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What do you use to "Flux" your lead with? #8764331 04/09/14 Joined: Oct 2011 Posts: 59,046 Next to the dump that Del Shan... 12344mag OP Campfire Kahuna OP 12344mag Campfire Kahuna Joined: Oct 2011 Posts: 59,046 Next to the dump that Del Shan... I use old candles the wife don't want anymore. Paul "I'd rather see a sermon than hear a sermon".... D.A.D. Trump Won!, Sandmann Won!, Rittenhouse Won!, Suck it Liberal Fuuktards. molɔ̀ːn labé skýla

Re: What do you use to "Flux" your lead with? 12344mag #8764404 04/09/14 Joined: Apr 2011 Posts: 69,173 TX chlinstructor Campfire Kahuna chlinstructor Campfire Kahuna Joined: Apr 2011 Posts: 69,173 TX Bullet lube works great, like the blue stuff you use to lube cast bullets. The red bullet lube works great too. "Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!" ~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~

Re: What do you use to "Flux" your lead with? chlinstructor #8764595 04/09/14 Joined: Feb 2011 Posts: 1,071 In The Hardwoods Creeker Campfire Regular Creeker Campfire Regular Joined: Feb 2011 Posts: 1,071 In The Hardwoods Fine dry sawdust works great. Psalm 12:6 https://www.youtube.com/@creeker6422/videos

Re: What do you use to "Flux" your lead with? Creeker #8764805 04/09/14 Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 19,822 Alaska/Texas A APDDSN0864 Campfire Ranger APDDSN0864 Campfire Ranger A Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 19,822 Alaska/Texas I stir with a piece of very rich heart pine. I get the best of both worlds, resin that literally boils out of the wood, and the wood itself. Makes for very clean alloy. Ed "Not in an open forum, where truth has less value than opinions, where all opinions are equally welcome regardless of their origins, rationale, inanity, or truth, where opinions are neither of equal value nor decisive." Ken Howell

Re: What do you use to "Flux" your lead with? APDDSN0864 #8764860 04/09/14 Joined: Mar 2014 Posts: 14 nevada, carson city badbob New Member badbob New Member Joined: Mar 2014 Posts: 14 nevada, carson city sawdust chipper wood and candle wax all works good , i have even used dried leaves

Re: What do you use to "Flux" your lead with? badbob #8765104 04/10/14 Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 5,737 Richmond, Virginia arkypete Campfire Tracker arkypete Campfire Tracker Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 5,737 Richmond, Virginia Canning parafin, candle stubs, left over b'day candles, bullet lube. they all work. Jim Last edited by arkypete; 04/10/14. "Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force." --Thomas Jefferson

Re: What do you use to "Flux" your lead with? arkypete #8765394 04/10/14 Joined: Feb 2013 Posts: 197 N novalty Campfire Member novalty Campfire Member N Joined: Feb 2013 Posts: 197 Dry sawdust, flux 3 times per batch.

Re: What do you use to "Flux" your lead with? novalty #8765521 04/10/14 Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 23,081 Annapolis, Md. G gnoahhh Campfire Ranger gnoahhh Campfire Ranger G Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 23,081 Annapolis, Md. A pea sized chunk of beeswax, stirred in, and lit with a match when it starts to smoke. "You can lead a man to logic, but you cannot make him think." Joe Harz "Always certain, often right." Keith McCafferty

Re: What do you use to "Flux" your lead with? gnoahhh #8765596 04/10/14 Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 80 J Jensen Campfire Greenhorn Jensen Campfire Greenhorn J Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 80 Mavelflux for indoors bullet casting. Many things when meting and fluxing for ingots outdoors.

Re: What do you use to "Flux" your lead with? Jensen #8765762 04/10/14 Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 837 Nashville, TN PMC Campfire Regular PMC Campfire Regular Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 837 Nashville, TN Flux with pine sawdust Reduce with candle wax http://www.lasc.us/Fryxell_Book_Chapter_4_Fluxing.htm shhh. be vewy vewy quiet. i'm hunting deer. uhhh uhhh uhhhh.

