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Glad you got the stent in time.... Prayers for improved health and successful diabetes management.

Prayers going up for mercy and grace coming down

I'm using saw dust from my table saw and it is mostly pine so I guess I'm in pretty good shape.

Thanks for all the replies

Any thoughts on the film?

The wax is white and opaque.

Firm, but not hard like a candle

It's just a little greasy to the touch

A couple questions for the crew....

When I flux with saw dust, should I light the smoke cloud? I've done it twice and it definitely ignites. But I don't know what's burning and whether it helps...

Thanks for the tips guys...

I've got another new mold (Lee TL358-158-SWC) that I'm itchin' to try out next.

And I've recruited my lovely wife to scout the thrift stores for a hot plate.

Oh, my sprue puddle was certainly generous .... More of a lake than a puddle.

I've had mixed results with the Franklin spray... I hit the cavities with a light shot and then wipe it off of the...

Trying out a new mold today.... Casting WWs with a Lee 2-up TL356-124-2R mold, from a 20# bottom pour production pot.

The problem.... Wrinkled bullets!!

Mold was clean... Properly...

Hey guys! On my most recent smelt, I mixed some scrap roofing lead into my clip on WWs. I wasn't in any way precise, but if I had to guess I'd say it was ~25%. I'm taking the day off work tomorrow...

Has any body ever seen a recipe for bullet lube using this

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It's ~25% Refined paraffin wax and ~15% hydrotreated microcrystaline wax

I'm assuming the ballance is some kind of petroleum...

I'm looking for one that could be used in a 30 cal. push through sizer.

can be for either a 1/8" Dremmel shank or a 1/4" die grinder shank, as I have both available.

I want to upen up a Lee sizing die .001" to .002"

I have 200 grit machinist valve lapping compound. Is this to coarse?

I also want to "Leement" a two up mold.

I hear people talking about...

I got a little farther in my load development for this one.....but ran into an unexpected problem....

bullet.... Lee 312-155 cast w/ WDWW. Bullets are dropping at .312" and then I'm seating a...

oh, now they add the sugar for you, put it in a large pouch and jack the price up 3X what normal sugar costs.....

Thank the Good Lord my kids drink water! I'd go broke paying the dentist bills....

update....

with some add'l time for the lube to firm up and some twisting, I got the "cake" to drop out of the pan.....

bullets pushed out easilly with my thumb.

most are green, some are...

What's really scary Dan, is that you're likely talking about the ancient small packets of Kool Aid, where you put in your own sugar (which is much too complicated for the "modern" man)...

Of...

Pure GENIUS!!!

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Well I finally got around to making my second attempt at "baking" a "lube cake", having high hopes since I snuck a 9" Teflon coated pie pan into the grocery cart a couple weeks back (another...

looky, looky....thermometer stand.

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I'm a newby boolit caster and figured I better spring for a thermometer if...

Awe....

What's a little KE among friends? Not to mention the energy imparted to a lab. full of undergrad. engineering geeks.

Awe....

What's a little KE among friends? Not to mention the energy imparted to a lab. full of undergrad. engineering geeks.

you won't need to shoot them to be tossed in jail.....just make one and you're toast.

the enacters I've seen have the "kit" to shoot, though they don't actually do it.



no mention in the...

The state department must have received a flood of questions, because they've set up a commodities jurisdiction process for formally determining who has to comply with this cr@p.



they have a...

that's a very clever apparatus you've worked up there.....

but...

The Charpy V-notch toughness tester is just plain fun!

Shooting those samples all over the lab. floor is one of my fonder...