Kevin Stenberg
Well-Known Member
Welcome from the Minnesota tundra.
Hmm, built a PID, bought an oven, always watching for moulds, guess I caught it. LOL.Welcome .
It starts all innocent I'll just cast for the 38/40/45 ACP to save a little cause I shoot it a lot .... Next thing you know there's PIDs , ovens , lead potS , 15-20 moulds and you've bought some obscure rifle in between calibers ....
And there is the rub.My only mistake is trying to run before I know how to walk, but suppose most of us have been there a time or two as well.
But a lot of us here enjoy the fiddliness, the over thinking, the tedium, the practice of what some outsiders view as arcane black arts. Many new bullet casters have been driven by extremis to attempt to make their own projectiles and have no interest in wallowing in the minutiae. They do not care about Franklin Mann, H.M. Pope, Keith, Ideal, Hensley&Gibbs, alloys or anything else. They want lots of bullets as fast and as easily as possible so they can shoot. So they can shoot, that is the goal. Nothin' wrong with that, just that we feel like we earned our stripes the hard way and we can be a bit, ah, I don't know, "judgemental?"And there is the rub.
Seems to me that, too many new casters are too lazy to take the time to learn how to walk. Instead, they seek instant gratification and are too lazy to do the research and experimentation that running requires. The classic instant gratification question was* (and may still be), "What is the best load for the 9 mm Luger and
Lee's 356124 2R?"
Even this site's very advanced marathon runners are constantly researching and experimenting.
*From that other site, though I've not visited it in the last eight years.
Glad I could find anything. Went to NAPA and it took three stores to come up with the bearings and seals. At least they are all owned by the same guy and his guys chased them all down. In today's fragile American infrastructure we will soon be running out of everything.I haven't packed ball front wheel bearings since I rolled a late-model chassis under my '46 Chevy pickup back in about 1993.
Trailer bearings suck. It's very difficult to find good quality ones and the seals are even worse. Best you can do is buy NSK or BCA and use oil-type seals with the dust lip and garter spring instead of the single-lip grease-types.
Set points? How 'bout putting a dab of grease on the distributor cam lobes. That ougta cause youngin's conniption fits.Wheel bearings ?
Just make sure you get them down too tight roll the hub and get all the slop out and set the key hole on the tight side as the inner races are likely to move some in the 1st 100 miles and come up as much as an 1/8 turn loose resulting in wheel wobble .
You left out old skool wrench benders that still set points and pack ball bearing front wheel bearings instead of tapered rollers .