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- Wood Stock care - The Firearms Forum
Cleaned with pure paint thinner, dried, first two applications were 50 50 mix of BLO turpentine to get into wood and grain followed by one coat of 25 75 turpentine BLO, and finally straight BLO Quite satisfied Prior was an original 1885 Winchester made in 1892 Stripped original finish, sanded with 400 grit then 200
- Battery Lead - The Firearms Forum
I know this question has probably been asked before but I’m curious Is lead from a car battery very hard? Just wanting to know if it would be any good for casting bullets
- Light and Fast vs Slow and Heavy - The Firearms Forum
For pure energy, it's hard to beat small and fast As Ron Spomer has pointed out, if you take a given mass at a given velocity and then double the mass, you double the energy But if you double the velocity instead, you quadruple the energy But speed alone, energy alone, doesn't kill
- Cleaning a stainless steel revolver? | The Firearms Forum
The reason firearms are not made of high quality non magnetic SS is simple High grade SS will gall when friction parts that are both pure SS rub together, and eat themselves up Plus pure SS is very tough to machine, and requires expensive tooling They should be called "stain resistant", not stainless steel
- why are bullets jacketed? - The Firearms Forum
The main reason for jacketed bullets was the introduction of smokeless powders that increased both velocities and chamber pressures that lead bullets or paper patched bullets could not handle And the cost of making bullets out of pure brass or copper was very expensive, mainly due to those bullets needing a lot of manpower to turn each bullet instead of just swaging thin jackets over lead
- hollow base bullet mold? - The Firearms Forum
i have come into a rolling block 44 center fire extra long it came with some brass and cast lead bullets the bullets are hollow base the question is who makes a hollow base bullet mold? also is the casting of a hollow base more trouble than it is worth? Accurate molds says "outsource of
- WD 40 threat - The Firearms Forum
I read a lot of WD 40 bashing Is there anything in the chemical that would damage a finish? I'm talking about using it to wipe off finger prints etc
- Using zinc pennies in bullet casting? | The Firearms Forum
The problem with the zinc pennies is that they aren't pure zinc The 1943 pennies were zinc coated steel and the melting point of steel is close to 2,000F From 1982 onward the composition of the penny is 97 5% zinc and 2 5% copper (copper coated zinc)
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