If you got ton of money and time, go out and buy all new NLG molds!!!!!! Waste of time and money.
I have both in many cals & designs, and I feel the NLG design gains nothing at all. Stick with...
Type: Posts; User: bangerjim
Forum: Cast Boolits
If you got ton of money and time, go out and buy all new NLG molds!!!!!! Waste of time and money.
I have both in many cals & designs, and I feel the NLG design gains nothing at all. Stick with...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Convection ovens are great. They even the baking temp out. Remember we are baking tiny little pieces of metal with very little thermal mass, unlike a casserole or pizzas. The moving air tends to keep...
Forum: Our Town
Yes.........just follow the printed directions from the maker printed on the package.
And buy the SAME brand/type of epoxy in the future and not several brands/types. Makes life much simpler.
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Forum: Special Projects
Turn in a lathe. Mill on a mill! Period.
The milling jigs that go on metal lathers are a joke. I have several of them for my various lathes and all are for only VERY LIGHT work like cutting a key...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
OMG.....................Dacron filler at Walmart is dirt cheap. How cheap are you? I have a bag I bought in 2012 and still have at least 1/2 of it left. Clean, convenient to acquire (every tiny...
That one with the flap in front . . . . . those flaps always get caught on whatever is in the box and make it difficult to close. The lidded ones are far superior.
Forum: Our Town
"Summertime......and du livin' is ea-sy". Many are outside doing stuff and have no time to pound keyboards inside!
Of the 6 forums I belong to, this is the only fire-arms/casting one in the lot....
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Good hard alloy used for sweetening your pure Pb to where you want it. I always go 9-12 for all my cast boolits, + PC, of course!
And......................you can trust them. Unlike some of the...
I use the whisky and scotch round tubes the bottles come in. Molds and handles stay in tack and fit.
I paint the outside black and print labels for the side and end for easy ID.
FREE!
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Forum: Cast Boolits
If I can go well over 2K FPS (and I do!) without the hassle of old-school GC's by using PC for what I shoot, then I will. And I DO. Quit using GC's a few years ago. Only used Cu comm-made GC's from...
Forum: Our Town
Right where I am at: Southern AZ in the winter and Northern AZ in the summer.
Forum: Our Town
I only buy and load 223 FMJ's. Easy and fast. Those silly little pills cast for 223's are just too hard to handle, pc, and load. I have 3ea) 223 molds and will never cast another! Probably will give...
Forum: Our Town
Make your own with a good color laser printer, the artwork, a graphics program like GIMP (free source software!), and "Waterslide Decal Paper" from Amazon. Check it out.
The maker is...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
SELL????????????? If you cast and shoot a lot, you will go through that little stach in no time! The Sn alloys are getting harder to find at reasonable prices. If it was mine I would just keep the...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
SPEED
Some of the deciding factors on operating speed are:
1. material you are working on. Plastics tend to melt at high speeds.
2. Size of bit /drum/blade you have in the power tool. Small...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Don't laugh! I have 2 dental air turbine hand pieces. GREAT for intricate work, where having a clumsy Dremel motor tool hanging out of you hand is very awkward. at up to 30K RPM (or higher) these...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I probably have 5 Dremel tools in the shops. And other brands that I consider superior. My favorite is a Foredom flex shaft with hand piece and 1/3 HP variable speed motor on the other end. And the...
Forum: Cast Boolits
NO SAND! Nothing abrasive.
Use any food group/grain that is small & hard!
Forum: Our Town
The stock market is no place to try to MAKE money today. All you can do is buy something you have been watching (that pays dividends), buy it and hope it does not continue the downward spiral we see...
Forum: Our Town
Even with the horrible dives the markets have been taking the past 15 days, the vast huge part my investment nest egg in fixed indexed annuities has not gone down 10¢. And I can access many thousands...
Forum: Our Town
OP - - - yes you have a bad worn-out pack. Just buy a new one. Please do not try replacing cells yourself if LiON. If you cannot afford a new one, take it to a battery repair place like Batteries+....
Forum: Our Town
Look up nickel-carbon rechargeable batteries. Those things are long-life and rugged. Not used much anymore from what I can find.
Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
Cooked bacon has a long shelf-life, even if it is not refrigerated. You see flat packs of pre-cooked bacon in the stores all the time sitting unrefrigerated. An excellent traveling/camping meat. ...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
As I said above, I ran my CABINE-style tester against an NIST certified tester in a lab with known samples and it is NOW dead on after a bit of re-calibration.
Now I get 6.7-7 when I test dead...
Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
Our growing season is a little different than y'all back in MN! We plant in late Feb/March (while y'all are shoveling snow!) and most veggies are more than ready by now. It is now 100+ °F everyday...
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 |