smokeywolf
Well-Known Member
Joshua, bases look very good. I'd call that a success.
so waht ya doin today?
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Ian
Notorious member
Hauled a load of retired aluminum car parts to the scrap dealer this morning, got $35 for two shopping carts full of "dirty" radiators/evaporators/condensers and "breakage" aluminum (water pumps, belt tensioners and the like), hit a yard sale on the way home where I spent $2 on a college chemistry textbook, a pictoral guide to state capitals, and a cool wall hook. Spent the rest of the day removing paint, cleaning, and priming more shaper parts.
Mitty38
Well-Known Member
Nice work. I love to see older stuff with some issues brought back to use.
So many people today just throw money at an issue, when a little bit of work, time and talent will fix it.
CWLONGSHOT
Well-Known Member
Looks good Josh!!
I just picked up two 32 & 380 molds myself!
Im gonna fire the pot here very shortly before It gets too hot. (Gonna be mid 90's today) I wanna cast some of the 90300 & two RCBS molds.
CW
I just picked up two 32 & 380 molds myself!
Im gonna fire the pot here very shortly before It gets too hot. (Gonna be mid 90's today) I wanna cast some of the 90300 & two RCBS molds.
CW
L Ross
Well-Known Member
Coon has been knocking down the hummingbird feeder, now that we have stopped feeding everything else. Put the Hav-A-Hart box trap out last night with a bit of dry cat food that I poured smoked fish oil over. Coon was in the trap this morning. The trap lied. An attorney could parse the spelling.
L Ross
Well-Known Member
Yeah, you're probably right. Their seems to be a never ending supply of looters. I am amazed any ground nesting birds manage to raise any young. After dark it must be like a Zombie movie out there.
Winelover
North Central Arkansas
We have two hummingbird feeders. One is suspended from the cedar façade on the upper rear porch. Other is on a shepherds hook, with a cone shaped baffle, in the backyard. Neither, is bothered by four legged vermin. Ant's, wasps and woodpeckers are a different story.
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Spent most of yesterday outside. Bolted that tree back together and sacrificed the worst of my 4" ratchet straps to tying the 2 halves of the fork together about 5 feet above the crotch.That should solve the wind issue. We covered the crotch to protect it from water too. Hope it works for at least a few years.
Got the pasture ready for the goats/sheep finally. We hope to get them using it today. Goats are flighty critters and it will take some time to convince them they should be there instead of in the barn.
Got the pasture ready for the goats/sheep finally. We hope to get them using it today. Goats are flighty critters and it will take some time to convince them they should be there instead of in the barn.
smokeywolf
Well-Known Member
Some critter got lucky a couple of nights ago and had a dove dinner. Found feathers covering about a 12 foot circle on the driveway behind the house; about 16 feet from the bird feeder. Almost looked like a dove had exploded. No carcass, just feathers.
Our two hummingbird feeders hang from rods which are attached to the outboard side of the 4x4s to which the deck railing is secured.
Our two hummingbird feeders hang from rods which are attached to the outboard side of the 4x4s to which the deck railing is secured.
Glaciers
Alaska Land of the Midnight Sun
Got the mini greenhouse put together and in place, filled with topsoil. Karyn planted a couple of tomatoes, three different peppers, and a cucumber. It's small but windows on the sides are setup as bypass widows. So Karyn can tend without having to reach far. All scrape materials except bought 8 1x4's and some 3/4 X 3/4 inch aluminum angle. Everything else was just salvage.
Need to put a mini facia boards yet. A little paint and it won't look like such a hodgepodge.
Need to put a mini facia boards yet. A little paint and it won't look like such a hodgepodge.
JonB
Halcyon member
I am loading some 9mm today with the AC blowing, during this heat wave...BECAUSE, something came up, were I decided to load some old 9mm RN commercial cast (SNS) that have been laying around since 2009. Back then, I'd get lead fouling, but started thinking if I give them a coat of BLL over their blue wax lube, maybe they'll shoot better??? and I have different 9mm guns now, compared to 2009, so there's that, LOL.
THEN, I started thinking, why I don't own a 9mm mold with RN, as that's all I loaded for 9mm, back before I started casting.
So I start thinking I should buy a mold, cuz I only got 1500 of these SNS 9mm bullets left, LOL.
Lee has the 356-125-2r...so I look for a 6 cav mold at all the usual haunts, distributors don't have any in stock, which I expected, and they are over $100 on fleabay. BUT...Guess what, Midway has some in stock. They have it priced a little bit higher than the "before times", but have free shipping YAY,,, with MN tax, it's half the price of fleabay. So I ordered one, if I don't get a mold that drops the size I want, which has happened often with their 356 molds...sometimes I get one that's .360 and the next one will be .3555 >>>anyway, If it ain't what I want, then I'll just flip it...and probably make a couple bucks.
CZ93X62
Official forum enigma
I have a 2-cavity version of that 9mm mould JonB speaks of. Mine casts large enough to clean up in a .357" H&I die, and I have run them to 1250 FPS from my 9mm pistols lubed with 50/50. Their shape is very close to that of the USA 9mm NATO STANAG (M9) bullet spec; think of it as the 9mm version of the Lyman #452374. If cast kinda hard (92/6/2), they run like water through all 9mms. An OAL of 1.135" should work well.
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