I was volunteering at a recycling center this morning when a guy came in with trailerfull of the rustiest junk you can imagine. Found a nice Stanley No.6 jack plane and a really, really rusty (like solid lump of rust) Ideal-brand bullet mold/combo reloading tool for .38 S&W.
I thought I'd just look at it and throw it out when I got home, but I boiled the thing in an electrolysis bucket for a couple hours and scrubbed all the rust off. Ugly as sin but it's still usable. Cast my first bullets today with it and they came out pretty OK looking for a newbie.
Never tried reloading-related work before and I don't have anything that shoots .38 S&W but I can see how this can be fun. Wonder if there's any market for antique-tool-cast S&W bullets.
I thought I'd just look at it and throw it out when I got home, but I boiled the thing in an electrolysis bucket for a couple hours and scrubbed all the rust off. Ugly as sin but it's still usable. Cast my first bullets today with it and they came out pretty OK looking for a newbie.
Never tried reloading-related work before and I don't have anything that shoots .38 S&W but I can see how this can be fun. Wonder if there's any market for antique-tool-cast S&W bullets.