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Hardness does not matter as much as it used to. Do not ever see me adding copper to my melt. Thank you powder coat paint, you sure made life much easier.
If I need a tougher bullet (rarely) I add a small amount of copper hard babbit. You don't want to get carried away if you're using a bottom pour pot as a little too much copper will cause spout freeze.Gp
Is the Copper Sulfate in question, a blue crystalline type? I have been pouring thru posts on this, and saw one comment, somewhere, that copper sulfate pentahydrate (the blue crystals ) shouldn’t be added to molten mix as the pentahydrate means 5 molecules of water… which will do the water in lead pot thing. Amorphous Copper Sulfate is a power.
What form of copper sulfate is being used here?
Last edited by Krh1326; 07-28-2022 at 10:49 PM.
The only time I have used copper sulfate with lead is when I tried copper plating bullets. I gave it up as a lost cause.
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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 |