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What do you use to "Flux" your lead with? #8764331 04/09/14 Joined: Oct 2011 Posts: 59,049 Next to the dump that Del Shan... 12344mag OP Campfire Kahuna OP 12344mag Campfire Kahuna Joined: Oct 2011 Posts: 59,049 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: 69,194 TX chlinstructor Campfire Kahuna chlinstructor Campfire Kahuna Joined: Apr 2011 Posts: 69,194 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: 23,083 Annapolis, Md. G gnoahhh Campfire Ranger gnoahhh Campfire Ranger G Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 23,083 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: 56,098 In the Swamps DigitalDan Campfire Kahuna DigitalDan Campfire Kahuna Joined: May 2004 Posts: 56,098 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

Re: What do you use to "Flux" your lead with? RWE #8782469 04/15/14 Joined: Oct 2011 Posts: 59,049 Next to the dump that Del Shan... 12344mag OP Campfire Kahuna OP 12344mag Campfire Kahuna Joined: Oct 2011 Posts: 59,049 Next to the dump that Del Shan... Originally Posted by RWE liberals. Dried and powdered. I don't understand, why would you want your bullets to smell like chit?? 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 #8783619 04/16/14 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 12344mag Originally Posted by RWE liberals. Dried and powdered. I don't understand, why would you want your bullets to smell like chit?? For those who like the "Texas Heart Shot". 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 #8783645 04/16/14 Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 26,524 Old North State RWE Campfire Ranger RWE Campfire Ranger Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 26,524 Old North State It's a cover scent. The hogs think they've found a mate. Then WHAM! Hammer of Thor....

Re: What do you use to "Flux" your lead with? RWE #8794205 04/19/14 Joined: Apr 2013 Posts: 14,039 North of Bonners Ferry ID. deerstalker Campfire Outfitter deerstalker Campfire Outfitter Joined: Apr 2013 Posts: 14,039 North of Bonners Ferry ID. LMAO! the consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded. Robert E Lee ~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~

Re: What do you use to "Flux" your lead with? RWE #8808246 04/24/14 Joined: Oct 2011 Posts: 59,049 Next to the dump that Del Shan... 12344mag OP Campfire Kahuna OP 12344mag Campfire Kahuna Joined: Oct 2011 Posts: 59,049 Next to the dump that Del Shan... Originally Posted by RWE It's a cover scent. The hogs think they've found a mate. Then WHAM! Hammer of Thor.... I wanna shoot a pig so bad I can taste it........Damn, I sure do love bacon. 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? PMC #8931442 06/09/14 Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 7,437 Tennessee T TNrifleman Campfire Tracker TNrifleman Campfire Tracker T Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 7,437 Tennessee Paraffin has worked well for me. μολὼν λαβέ

Re: What do you use to "Flux" your lead with? PMC #8933118 06/09/14 Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 524 outside Lansing mI C clintsfolly Campfire Regular clintsfolly Campfire Regular C Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 524 outside Lansing mI One time I found a small metal box in a bucket of WW ,s inside was these small thin papers and this funny smelling green herb it all made great flux but all the boolits shot just a little high in the target:). Clint just for Fun

Re: What do you use to "Flux" your lead with? clintsfolly #8933166 06/09/14 Joined: Feb 2011 Posts: 1,071 In The Hardwoods Creeker Campfire Regular Creeker Campfire Regular Joined: Feb 2011 Posts: 1,071 In The Hardwoods You've been in the woods too long Clint. Psalm 12:6 https://www.youtube.com/@creeker6422/videos

Re: What do you use to "Flux" your lead with? Creeker #8935445 06/10/14 Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 524 outside Lansing mI C clintsfolly Campfire Regular clintsfolly Campfire Regular C Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 524 outside Lansing mI But I am happier there! Will have to get the wife to help me and post a pic of the cabin. How. Have you been Creeker? Clint just for Fun

Re: What do you use to "Flux" your lead with? clintsfolly #8935577 06/10/14 Joined: Feb 2011 Posts: 1,071 In The Hardwoods Creeker Campfire Regular Creeker Campfire Regular Joined: Feb 2011 Posts: 1,071 In The Hardwoods Retired & doing well. Sometimes I do miss casting every day though but I'll get over it. HEE HEE Would love to see the cabin. Psalm 12:6 https://www.youtube.com/@creeker6422/videos

Re: What do you use to "Flux" your lead with? Creeker #9211996 09/27/14 Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 13,093 Kodiak & AZ D dennisinaz Campfire Outfitter dennisinaz Campfire Outfitter D Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 13,093 Kodiak & AZ Grease NRA Benefactor Member Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.

Re: What do you use to "Flux" your lead with? dennisinaz #9212706 09/28/14 Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 946 middle Tennessee B beefan Campfire Regular beefan Campfire Regular B Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 946 middle Tennessee Great thread. Best wishes to Creeker. Lots of ways to get good smelling bullets, I see.

