Don't use **** from the floor at Home Depot. They saw plywood, particle board, and all sorts of **** on that saw. You'll contaminate your lead with that junk.
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Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Don't use **** from the floor at Home Depot. They saw plywood, particle board, and all sorts of **** on that saw. You'll contaminate your lead with that junk.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?37734-How-to-melt-antimony
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Good food for thought, thanks to everyone for their input. Considering everybody's advice, and the fact that Steve brings me all of the .40S&W brass (thousands of them!) that he gets from the range,...
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I am running natural gas, not propane, so the fuel cost is negligible. He is a good friend, we trade brass and other components pretty regularly. I have traded him ingots for wheel weights a couple...
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My reloading buddy doesn't have the setup for turning all his lovely indoor police range scrap into ingots. I have the equipment and more free time than he does. What's a good cut for me if we each...
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I use straight range scrap for all of my pistol boolits. We get a pretty high ratio of cast versus jacketed from the old berm we're currently mining. Everything we shoot is powder coated so the...
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Interesting thread, DIY stuff always makes for good reading.
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I use the round burner from an old natural gas water heater. It may take a little longer to melt but my bottle never runs out in the middle of the job. :-)
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I use the circular natural gas burner from an old water heater. Natural gas doesn't melt the scrap quite as fast as propane but I never have to worry about an empty tank. My pot is an old pancake...
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I powder coat all my pistol bullets and I like to cast them frosty. It really gives the powder coat something extra to hold on to!
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Just over a thousand Lee 175 grain flat nosed coated in reclaimed powder of various colours. They are sized to .401" for use in my .40 S&W carbine. I call this batch Assorted Chocolates.
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Lee Auto Drum all the way. I have four of them and they all function flawlessly, and consistently. I've used them with Titegroup, Promo, Clay Dot, HS-6 and HP-38.
Forum: Cast Boolits
Repeated loading and firing will cause the nickel plating to delaminate from the brass. As long as there are no cracks in the cases just keep on shooting them. Losing the nickel plating is nothing to...
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Powder coated range scrap works just fine for me.
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Some of us older, retired guys have more free time than we know what to do with I guess. If I were close enough I'd do a 50/50 ingot split.
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I've noticed that Powder Valley is keeping more pistol powders in stock as of late. HS-6, HP38, even 231. It's nice to be able to to fill the powder magazine without mortgaging the house!
I cast 124 grain truncated cones for my SR9 using range scrap and get excellent accuracy and performance. No gas checks, but I do powder coat.
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I have three LAD's. Each of my LLM's has one, and the third is still in the box for future single stage use. So far I have only ran Titegroup and Promo through them but have had no leaks and great...
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My range scrap mostly falls somewhere between 10 and 14. I'm plenty happy with that. :-)
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
ESPC friendly black interests me, gloss or flat doesn't matter. I'm down for 10# if the shipping isn't a deal breaker.
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My range scrap pot is made out of an old Campbell Hausfeld pancake compressor tank. The lid isn't on it...
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I keep a small ham can under my 4-20 in case of serious leaks. While casting I keep an old tablespoon propped up so that the bowl of the spoon catches any drips. Every ten casts or so I just dump the...
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And bear in mind that calipers, either dial or digital, are only accurate to 0.001". When slugging your bore you really want to use a micrometer to check the slug size.
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 |