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Type: Posts; User: Rickf1985
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Have you hit one with a hammer to see if it is brittle? That looks like a LOT of antimony.
Forum: Our Town
Great to see you educating him on the snakes. Most snakes are beneficial to the ecology, even the poisonous ones. Learning what to do when you encounter them is a very needed skill. Way back when, I...
Forum: Our Town
We have black snakes and garter snakes around me and I fully welcome them around the perimeter of the house. When the snakes are present I have no mice whatsoever. Problem is that they will follow...
Forum: Our Town
Now you need to check the rest of the safes to find the guns it goes to. LOL
Forum: Our Town
I am looking at this procedure somewhere in the future so watching how you do. Glad it al went well.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
If you are at 90% then the difference is negligible, but how do you know you have 90% without testing? And as has been said, the price is going up on pewter so is it still worth it?
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
And you are not getting pure tin which you can buy at places like Rotometals and know for sure what you got. You can buy pure tin for 28.00 lb. and that pound will do a lot more than pewter alloy....
Forum: Reloading Equipment
You got your money back and you did not have to send the dies back. You yourself say they work great so will you please stop complaining about the FREE dies you got!!! Everything you buy has a...
Forum: Our Town
Hagerty covers all my cars except for the one daily driver. They even cover my 06 Mustang GT. The price I pay for three pickups and two antiques cars plus the Mustang is less that just the Mustang...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I wish I had know this a week ago, I was just through NC on 95 last Wednesday and I have tons of wheel weights I could have traded.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
You must live in a wide open area! If I tried that here the fire company would show up in very short order.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
See my post #14 where I quoted the uses of Indium.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
What is a newspaper? I have heard about them as something OLD people used to stare at. :roll::roll:
Seriously, they just stopped delivering my paper 5-6 years ago and told me to look at it...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
You would not use lead as a body dolly. It is dshaped a little like one but definitely not a body tool if it is lead.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Rotometals has super pure tin for 38.00 for a 1.1 lb. bar. Regular tin for 28.00 with a minimum purchase of 6 units.
Forum: Our Town
If they ever settle my workers comp suit from 18 years ago I might have the money to move but I can't afford it right now. Then is the issue of the actual move, ten years ago I could have done a lot...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
That was a great find, they look like 25 plus lbs. each. Toxic, yea right. I live in NJ and I have three superfund sites within 5 miles of me. A military missile silo where a nuke missile caught on...
Forum: Our Town
NJ is great for changing the rules, about every two weeks. Even the cops have no idea what is legal and what is not at this point. My CCW is due this fall and I have to go through the same police QC1...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Interesting, I wonder if anyone has ever gone back down in those mines to do a visual survey? Or are they all flooded?
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Slick 50! There is a name I have not heard for a long time. I remember putting that in a racing engine for dirt track racing to see if it helped. I didn't see any difference in my times but I did win...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Bazoo is correct, 3 lbs. of that alloy to 100 lbs. of wheel weights will give you pb 93-Sn 3.07,Sb 3.05,Arsenic .24, Cu.10.
Another way to look at it is 4.8 oz. to 10lbs.
BHN 12.3
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Adding that to wheel weights would raise your Sb. which you would not want. This is an alloy that would be perfect to add to pure lead.
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Evaporust is a Chelating process and I am pretty sure it cannot harm solid metal. I have had very good results with Evaporust on rusted old tools and threading dies. It did not harm the threads in...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Looking at those two pictures side by side you can see that little has changed other than the modern handling machinery.
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |