Testing The Hardness Of Zinc Andy79Z28

Nope, NOT behind enemy lines. Just 300 pounds of future blaster pills.p I inventoried my lead stash. I actually have closer to 400#, but two pails are deeply stashed under the steps where I need a come-along to drag them out, so just estimating they weigh 100#. They were wheel weights I salvaged so they […]

Lee Hardness Tester Stand

A video with a few 'hints & tips' about the way I cast .38/.357 FWC's; figuring how much lead to blend, weighing it out, setting up the lead pot w/PID and mould oven and casting good casts from the first pour.

Hello everyone, I’m in the process of loading all my YouTube videos here to our website, and to BitChute.com. We had a YouTube live stream last night, and I had trouble getting on live. I’m not sure if I was doing something wrong, but I suspect it was the powers-that-be at the other, big site. […]

Does Cast Bullet Hardness change over 24 Hours? In my last article, we took a look at some tests comparing air-cooled and water-quenched bullets, and reviewed the data from both.  During the preparation for that post, I took it upon myself to cast enough ‘spare’ bullets of both varieties to perform additional testing in the […]

It's been three months since we cast up a batch of water-quenched and air-cooled bullets as part of our ongoing lead hardness testing project.  Let's see if they've changed.

It's now been six months since we made a batch of air-cooled and water-quenched for our series on lead hardness testing. Let's see where things are at.

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Getting all my stock updated with their Brinell Hardness re-tested and think I may have discovered a ‘free’ source of Tin we may have been overlooking. Part of these test will be using lead that most of us casters have on hand, using lead that is cheap and readily available to us. CharlieBrassStufferBorn in 1950…HS […]

Brine is used in a number of heat treatments, particularly for steel, so I'm interested to see how it works with my wheel-weight alloy.  For this experiment I'll be using an 8:1 mixture of water and Sodium Chloride (Table Salt) at room temperature.

Using The TRN Microscope Stand for the Lee Hardness Testing Kit

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