Wheel Weight Lead Hardness at Patsy Walker blog

Wheel Weight Lead Hardness. Wheel weights can be found anyplace that sells tires and are perhaps the most available and inexpensive material for bullet casting. If you want harder cast bullets, simply cold water quench your wheel weight bullets as they fall from the hot mold. Hey guys, just showing how i identify and separate lead wheel weights from steel or zinc weights. According to the cabin tree hardness tester chart, it will take. Wheel weight is molten at 505f, pure lead at 621f and zinc at 787f. To further harden them, i water quench the bullets right from the mold. The step is not necessary for pistol but is a step that works for me. But, published info indicates that wheel weights are about: Lead does not react the same as steel and it will be the same hardness throughout. 8 bhn immediately after casting and air. Wheel weights, chilled shot and magnum shot are excellent sources of arsenical lead alloys for the bullet caster to enrich his antimony. It may take just a bit longer for the center to reach this. I don't have a hardness tester, either. By keeping the alloy temperature in the wheel weight/lead range the zinc will not melt. You can alloy pure lead with a lead/tin solder in ratios to get a desired hardness but for my casting purpose wheel weights (about 95.5% lead,.5% tin, and 4% antimony) work in my pistols.

To further harden them, i water quench the bullets right from the mold. I don't have a hardness tester, either. Wheel weight is molten at 505f, pure lead at 621f and zinc at 787f. According to the cabin tree hardness tester chart, it will take. By keeping the alloy temperature in the wheel weight/lead range the zinc will not melt. 8 bhn immediately after casting and air. But, published info indicates that wheel weights are about: The step is not necessary for pistol but is a step that works for me. If you want harder cast bullets, simply cold water quench your wheel weight bullets as they fall from the hot mold. Lead does not react the same as steel and it will be the same hardness throughout.

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Wheel Weight Lead Hardness Arsenic itself adds very little to the hardness of lead alloys. Lead does not react the same as steel and it will be the same hardness throughout. 8 bhn immediately after casting and air. I don't have a hardness tester, either. The step is not necessary for pistol but is a step that works for me. Arsenic itself adds very little to the hardness of lead alloys. If you want harder cast bullets, simply cold water quench your wheel weight bullets as they fall from the hot mold. Wheel weight is molten at 505f, pure lead at 621f and zinc at 787f. Wheel weights can be found anyplace that sells tires and are perhaps the most available and inexpensive material for bullet casting. Hey guys, just showing how i identify and separate lead wheel weights from steel or zinc weights. It may take just a bit longer for the center to reach this. You can alloy pure lead with a lead/tin solder in ratios to get a desired hardness but for my casting purpose wheel weights (about 95.5% lead,.5% tin, and 4% antimony) work in my pistols. Wheel weights, chilled shot and magnum shot are excellent sources of arsenical lead alloys for the bullet caster to enrich his antimony. But, published info indicates that wheel weights are about: To further harden them, i water quench the bullets right from the mold. By keeping the alloy temperature in the wheel weight/lead range the zinc will not melt.