XRF lead analysis
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BattleRife
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He will know what is in his materials, so that he can blend them to get the results he wants. I don't know how the utility of this is even a question.
Joe Amorosi
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Take a drive over to Posners Metal, I think they are on Beach Rd.
They have one of those hand held units. They may help you out, especially if you bring timmies or a beer store gift card...
They have one of those hand held units. They may help you out, especially if you bring timmies or a beer store gift card...
All those scrap yard people are weird, that includes Wentworth Metal Recycling LMAO
Joe Amorosi
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While I do agree that most of them are not the fastest swimmers in the gene pool, they are smart enough to just sit back and let people bring the money (scrap) to them
There is your first issue when you ass-u-me. It has nothing to do with accuracy.
fingers284
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Wow, short sighted or what!! For the folks that still shoot cast with conventional wax lube, alloy harness is a very real concern that can have drastic effects on accuracy or barrel leading...for us guys that have gone to the modern plastic concoction of bullet coating for a combination of lube & perfect sizing, alloy hardness has pretty much for the most part eliminated from the equation.
Even for us "plastic users", knowing an alloy content can have benefits....different alloys mold better or worse and a "worse" scenario can have very detrimental accuracy results because of voids in the casting.
BattleRife
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A hardness tester is a feedback approach. You make a batch based on a guess, then you test it, and if it is not what you wanted you scrap it all and start over with an adjusted guess.
Knowing your composition is feedforward. You know what you want, you know what you have, you do a little math to formulate a recipe. If you do it right you get the desired result right out of the gate.
I sent some samples last year and thought it was a great way to confirm my recipes. I shoot a lot of black powder rifle and I needed to know that my 20 to 1 and my 40 to 1 were close and I also sent some lyman #2 samples and some range scrap I had. I have the lee hardness tester as well as the LBT tester and when I got the results they were really close to what the hardness testers told me. So I now of confidence that the hardness testers are close enough to rely on. This is kind of all mute now that there is powder coating available.
I guess all those olympic medals won using Eley Tenex were done so with tungsten carbide slugs....
