RBHarter
West Central AR
Some time back I was talking to some guys I had met through the old board and a sentiment much like one reflected to Ben this very morning .
Through the several forums I post to there has been an expansion of knowledge base . I had read the casting part of the Lyman 47th 3-4 times and it was just still jibberish requiring a substantial investment to get going and painful attention to minutia details . Eventually someone said something to the effect of " you can use a steel pot , big spoon , and look at Lee for a mould " ...........
I feel like I had the opportunity to see all of the books , and all of the testing come together and be accessible all in one place . That place I think sort of became the proverbial "tower of Babble" but a few escaped with enough of the retained compounded knowledge to continue to building on the foundation . Here in this we have several skilled machinists . They are willing to share and teach and sometimes they share some seemingly insignificant little brass brad and all of sudden it's stupid obvious why some little important detail was so perfect one time and not the next .
There's at least one PhD in molecular stuff that can walk you through why 2 carbon and a hydrogen make one wax a perfect base and 2 otherwise identical waxes a train wreck waiting to happen while a 4th just doesn't work .
Then there's the metalergy and why , how , that barely measurable addition of not alloyable metal makes the alloy do incredible things it can't do alone .
The guys that can make the complexity of melt , ladle , mould , sprue plate relationships make sense to a guy about ready to throw a particular mould off a cliff .
We manage to scoop it all together stir it up and pour it back out in layman's terms and we have the ability ...... resource is a better word to explain it 3 different ways to the same result so that almost anyone can grasp the concept explained .
I simply can't imagine having to read a single or 2-3 books and trying to make get where I am in terms of making bullets . The books I have read would have me stuck on 1200 fps loads and paper patched would be ..... some sort of black art .
Instead of that or with that these knowledge bases have taken me from a turkey burner and a soup spoon for WW 452-255 RNFP and 358-158 at 900 fps with a lead mine in the barrel to 2625 with a naked greased 225-55 . It also is reasonable as to why the same everything in the above 1-14 won't do that in a 1-8 .
So to those that found the bed rock and the quarry and teach others to cut stone and make bricks and lend the shoulders to stand on I say thank you .
(This may pop up other places ......)
Through the several forums I post to there has been an expansion of knowledge base . I had read the casting part of the Lyman 47th 3-4 times and it was just still jibberish requiring a substantial investment to get going and painful attention to minutia details . Eventually someone said something to the effect of " you can use a steel pot , big spoon , and look at Lee for a mould " ...........
I feel like I had the opportunity to see all of the books , and all of the testing come together and be accessible all in one place . That place I think sort of became the proverbial "tower of Babble" but a few escaped with enough of the retained compounded knowledge to continue to building on the foundation . Here in this we have several skilled machinists . They are willing to share and teach and sometimes they share some seemingly insignificant little brass brad and all of sudden it's stupid obvious why some little important detail was so perfect one time and not the next .
There's at least one PhD in molecular stuff that can walk you through why 2 carbon and a hydrogen make one wax a perfect base and 2 otherwise identical waxes a train wreck waiting to happen while a 4th just doesn't work .
Then there's the metalergy and why , how , that barely measurable addition of not alloyable metal makes the alloy do incredible things it can't do alone .
The guys that can make the complexity of melt , ladle , mould , sprue plate relationships make sense to a guy about ready to throw a particular mould off a cliff .
We manage to scoop it all together stir it up and pour it back out in layman's terms and we have the ability ...... resource is a better word to explain it 3 different ways to the same result so that almost anyone can grasp the concept explained .
I simply can't imagine having to read a single or 2-3 books and trying to make get where I am in terms of making bullets . The books I have read would have me stuck on 1200 fps loads and paper patched would be ..... some sort of black art .
Instead of that or with that these knowledge bases have taken me from a turkey burner and a soup spoon for WW 452-255 RNFP and 358-158 at 900 fps with a lead mine in the barrel to 2625 with a naked greased 225-55 . It also is reasonable as to why the same everything in the above 1-14 won't do that in a 1-8 .
So to those that found the bed rock and the quarry and teach others to cut stone and make bricks and lend the shoulders to stand on I say thank you .
(This may pop up other places ......)