Re: What do you use to "Flux" your lead with? PMC #8766343 04/10/14 Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 524 outside Lansing mI C clintsfolly Campfire Regular clintsfolly Campfire Regular C Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 524 outside Lansing mI Used moter oil good way to use it up and cleans real good. Clint just for Fun

Re: What do you use to "Flux" your lead with? clintsfolly #8766901 04/10/14 Joined: Aug 2008 Posts: 1,532 IA J JSH Campfire Regular JSH Campfire Regular J Joined: Aug 2008 Posts: 1,532 IA Wood dowel. It's nice to be able to use your 'flux' to scrape the sides of your pot.

Re: What do you use to "Flux" your lead with? JSH #8767640 04/10/14 Joined: May 2004 Posts: 56,090 In the Swamps DigitalDan Campfire Kahuna DigitalDan Campfire Kahuna Joined: May 2004 Posts: 56,090 In the Swamps Cedar dust I am..........disturbed. Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain

Re: What do you use to "Flux" your lead with? DigitalDan #8767789 04/10/14 Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 10,351 Asheville, NC B blammer Campfire Outfitter blammer Campfire Outfitter B Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 10,351 Asheville, NC I use anything that will burn. Sawdust, beeswax, slum gum, candles, paper, whatever is handy. Whatever you are willing to put up with, is exactly what you will have. When your ship comes in. ... make sure you are willing to unload it. PAYPAL, sucks and I will never use them again. I recommend you do the same.

Re: What do you use to "Flux" your lead with? blammer #8769978 04/11/14 Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 6,926 Upper Midwest selmer Campfire Tracker selmer Campfire Tracker Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 6,926 Upper Midwest Anything but Marvelux...sticky, gummy, junk. Selmer "Daddy, can you sometime maybe please go shoot a water buffalo so we can have that for supper? Please? And can I come along? Does it taste like deer?" - my 3-year old daughter

Re: What do you use to "Flux" your lead with? Creeker #8777485 04/14/14 Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 19,503 Tip of the Mitten bruinruin Campfire Ranger bruinruin Campfire Ranger Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 19,503 Tip of the Mitten Originally Posted by Creeker Fine dry sawdust works great. Yep, I just reach under the table saw and grab a handful. Handy, plentiful and effective. 4 out of 5 Great Lakes prefer Michigan.

Re: What do you use to "Flux" your lead with? bruinruin #8777502 04/14/14 Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 26,524 Old North State RWE Campfire Ranger RWE Campfire Ranger Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 26,524 Old North State liberals. Dried and powdered. (actually saw dust, or the sap resin from the peach tree just outside my shop)

Re: What do you use to "Flux" your lead with? RWE #8777524 04/14/14 Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 19,503 Tip of the Mitten bruinruin Campfire Ranger bruinruin Campfire Ranger Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 19,503 Tip of the Mitten Originally Posted by RWE liberals. Dried and powdered. (actually saw dust, or the sap resin from the peach tree just outside my shop) I find liberals too hard to clean. It's that mile wide mud vein they have. 4 out of 5 Great Lakes prefer Michigan.

Re: What do you use to "Flux" your lead with? bruinruin #8777532 04/14/14 Joined: May 2004 Posts: 10,872 C CrowRifle Campfire Outfitter CrowRifle Campfire Outfitter C Joined: May 2004 Posts: 10,872 And the smell would be overpowering.

Re: What do you use to "Flux" your lead with? bruinruin #8778253 04/14/14 Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 19,822 Alaska/Texas A APDDSN0864 Campfire Ranger APDDSN0864 Campfire Ranger A Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 19,822 Alaska/Texas Originally Posted by bruinruin Originally Posted by RWE liberals. Dried and powdered. (actually saw dust, or the sap resin from the peach tree just outside my shop) I find liberals too hard to clean. It's that mile wide mud vein they have. You guys must be using the rare "pin-head" species. The "fat-head" species we have here are too big to process, much less stick in the dehydrator. Ed "Not in an open forum, where truth has less value than opinions, where all opinions are equally welcome regardless of their origins, rationale, inanity, or truth, where opinions are neither of equal value nor decisive." Ken Howell