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When I started with cast bullets 30 years ago, all I had was Lyman books to go by. No cast boolit forum. I loaded Lyman 358495 full button wadcutters to full velocity, cast with #2 alloy. Yes I know,...

When I was about 18, 55 years ago, we had some pigeons (flying s*i*h*u*e*) that kept raiding the bird feeder we had in the back yard for the smaller birds. We chased them, but they always came back....

One of mine is the gray 450 with the old style red handle. It has a brass piston nut, but grey color. Age unknown. It might have been during a transition period at the factory when they were using up...

I think I have some of the same lube. Some are red-foil-covered lithium lube colored red, and others are silver-foil-covered lithium lube colored off white/natural, I am not sure. All from the same...

I have an orange 450 which uses a handle that threads into the mechanism. it is a straight piece of metal covered with a dark rubbery something, and is threaded for 3/8 x 24 fine, male. No red...

New response to an old thread, but the push rod inside the sizer die has a sort-of-flat end with a slight bevel. The other end has a concave/convex end to it. I never knew what end goes up. I always...

Here is a list I just did...... I looked at my lube inventory for the first time in years. Some was bought new... some in box lots over the years. Some of it is old, like maybe 1970's. Some is still...

I once cleaned 1-45 and 2-450 using the boiling water method, one at a time. Worked great. Stripped all three. A large aluminum pot, gas burner, and plain water. All the old lube came out and...

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I have a small boxful of 2 or 3 different stick lube mixes I think were from him. From back in the days before the internet, early 1970's. I...

I got a Lyman 2 cavity Loverin from an Ebay seller. 323470, used in VG condition. All the parts are there, and nothing abused. This one I bought, because one cavity is the standard gas check, and...

While melting scrap, WW, pipe, cable sheathing, etc, really any kind of lead, a lot of crud accumulates in the bottom of the cast iron dutch oven. Flux and scrape. Flux and scrape. I ladle out the...

My wife, age 70 now, has had each eye done in the last few years. Cataracts from her mother's side. She has excellent sight in both eyes now, like a young person. She can see near and far without...

I have an anthracite coal stoker for central heat & domestic hot water here in Pa. I leave the insulated top off, so the top of the boiler, at 160-190 degrees, is exposed. I can put a large lead...

We had training films at work, before I retired, about safe lead handling. Lots of detail, but the central theme was that unbroken skin was a barrier to lead, lead oxide, etc,.
The danger was...

I have a 2 pound block of a light yellow wax I picked up at a garage sale. It is still in the plastic wrapper, sealed. How can I find out if it is beeswax or just common regular wax, like paraffin,...

Last year I answered an ad locally for two reloading presses. A Herters turret press and another press marked Ch, the man said on the phone. Not knowing about the Ch, I went there and found out it...

Yes, I went to the Government Liquidation website where I saw the auction, but I could not download the pics. The bidding on this group is not very high, so the inserts may be a turn-off for those in...

I notice that in some auctions of fired brass being auctioned through GL, some of the 9mm has plastic inserts (white ) on the open end.
I never heard of this before. What are these used for, can...

Why does the word "gouging" upset some people ? Do we have a politically-correct movement here who feel it is necessary to jump on someone if their choice and context of words is different from...

Yes I did pop the primers on all 40 empty Egyptian berdan cases. Some fired loud and snappy. Some were weaker pops to varying degrees. Some just seemed to quietly sizzle a little. Some were...

For the last several years, I have been using one of my "four fer $100" Turkish mausers to ring in the new year. Here in suburbia, live ammo is not a good
idea, even if fired carefully only into...

Use aluminum muffin tins, the one-piece units, not the type where the cup is a separate piece pressed into the holes in the frame. Lead or lead alloy will not stick to aluminum. I got mine cheap at...

I am surprised that not a lot of members list Lyman as their favorite brand of dies. I started casting in the middle seventies, and used Lyman all around. Molds, 450 sizer, dies. What other brand...

Yesterday I attended an estate sale locally. Conducted by a professional, everything is marked higher than I want to pay generally. After 12noon, all remaining items drop to half price. I then...

Here is my latest garage sale find. Nineteen pounds of lead, a Lee melter, a mold for snagging treble hooks, a Do-It jig mold, a Palmer split-shot mold, for $20. The lead is soft lead, according to...