Re: What do you use to "Flux" your lead with? beefan #9213108 09/28/14 Joined: Feb 2011 Posts: 1,071 In The Hardwoods Creeker Campfire Regular Creeker Campfire Regular Joined: Feb 2011 Posts: 1,071 In The Hardwoods Originally Posted by beefan Great thread. Best wishes to Creeker. Lots of ways to get good smelling bullets, I see. Thanks. Being retired is great, headed to Maine. Psalm 12:6 https://www.youtube.com/@creeker6422/videos

Re: What do you use to "Flux" your lead with? JSH #9222974 10/01/14 Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 1,361 Cody, Wyoming Paladin Campfire Regular Paladin Campfire Regular Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 1,361 Cody, Wyoming Originally Posted by JSH Wood dowel. It's nice to be able to use your 'flux' to scrape the sides of your pot. This. Mine is an old hickory hammer handle. Every so often I add a pea size piece of bees wax as well. How many obama supporters does it take to change a light bulb? None, they prefer to remain in the dark. The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. George Bernard Shaw ~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~

Re: What do you use to "Flux" your lead with? Paladin #9224405 10/02/14 Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 6,412 Vacaville, CA Ranger_Green Campfire Tracker Ranger_Green Campfire Tracker Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 6,412 Vacaville, CA Sawdust and the leftover crayons given to my children when we eat at a restaurant. Me solum relinquatis Molon Labe

Re: What do you use to "Flux" your lead with? Ranger_Green #9226408 10/03/14 Joined: Aug 2006 Posts: 983 M muddy22 Campfire Regular muddy22 Campfire Regular M Joined: Aug 2006 Posts: 983 Dried pitch chunks from scars on Yellow Pines, Red Fir or W. Larch. Throw a piece in, stir, when it smokes light it w/a BBQ lighter and stir/scrape till no more flames, skim and cast- Muddy

Re: What do you use to "Flux" your lead with? PMC #9292568 10/28/14 Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 2,132 ...in the foothills of the App... J J23 Campfire Regular J23 Campfire Regular J Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 2,132 ...in the foothills of the App... My daughter's broken crayons seem to work well. "Ignorance is acceptable, because you can remedy it with knowledge and research. Stupidity is when you guard your ignorance." Ted Nugent "Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you."

Re: What do you use to "Flux" your lead with? J23 #9342708 11/17/14 Joined: Jul 2013 Posts: 9,189 15 min from elk, MT H HuntnShoot Campfire Outfitter HuntnShoot Campfire Outfitter H Joined: Jul 2013 Posts: 9,189 15 min from elk, MT Crayons, candle wax when casting. When smelting ww, I stir in saw dust as well for the first of two fluxes. I belong on eroding granite, among the pines.

Re: What do you use to "Flux" your lead with? HuntnShoot #9342776 11/17/14 Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 2,623 Base of the thumb. O old70 Campfire Regular old70 Campfire Regular O Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 2,623 Base of the thumb. I use canning paraffin and often keep a layer of dry pine sawdust on top of the melt. Keeps surface oxidation down and smells better than the wax based fluxes. I tried commercial fluxes, but they crudded up the pot and solidified in the container. Not worth the money imho.

Re: What do you use to "Flux" your lead with? old70 #9384013 12/02/14 Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 12,321 Greater Browningsville, KY shaman Campfire Outfitter shaman Campfire Outfitter Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 12,321 Greater Browningsville, KY I use paraffin or sawdust. I ran out of the latter a while back and had a bunch of dry oak leaves on the patio. They worked really well. I spent 8 years working in a solder factory. We'd cast 20-70 lb billets of alloy. A lot of the ideas from that place seem to carry over into bullet casting. What we used to flux the big 600 lbs pots of alloy was chunk charcoal. They used to buy it by the truck load, and I'd buy a few bags off work here and there for BBQ'n. It was great stuff, and really cleaned up the melt in a hurry. Genesis 9:2-4 Ministries Lighthearted Confessions of a Cervid Serial Killer

Re: What do you use to "Flux" your lead with? shaman #9400358 12/07/14 Joined: May 2004 Posts: 56,098 In the Swamps DigitalDan Campfire Kahuna DigitalDan Campfire Kahuna Joined: May 2004 Posts: 56,098 In the Swamps Next time I need it I'm going to let Deflave flux my lead. I heard he's a pro. 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 #9418126 12/13/14 Joined: Oct 2011 Posts: 59,049 Next to the dump that Del Shan... 12344mag OP Campfire Kahuna OP 12344mag Campfire Kahuna Joined: Oct 2011 Posts: 59,049 Next to the dump that Del Shan... Doesn't that make for sticky bullets? 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 #9418417 12/13/14 Joined: May 2004 Posts: 56,098 In the Swamps DigitalDan Campfire Kahuna DigitalDan Campfire Kahuna Joined: May 2004 Posts: 56,098 In the Swamps -Laffin'- 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? 12344mag #9507883 01/12/15 Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 19,722 A wash in the west. 1 17ACKLEYBEE Campfire Ranger 17ACKLEYBEE Campfire Ranger 1 Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 19,722 A wash in the west. Originally Posted by 12344mag Originally Posted by RWE liberals. Dried and powdered. I don't understand, why would you want your bullets to smell like chit?? Muslims works better than pork! NRA Lifetime Member