Today at the Bench.....

[Mbaker78]

I melted down the undersized pulls from my learning experience. Something like 500 40cal bullets that got post sized down to .397-.399” by the factory crimp die. Powder coat really stinks when melting down. I was going to make a couple ingots and pour the rest as bullets, but noticed I had crap flow, so I ended up pouring some ugly ingots and cleaning the nozzle. I might get back out there and turn them into bullets, but I might just wait until next week or so.

[JeffreyDeGraff]

I melted down the undersized pulls from my learning experience. Something like 500 40cal bullets that got post sized down to .397-.399” by the factory crimp die. Powder coat really stinks when melting down. I was going to make a couple ingots and pour the rest as bullets, but noticed I had crap flow, so I ended up pouring some ugly ingots and cleaning the nozzle. I might get back out there and turn them into bullets, but I might just wait until next week or so.

I was wondering how the powder coating was going to work out when you melted it down


JTD

[Mbaker78]

I was wondering how the powder coating was going to work out when you melted it down


JTD

It just made a huge stink and all settled to the top. I skimmed it off when I fluxed.

The plugged nozzle was just from use, I've probably run close to 200lbs of material through it now, so it was due for a cleaning anyway.