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Thread: Water glass and other glues

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    Boolit Grand Master In Remembrance
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    Buy a hot glue electric gun and some hot glue sticks. Run a ring around the over shot wad = perfectly sealed
    Hot glue is also an excellent way to form modified seating plug cavities and H&I dies for perfect bullet ogives
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    Quote Originally Posted by John Boy View Post
    Buy a hot glue electric gun and some hot glue sticks. Run a ring around the over shot wad = perfectly sealed
    Hot glue is also an excellent way to form modified seating plug cavities and H&I dies for perfect bullet ogives
    Reading the thread I wondered about hot glue. that crap sticks to everything and its so easy to work with.

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    Probably best, when dealing with shotgun shell reloading, to stay with the things that are tried and proven. Waterglass seems to be one of them. This past winter I reloaded a bunch of mixed .410 shells, some with unknown pasts. A few, perhaps a dozen, would not fold crimp well and left a little round hole in the center of the crimp through which one or two shot could dribble out. Gave it a lot of thought, and bought a small squeeze tube of silicon sealant (DAP brand) and put a small blob in each hole. The stuff is advertised to never harden, and I think it will probably prove good for the application I used it for, but I don't believe I'd use it to seal overshot cards, etc.

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    WOW! I just use a little Elmer's glue thinned with isopropol alcohol. I dip a small water color paint brush in it and paint the overshot card. Cleans out easily if it doesn't blast clean away.

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    Ive been using water glass with great success. I use it for sealing brass shotshells and for case fire forming.




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    My dad remembers his uncles using a bit of melted beeswax when reloading 10 and 12 gauge shells in their kitchen in Pittsburgh. That is what I’m planning on trying, at least once anyway. Wish I had pictures of that.

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    I would avoid hot glue exposed to the barrel.
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    A good source of water glass is radiator stop-leak sold at auto parts stores. It's not all created equal, so look for a bottle that advertises no grit or metal flake in the formula.

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