RogerRevo 05 May 2018

My 50 years of casting bullets - RogerRevo

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50 years of casting bullets

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Read Lyman Cast Bullet Handbook 3rd edition

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Protective Clothing for casting bullets

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Fluxing the lead alloy

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Smoke Exhaust System for lead casting

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Preheating Bullet Molds on electric hot plate

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Casting With two 1 cavity molds

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Knocking open sprue plates on bullet molds

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Saving sprues from the previous casting session

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Putting Sprues into the Furnace

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Putting an Ingot into the Furnace

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Dropping Bullets Onto the Drop Cloth

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Removing Bullets From Drop Cloth

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Casting With Two 4 cavity Saeco Molds

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Bottom Pour Spout left side view

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Casting with 4&8 cavity molds, Right side view

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Casting with 4&8 cavity molds, left side view

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Filling 4&8 cavity Molds, Right side view

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Filling 4&8 cavity Molds, left side view

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Filling 4 cavity mold, front view

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Cast Bullets Production

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After the bullet casting is finished

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Torch used to clean lead off bullet molds

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Cleaning lead off a bullet mold with a torch

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Graphite Paint On Bullet Mold

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Putting Graphite Paint on the Bullet Mold

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Making Flux In The Kitchen

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A Damaged Sprue Plate

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Casting a Lead Hammer

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Fluxing with cooking oil in an oil can

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Spout freeze - its cause and cure

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Mistake free melting wheelweights to avoid zinc contamination.

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How to keep the sprue plate pivot bolt from loosening on your bullet mold

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Casting buckshot and Lyman sabot slugs

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Sprue Metal Draw Down

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Casting .50 caliber Maxi-Balls

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Melting Wheelweights

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Draining casting furnace

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Casting with 2 different size buckshot

50 years of casting bullets

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I have learned some things in my 50 years of casting bullets.
I would like to share a few ideas which have worked for me.
This video is part of a playlist called
"My 50 Years of Casting Bullets".

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