Stonewall Bullet Operation Pictures

[Stonewall Bullet]

 lead furnace room, pot is fired up, 40 100lb buckets WW to feed it

  separate zinc and valve cores from WW
  Home made "Picker Upper" (back saver)

 Lead dipper made from shop light sheilds

Casting Machine, bullets drop off this side, cast 2400-2900 per hour

Bullet Tumbler (also home made)

Auto sizer does 5000/hour

40k 38s ready to box

Bullet Inspection table

"Yellow Balls" (Guard Cat)

[GSPKurt]

Glad to see the guard cat is well-armed...

 

[Stonewall Bullet]

   Hello Kurt
Yup, thats yellow balls, in the picture he's making use of a bunch of empty bullet shelves. He sat on my lap most of the morning and helped me run 17,000 38 147RN through the sizer.
 Got everything changed over to 40 180, now got to holler at a couple of fellows and tell them I got some 40s to ship.
 Thats an old S&W -10 in the pic, I keep it full of rat shot, for the  snakes,                                           

[VTDW]

That is just waaay too cool Robert!!

[buffgun]

Very neet setup ! Wish I could get 40 100 lb ww that would last me the rest of my life   

[Stonewall Bullet]

    Its getting rough fellows, just about every time I make a lead run I lose another pickup place. Also got a 5 gallon of steel weights out of that 4,000lbs plus several lbs of zinc. If I hadn't located that foundry over this side of dallas I wouldn't be able to keep enough lead to meet local demand.  I'm mixing that lead (2-6-92) 50/50 with WW, That has bumped up the BHN a couple of numbers.
 Got to point my blue mule in that direction Tuesday morning, got me a ton and a half waiting. The way it looks now, that will probably be the last run.
 If you fellows do luck up on some WW, having a lead thermometer is a real good idea ! Don't let it get over 650 deg. Thats plenty hot enough to skim off the clips and trash and pour pigs.  I hauled 1800 lbs to the scrap yard a while back that was zinc contaminated and got half what I paid for it !
 WW prices had dropped in the past few months, but are back up now, running 50 to 60 bucks /5 gallon bucket,
  I'll get a close up picture of some zinc WW to post on here when I can so you fellows will know what to look for, some of them look just like lead weights, just have to keep the temp down and dip them out with the clips.                                              Robert

[georgeky]

I like the picker upper. Watch out for the handle and don't let it hairlip you.

 Nice setup!

[Stonewall Bullet]

  George
   Yup, it sure did one time, right in the nose!  But if I limit the buckets to 100 lbs the wire bales will stand that much, so far. I made a bucket "grabber" For the 150 lb buckets, I'll show it in the next group of pictures.
                                                               

[Lanark Sixgunner]

Sweet setup, lots fancier than my Lee pot and RCBS 2-cavity .45 270 SAA mold!

Best,

Lanark Sixgunner