Your powder coated bullets might be illegal.

    Make sure the powder coat you’re using does not contain Teflon. Here is the Wikipedia info on it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teflon-coated_bullet Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) is a synthetic fluoropolymer of tetrafluoroethylene that has numerous applications. The best known brand name of PTFE-based formulas is Teflon by Chemours.[2] Chemours is a spin-off of DuPont Co.,[3] which discovered the compound in 1938.[2] PTFE is a fluorocarbon

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Drill Press Lead BHN Hardness Tester

Just using my Harbor Freight Drill Press and a 10 dollar bathroom scale. If you don’t have a drill press you could use a big “C” clamp as well. To get the Brinell Hardness Number of a lead ingot. Full disclosure : You should really use a ball at the end of the drill bit or at least round it off. I just did not have a trash but to…

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Pencil hardness test versus Brinell hardness of lead alloys

Pencil, hardness, test, versus ,Brinell, hardness, of, lead, alloys,   Using a Pencil to find out the hardness of a lead alloy. This is useful in reloading. Buying a hardness tester is better and way more expensive. But this will get you in the ball park. Lee Precision Lead Hardness Test Kit. http://amzn.to/28RK1jT Staedtler Lumograph Graphite Drawing and Sketching Pencils http://amzn.to/28XFMCg Get the chart here http://tinyurl.com/z6gmgxl The music is “So…

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