For the amount of time you you spent polishing, i think the time taken for a punch is nothing, and a small price to pay.
I size my projectiles nose first, so i just use a punch a little under the...
Type: Posts; User: Tazza
Forum: Casting Equipment
For the amount of time you you spent polishing, i think the time taken for a punch is nothing, and a small price to pay.
I size my projectiles nose first, so i just use a punch a little under the...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
That is way faster than i thought they could go without leading. What sort of twist rate was that?
I have altered my sizer to handle APP dies, you drop them in the hole and gravity holds them in...
Forum: Swaging
You are the king or carbide, that's for sure.
The .9mm and .357 dies you made for me are smooth as silk, even after a few hundred thousand rounds being pushed through them, they are spot on size...
Forum: Casting Equipment
I got moulds from a guy that used to do commercial casting had some round balls, he ran bullet masters and obviously didn't have issues with fill out. Most moulds were lyman modified to take magma...
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Sadly, no
Too many projects, not enough time to devote to them all.
With powder and primer shortages over here in Australia, the demand for round lead things isn't as high as it was :(
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That is a really impressive figure, shame i didn't get introduced to it when i started.
Forum: Casting Equipment
My stick welder is a telwin, i got given two broken ones that i made one good one from, DC inverter and i love it.
I wish my wife would pick up a wrench from time to time to help me, but it's...
Forum: Casting Equipment
That is a wild temperature swing right there, I'm sure it's something simple that is causing it to not maintain it correctly.
Good move with using a regular PID, they are so cheap, if it burns up,...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Good report on a great product, it doesn't take much to coat a mould a dn that stuff sure is slick.
It also doen't effect hi-tek coating afterwards, unlike oil that causes all sorts of issues.
Forum: Casting Equipment
I hope it works out well, no reason it won't, an arduino i assume would have more computing power than a regular PID controller does.
Clean code is nice code. My brother is a code monkey for a...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Very cool setup, my master caster is run with an arduino uno, it has cast close to a million round things and it's still on the original Arduino.
Did you get code for the PID function? or are you...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Mine too is an older one, and it is part of the pot, it is not removable. The base on mine is really thick, it was the old style that runs cartridge heaters and not the newer heating bands. Being...
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I have, mine was covered in yellow crud that plugged the hole somewhat.
With the orifice plate off, get a torch and heat the area till the lead in there melts so you can push wire through it, you...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
All you need is Hi-tek powder, syringe, pure acetone, container to shake your cast in, a tray to cook them on and an oven.
It's very simple.
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Sorry Joe, i haven't been on the forum for a few days, i'll get some pictures hopefully tomorrow if it's not pouring rain like they suspect.
It is fan forced, and i know i'm over baking them. I...
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Glad it's not just me and that k15 isn't as shiny.
Getting TruBlue may be an adventure to get right, i do have an oven from my brother, it may be the dedicated blue oven :)
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I coated about 1,000 projectiles in Tru Blue today, i wasn't off to a very good start. I mixed K15 and Tru blue, 10 grams to 100ml of acetone for Tru Blue, then 40 grams to 400ml of K15, sucked up...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Interesting, i wonder why that is. I have used up all my MEK, so i can test that with the 122 red i use to see if it does that too.
Acetone is way more convenient, if i ever run out, i just run...
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I'm glad i don't use MEK anymore, easy to get if you know where, but it's more expensive than Acetone, stinks REALLY bad
Never use BCB, if it's the product i think it is, didn't it take a long...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
I have never coated buckshot, but i'd tumble it till the surface is how you want it, then coat.
Forum: Casting Equipment
The insides of the moulds look pretty good, the guy that ran the business did a great job of making them serviceable, The ones that were brazed up don't look great, but they close up perfect and have...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Sadly no updates, work is poo with covid, the un-paid leave i'm on i have been finishing other projects at home, so it's good and bad. I haven't had time to sit down and finish the melting pot. I...
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The industry i'm in has been on a decline for years, COVID has just helped make it even worse. I told them we needed a different line, but i'm sure we all know how the higher up think, or don't...
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I'm finding it hard to find time to do the casting part, COVID has stuffed up my day job, had 3 weeks forced un-paid holidays, but that time has been spent doing things around the yard that needed...
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I'll post pictures of the care package I get yesterday. They would be ideal for your machines jatz.
M.a.d if you're up next week, check out what it does. 158 swc are ok, it's an issue of then not...
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 |