More bin-diving

[aris]

If you mean the white wax candles that won't do. Beeswax is a flux. When you melt bullet lead the tin separates out and floats on the surface like a grey scum. If you drop a pea size piece of beeswax in and stir it round it will pull the tin back into the melt. After it has had a good stirring there will be what looks like black grit on top of the alloyed lead. Scoop this off and chuck it away.

Lots of people use white paraffin wax. Watch the video I linked to above - he demonstrates it.

Also http://www.lasc.us/FryxellFluxing.htm

More info on casting

http://www.lasc.us/ArticlesFryxell.htm

[Black Beard]

You can use sawdust to. Get it from a pet store or run a HW35 stock through a circular saw.

[enfield2band]

Lots of people use white paraffin wax. Watch the video I linked to above - he demonstrates it.

Also http://www.lasc.us/FryxellFluxing.htm

More info on casting

http://www.lasc.us/ArticlesFryxell.htm

I have never found paraffin wax to be effective.
Another thing to bear in mind is that when it burns off the smoke is more volatile than beeswax.

[DesG]

Download 'From Ingot to Target'. Bullet casting lore going back to before time began. I've been casting since the seventies and still learnt lots of new (old?) stuff.

[aris]

Download 'From Ingot to Target'. Bullet casting lore going back to before time began. I've been casting since the seventies and still learnt lots of new (old?) stuff.

Co-written by the same chap who wrote the link I posted above.

Here is a link to the PDF:
http://marvinstuart.com/firearm/Manu...yxell_Book.pdf

[jamesg]

Hi.

Its nice to get free lead for the melting pot. I was wondering what the other range users think, some might get a bit narky if they are not getting a share.
I'm interested to know how to overcome the dripping from my Melter. It seems to build up some strange stuff around the hole and stop it from sealing.
I thought everything would have floated to the top as slag. I know your not meant to let it get to empty. I had quite a job getting the crud off it to get it working/sealing again. I use the flux purchased from Brownells you do not need much per melt.

James

[tinbum]

Hi.

Its nice to get free lead for the melting pot. I was wondering what the other range users think, some might get a bit narky if they are not getting a share.


James

Hi James, reloading isn't a "thing" here, a few do it to a certain degree, but Johnny Frog generally cannot be arsed!
This is why I am amassing quite a collection of brass for which I just need the corresponding guns.

I had an email from le pres de la club yesterday asking if anyone wanted green sheets (prefectural permissions for cat b weapons) so I asked for one for an AR15, one for an AK and one for a PPK plus a couple of spares just in case. That takes me up to eight which is the recognised number of cat b's you can have before Les Rozzers want to come and check you have a safe. I have one each for long guns, pistols and ammo and comply and all that, but I want to wait til I have my secure armoury completed before I get them around for a beer and a nosey.