Need to pour lead into a pendulum bob that has a dummy pendulum rod going
through it. I'd like to be able to remove the rod after the lead hardens.
Is there some sort of release compound I can use?
Thanks
You might try a number of things, but lead doesn't usually stick to
aluminum, the oxide coating prevents it. I'd do a trial first with
something like a tin can for a container that you could sacrifice
easily if things became stuck. I've used soapstone to keep solder from
spreading but try bare nekkid aluminum first, might be all you need.
Stan
You might try a number of things, but lead doesn't usually stick to
aluminum, the oxide coating prevents it. I'd do a trial first with
something like a tin can for a container that you could sacrifice
easily if things became stuck. I've used soapstone to keep solder from
spreading but try bare nekkid aluminum first, might be all you need.
Stan
When I was melting down bullet heads - 45 ACP IIRC - U.S. Army Rifle and Pistol
range -
I Smoked the forms with a waxy smoke - think of the oily candles 5 or so in a box
that are used to heat food and such....
A long wick is smoky and I think the smoke (carbon black ) does the trick.
Martin
Pffbbt, just get some plain old sodium fluoride. *Googles*
Hmm, actually that stuff melts pretty hot. Then unless it has a real low
melting eutectic with aluminum oxide, what DO they use...? Hmm, looks like
bromides might have low enough melting points to work...
Tim
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Whats a bullet head?
Gunner
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state of moral and patriotic feeling
which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing
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You've got to be kidding! There are plenty of "Bullet Heads" that post here
regularly, though I don't know how easily they will melt and how much
skimming of spooge you might have to do to cast them into something useful.
I think the molds on the A.C. Gilbert lead soldier casting set (the one
with the electricly heated ladle) I had as a kid were aluminum.
Too damn bad the lawyers made them stop selling those, and the chemistry
sets too!
Jeff
I have no credentials to tell anyone anything on this ng, but intrigued
as I am by your problem (I cast lead bullets), what about making a mold
for the bob, then inserting it. The mold should be relatively easy to
fabricate. I assume you want the lead just for weight.
Actually, with my Finn/Germanic genetic traits, Im more square headed.
Gunner
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded
state of moral and patriotic feeling
which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing
for which he is willing to fight,
nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable
creature and has no chance of being
free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
- John Stewart Mill
state of moral and patriotic feeling
nothing for which he is willing to fight,
creature and has no chance of being
That is what we called them - the shell casing holds the primer. The powder is
placed
within. A bullet (head) is then inserted. A metal jacket - with a lead open
rear end.
These were 45's not 0-.50 boat tails.
I was smart enough back then not to melt down full bullets! Had to walk pulling
my wagon about 6 or so miles down hill with a loaded wagon. UP hill was empty.
I lived down in the flood zone - and the range was somewhat up hill of HWY 54.
Martin
Martin
Those sound like what I had - I think maybe aluminum or white metal of sorts.
Still have some of the small ingots I made. It was dirty work as the
heads were only copper plated. The steel was rusting away.
I saw chem sets last year in a science store. Not near as complete.
Martin
Chuckle..Id not heard that usage before from somone who does know
something about firearms as you obviously do.
So I was pulling your chain.
Cartridge= complete unit
Round = complete unit
Cartridge Case = Brass unit
Case = brass unit
Bullet = projectile (no matter the style)
This also applies to self consuming cartridges, just leave out the
word brass and subsitute self consuming.
Gunner
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded
state of moral and patriotic feeling
which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing
for which he is willing to fight,
nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable
creature and has no chance of being
free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
- John Stewart Mill
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