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Hard stamp those so you don't mix them up. I won't say pewter makes bad bullets but they tend to be a waste of tin.Sorry I haven't been around much. I have been feel great but getting better. Well I am getting back into getting some material for casting I have picked up about 15lbs of Pewter in the last couple of weeks so I still have to melt some down into ingots.
Ohhhh shiny!A friend Dropped off about 200 pounds of Water Pipe. They were wet so off to the Reloading Convection oven. I did 3 pot of lead into ingots, about 50 lbs
most likely not goint to happenI believe I have a few.your more than welcome to come cast with us.
I'm in100% I have not a problem hosting again just say when and the advanced course idea sounds great covering cast reloading paerpatching , coatings,mold and die modifications there's alot of cool info that could be shared.When should we do the next seminar?
Summer? Fall?
I’m thinking we could do less smelting and more casting this time around.
Or maybe a casting and loading cast advanced course.
Not bad at all.Kinda funny this just got revisited yesterday because I went ahead and started the learning process by myself since I kept missing the damn seminars (one time due to scheduling and the other time due to my own stupidity of not realizing it was supposed to be on a SATURDAY and not the Sunday like I originally had in my head for some reason).
Anyway...This past Friday evening I smelted a 5 gallon bucket of wheel weighs I had sorted for the seminar last year and came out with 50 muffin pan ingots of unknown hardness/mass. The metal FEELS ok/somewhere in the wheelhouse of where I need to be for bullets, so I went ahead and decided to put my mold to the test yesterday and started casting some 9mm projectiles. I feel like I might have screwed up my mold because there's little chunks of material that I can't seem to get out of the mating surface of the two halves, but the bullets themselves still seem ok? Once I got the mold warm enough and got a rhythm going it actually went fairly quickly.
I KNOW there is some stuff that I'm missing that is probably really important...but I just couldn't wait any longer
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what a score. leave some for the rest of us HAHAHAYesterday we went out and I was able to pick up about another 5lbs of pewter. When the weather cools a little I will be a melting fool. Great stuff for the Bullet Casting.View attachment 239449
Those shiny beer mugs look like those wedding party gifts from Things Remembered. I scored some pewter also. Not 5 lbs though. Its harder to find cheap.what a score. leave some for the rest of us HAHAHA
cool, I have picked up some stuff that was supposed to be pewter...after 10 min over the flame all I did was melt some sort of wax off the cups!They are pewter which I check.