Solar jou lekker ding!

[oafpatroll]

It just occurred to me that the bullets I made for load dev on my new revolver yesterday cost me nothing except powdercoat as they were made from 100% range scrap I had collected on my last few club shoots and the melting pot and powder coating oven were both running off solar. That means they cost an almost incalculably small amount in powder.

I got a new to me pair of moulds on saturday and inclusive of mould degreasing, handle assembly and smoking I had a batch of roughly 100 of each powder coated and ready for sizing at 5pm and everything packed away from a cold start at 1:30. I find bullet making quite relaxing and now that I can do some of it for damn near free I'm extra chuffed.

[shark_za]

Make sure you have lots of ventilation when working with molten lead

[oafpatroll]

Make sure you have lots of ventilation when working with molten lead

Good advice that. I only process waste lead and cast outside.

[zguy]

Looks good. Where do we place our orders?

[oafpatroll]

Looks good. Where do we place our orders?

From the sounds coming out of the wife, with her. I don't get enough free lead to make using that practical and the price of range scrap has risen to the point were the margin is not really attractive. One could probably remain fed by doing it but I imagine you'd need to set up for some fairly serious volume to make it viable.