Found these at a restaurant supply store.
Screw top #5 containers, 12 for $7.59
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Type: Posts; User: Grmps
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Found these at a restaurant supply store.
Screw top #5 containers, 12 for $7.59
https://i.imgur.com/vj9ByoO.png
Forum: Casting Equipment
I'd try to guestimate the weight of the lead and go off of that -- say .50-.75¢ a pound and the smelter goes with the lead.
TimD, like MDI, said you can use toothpaste, sometimes rubbing a piece of wood along the edges of the mold cavities will remove burs. To test for burs, lightly drag a cotton ball along the cavity...
Forum: Our Town
Dre_sa Welcome to CB.
I'm PMing some information that will help you cast boolits
Forum: Casting Equipment
Loctite is a temporary solution, due to the heating and cooling cycles it doesn't hold very long.
As previously said you have to be 100% sure you have the right tension before it sets up or :(:(:(
9MM has a tapered case. the biggest mistake people make is over crimping the case and downsizing the boolits.
Don't crimp any hard than it takes to keep the boolit from moving when you push the...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Put the pressure on E-bay Lee precision had nothing to do with this. They've ALWAYS been nice to me over the years.
In the future, you'll find that item are usually cheaper on Amazon, they have...
Forum: Casting Equipment
I've heard of people drilling all the way through, taping both sides and using a longer screw.
So far I haven't had to do that.
I Always start filling the 6 cavity mold on the pivot end, I feel...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Build a PID to control your casting pot, you'll kick yourself for not doing it sooner.
I preheat my molds to apr 300°, set my casting pot between 675° and 750° and like to run apr 2% tin for good...
Wear a pair of nylons under your socks(and thermals). Don't knock it until you've tried it.
Forum: Casting Equipment
The box full of older Lyman steel molds should already have set screws.
Check this for your Lee molds --- http://www.castpics.net/subsite2/MoldMods/LeementingKitDocumentation.pdf
Forum: Testing Area
joshst2010 - welcome to CB. If you decided to start casting to save money, forget it. You won't, you'll just shoot more.
Pretty Powder Coated boolits (lead bullets), small comfortable to shoot...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I read somewhere :killingpc that adding equal parts tin and antimony creates anew "matrix" which is harder than calculating adding tin and antimony individually. That's why they're several recipes...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I use and love pine sawdust for fluxing, but, I have found that my fluxing is never complete unless I do at least 1 flux with wax.
Wax gets/does something the pine sawdust alone doesn't do.
I...
Forum: Our Town
Al Nelson @ NOE molds is a good guy
I ordered a bunch of expander plugs from him yesterday and forgot to order 2 sizes:killingpc.
I called him this morning and he pulled the order and added the...
Forum: Casting Equipment
A hand drill is fine, you have no critical angles or tolerances. Make sure you use a brass set screw or put a tiny lead ball in first to protect the screw threads. I usually use 10-32
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
FISH4BUGS, go to this forum
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?204174-simple-Hi-Tek-coating
And ask HiTek (a member and developer of HiTek coating) if he can send you a copy of the...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
I have good luck with trail boss.
Maybe one of these will help, pick the right category
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IF you have the right router and take your time (especially when you get deeper) it is pretty much idiot proof. (I'm not insinuating anything ---- at least not about you LOL)
Forum: Our Town
I use a combination of LED 4 ft fixtures and LED strip lights. the strip lights are great under shelves, good light they stick on and don't take up much room
https://www.5dtactical.com/
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Don't rush it by trying to take off to much material in one pass
Forum: Casting Equipment
Looks like no sweat with the full throw
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
a nice thing about zinc, the markings stay clear and easy to read
↑↑↑ what he said.
You know you've probably cost several of us a bunch of money to get that new "toy"
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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 |