Any-Idea-what-CB-might-stand-for&p=3257915#post3257915

[Artful]

Thanks for drawing my attention.

[smoked turkey]

Man, its my bedtime and I hate that I just saw this. I may not sleep tonight trying to figure out what all those initials really mean.

[JeffinNZ]

Post 19 seems plausible.

[WILCO]

Post 19 seems plausible.


Copper/Babbitt? \
Lead/Babbitt? / ind bearings.

Makes sense to me.

[MBTcustom]

I was of course, referring to post #15.
Im still chuckling over that!

[bangerjim]

So why are so many of these "what is this" lead scourgers so totally unwilling to take a hunk to a scrap yard and have it tested with their x-ray gun? I do it all the time.

Only way to really know what is (close estimate) in there. I know the % makeup of ALL the many alloys I have in my stores. You cannot really use the alloy calc without that info.

[GoodOlBoy]

Jim in my part of east Texas there ain't a xray gun at ANY of the scrap yards. Just an FYI.

GoodOlBoy

[blademasterii]

One of the greatest lines that noone understands. I'm cracking up and wife looking at me, whats so funny. UH, I could tell you, but your going to be looking at me the same way after I do.

[wgr]

i would do the does it work test. cast a boolit and see if it works

[jonp]

I dont think the pharoes possesed the knowldege sufficient to cast a cannon big enough to launch a human cannonball at that time

[blademasterii]

The chinese were using bamboo cannons. Just need a REALY big piece of bamboo.

[Blacksmith]

Jim in my part of east Texas there ain't a xray gun at ANY of the scrap yards. Just an FYI.

GoodOlBoy

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