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The purer the lead the larger the cast product. It is possible to have some tin or antimony in lead and still have it pass the thumbnail test. Metal with tin or antimony in it will cast smaller than pure lead. I would also suggest raising the casting temperature a little. For anybody casting...

A very nice Christmas present- lovely clear pictures and fascinating guns. Thank you for sharing pictures of a place I can never go.

If if you know anybody working in a hospital or medical lab you may be able to get some expired vacutainer tubes. These are the little tubes they use to take blood samples. They have different colors of stoppers because they start with a little stabilized liquid in them specific to the type...

For round barrels acid etching will work well. Basically you are preparing us template which you tape to the barrel then swab on the acid solution that etches the lettering or design. For deeper etching you would use multiple acid applications. Google ”etch metal” and there is lots of...

I recently took a macro photo course from a professional (product) photographer For his professional work he still uses very expensive digital cameras but for personal work he has generally abandoned his expensive regular digital cameras in favour of his i-phone. Recent generations of...

Unfortunately I do not have welding facilities, nor the skill and finding a welder to do the job properly is problematic where I.am. JBW may not be traditional, but it is a method that works and is readily available to me. There are many ways to crack a nut.

Like shoes, a worn out frizzen can easily be re-soled if a replacement is not readily available or one wants to keep the original. I have done a couple for self and friends. on eBay I bought a clock spring of appropriate width and cut off a piece of appropriate length. A smear of JB Weld on...

Many thanks Colimr, that is exactly the information I needed. Traditions have the sight blade on back order and, as I have lots of bits of flat brass stock handy from model making, I figured I would just make a copy of the original with my “Chinese milling machine“ - file 🥴

I bought a Traditions Trapper percussion 50 cal pistol that is missing the front sight blade. I would really appreciate if somebody who has a trapper could tell me: The height of the brass blade above the dovetail sight block? The length of the blade and The thickness of the blade Many thanks

Hello everybody. For anybody casting for muzzleloader or unmentionables, there is an excellent downloadable free book on the Los Angeles Silhouette Club site lasc.us titled “From ingot to target”. It is the best resource I have found in my 50 years of casting. I use it a a resource in the...

The Lee Pro 4 pot has a nozzle that can be unscrewed and replaced. My older Lee pots were a bit harder to keep clear because the passage to the spout was at an angle whereas for the Pro 4 it is a straight drop. I did find an appropriately sized drill bit with a hex shaft and have found that...

Last week a friend brought me a flintlock pistol by an unknown Spanish maker. it had a somewhat ornamental frizzen. The face was in bad shape, badly worn, scored and rutted. It barely sparked at all. He wanted to see if I could harden it. I was reluctant to try hardening it as I was...

Back when stainless revolvers were quite a new innovation one of our club members bought a new stainless Ruger Old Army. He delighted in telling us all winter how easy it was to clean in the dishwasher with the heat dry cycle. Spring came and he put it away to play with other toys. Next...

this is for c&b revolvers use a regular nra pistol centre parch The object is to get the lowest score, and all shots off the paper count as 10 ideally you hit the corners which are the lowest scoring point on the paper, but then you have a good chance of going off the paper and getting a...

I have not tried this for black powder, but the same thing might work. I needed to make a simple air pistol pellet trap. Made a square box frame. Fixed a piece of Kevlar cloth that I had to the top leaving the bottom loose with a bit of weight attached to the bottom, so that it could swing...

Don’t be a ball jerk - zero! A 45 cal rifle that a friend brought me had an old full load caked and stuck in it. I was able to get the nipple out after soaking with oil. I bought a brass zerk grease nipple. It was a tad oversized so I turned it down in a drill with a file and then threaded...

The brand is Gig-a-Loo Extreme Graphite I am up in Canada and bought it at a Canadian chain but if you google it you should find plenty outlets in your area

I have many molds, both iron and Lee aluminum. One of the nice things about the Lee molds is that you can bring them up to heat fast either by sitting them on the edge of the pot or by dipping the bottom of the blocks in the metal for a few seconds until the lead falls off when you pull the...