Standing tall bullets for PC
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California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
Sideways acting gravity. Quite common in an area in the Insanity Cruz mountains, at a tourist destination called The Mystery Spot.
The Mystery Spot Official Website
Experience strange natural phenomena at this mysterious tourist attraction located in Santa Cruz, CA. Shop the online gift store and view pictures and videos of this very unique Mystery Spot.
Ian
Notorious member
Just wait till he gets a four jaw.
Ooops. Just looked again
Thought I read you need one
What I need is a bigger independent 4-jaw chuck. My current one is only 4". Plenty good enough for gunsmithing and such but too small to be practical for a lot of other things. Little Machine Shop has a 5" with adapter plate to fit my spindle for $142.
CWLONGSHOT
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Ancient Chinese secret!
Ian
Notorious member
Gas check them first for best stability. Ask your wife to transfer the tray to the oven for you.
Bruce Drake
Active Member
I use two sizes of hardware cloth (wire mesh) with .25" and .5" openings as grids to keep my coated rifle bullets standing up during the baking process. I didn't think of it myself but I read it on another forum on how to keep bullets upright during the proofing process.
Missionary
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That is a photo I need to remember ! Even I can bend those little wires and make that stand work on a tray .
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CWLONGSHOT
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NOT all Powders are created equil. But once found you will see stand up isnt only way to assure perfect bullet coating.
But some very nice powders that wont allow laying in a basket can produce good results standing.
But some very nice powders that wont allow laying in a basket can produce good results standing.
Glaciers
Alaska Land of the Midnight Sun
There are some rifle bullets I will stand up and the hardware cloth does the trick for the smaller diameter, 32 caliber and smaller. The larger rifle bullets really don't need much help. But handgun slugs get layout and spread in a single layer. As I said I use the same baskets as CW, which make it easy to do the shake in your plastic tub and dump into a basket which is over a cookie sheet and just shake the basket for the excess powder to fall through onto the cookie sheet. Next I just make sure the bullets are not on top of another bullet. Some don't care, just dump them in and shake off the excess powder and bake the pile. Any of it works if you immediately dump your bullets onto a towel for AC, or into water for quenched bullets.
As far as quenching goes so far I am not finding the need for it. The old, 30 to 40 year old COWW I have age harden up to 18. Most of what I'm doing rifle wise, is better no harder than about 12. Handguns at 6 to 7ish under 800, and about 9 to 10 for magnum handguns. Still working out the blend, all of which is on hold till freeze up.
As far as quenching goes so far I am not finding the need for it. The old, 30 to 40 year old COWW I have age harden up to 18. Most of what I'm doing rifle wise, is better no harder than about 12. Handguns at 6 to 7ish under 800, and about 9 to 10 for magnum handguns. Still working out the blend, all of which is on hold till freeze up.
Don't know about the mystery spot but remember a spot north of LA in the mountains, would swear you were driving up hill but in neutral you went backwards. Long time ago when I was spraying I made a plate with holes for the noses. Spray, into oven for bake. They did shoot good even with an uneven ogive coating - for 308W. Just couldn't get many on the plate due to adjacent bullet charge.
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CWLONGSHOT
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Haha Thank you!
Like I tell everyone. We "MAKE TIME" for whats important to us.
Truth told, for the last five or so years before 2020, I averaged 67 hr weeks. Many went over 90.... Since Covid 40-45 seems like prt time. I dont sit still.
May God Bless,
CW
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