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    Hardening Springs without a workspace

    Yes, LRB has good info. I would suggest that you do your own experimentation with a sample of your chosen annealed spring stock, say 1/4" wide by 2" or 3" long. Heat the strip so that the heat varies from a dull red to a glowing orange along its length, then quench. Remember where the varied...
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    lead testing

    I obtained 500 pounds of lead containers with lids. They were about the size of 35mm film cans, only taller, and with 1/8" wall thickness. All had radiation stickers, as they had shielded vials of radioactive sodium iodide. My PHD daughter in law, who worked at the lab from which these were...
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    Black powder shooting`s getting ex-Pen-SIVE!!!

    I did say that I bought LOTS of caps....35,000 to be exact, which works out to 700 per year so far. Also have Remington and RWS, and Alcan caps.. The keg of 3F has been supplemented with lots of GOEX, CIL, Elephant and other brands along the way. I am feeding a lot of equipment including a...
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    Black powder shooting`s getting ex-Pen-SIVE!!!

    Just reflecting back in time for you younger fellows.... at the matches in Friendship, back in the early 1970's, I was picking up several cans of powder from a vendor in commercial row, when he mentioned that he had 25 pound kegs in the truck. How much ?? This was DuPont, not Goex, and the big...
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    Hello from frigid Wisconsin

    Almost scary to think that I have been shooting BP for over 55 years. Shot my first deer with a Jerry Marsh half stock plains rifle more than a half century ago. Yup, still have that rifle. And here I am in the computer age. Phylax
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