Thats Mark Novak, pretty sharp guy.
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Thats Mark Novak, pretty sharp guy.
Mark Novak is the guy. My favorite was making a spring for a flintlock. Making the part by hand and forming it. After he quenched it and tempered in a lead casting pot. Melted lead is a good to Temper with.
A lead pot can also be used to nitre blue small parts, without using nitre.Originally Posted by GregLaROCHE
The solid soft lead bullet is undoubtably the best and most satisfactory expanding bullet that has ever been designed. It invariably mushrooms perfectly, and never breaks up. With the metal base that is essential for velocities of 2000 f.s. and upwards to protect the naked base, these metal-based soft lead bullets are splendid.
John Taylor - "African Rifles and Cartridges"
Forget everything you know about loading jacketed bullets. This is a whole new ball game!
Pot of lead to the rescue in many applications where controlled heat is needed.
"Come unto Me, all you who labor and are heavy burdened, and I will give you rest." Matthew 11:28
Male Guanaco out in dry lakebed at 10,800 feet south of Arequipa.
here, here, I would drink to that but have already melted down the pewter mugs.
I will pass on the best advice I ever got as a young man. Years and years ago while I was in HS I asked Dick Riley about being a gunsmith, working in his shop for free to learn. Dick said: "Go to school get an education, go into real business, make a real living to support your family and then retire. When you are retired and you want to be a gunsmith do so only if you do not need to make a living from gunsmith work."
Over the years I have helped in many shops when they got behind or over whelmed and needed help and some of the work VS revenue is not real good. One night into morning doing hot blue with blueing salts might break you of the desire to learn that part.
That is exactly what I did. Dick was way smarter than the average bear, he was the President of the NRA and a NH Senator
“There is a remedy for all things, save death.“
Cervantes
“Never give up, never quit.”
Robert Rogers
Roger’s Rangers
There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
Will Rogers
Went to a nickel chrome shop after work and said I would work for free, I wanted to learn, He said well, Whats to stop you from competing with me? No thanks...I might have stayed there, His loss as I did learn the trade and competed with him. All Harley parts.
Give me something to believe in. Poison
Arosmith What it takes
A 12 step program
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