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Offline smoke

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What Flux
« on: March 14, 2024, 04:38:22 AM »
just wondering what Flux shooters use and why.Dan I should have mentioned for casting lead
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Offline smylee grouch

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Re: What Flux
« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2024, 04:53:03 AM »
If your talking about flux for casting, I use dry sawdust or bees wax.
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Offline J.M.Browning

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Re: What Flux
« Reply #2 on: March 14, 2024, 05:05:31 AM »
Quote from: smoke on March 14, 2024, 04:38:22 AM
just wondering what Flux shooters use and why.Dan
I have no knowledge of flux for shooting , I flux my casting lead several times in the process of a final cast projectile . Sawdust .
« Last Edit: March 14, 2024, 05:16:32 AM by J.M.Browning »
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Re: What Flux
« Reply #3 on: March 14, 2024, 05:06:53 AM »
bees wax

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Offline P.W.Berkuta

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Re: What Flux
« Reply #4 on: March 14, 2024, 07:08:11 PM »
I use candle wax, canning wax, crayons. Beeswax is too precious to waste. ;)
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Offline Daryl

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Re: What Flux
« Reply #5 on: March 14, 2024, 08:13:43 PM »
With over 10 pounds of beeswax, (the really good stuff) that's what I use now, otherwise paraffin.
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Offline recurve

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Re: What Flux
« Reply #6 on: March 15, 2024, 05:23:50 PM »
saw dust works , bees wax smells better and works
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Offline J.M.Browning

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Re: What Flux
« Reply #7 on: March 16, 2024, 12:50:13 PM »
I had a friend over in the winter I was making ingots for Travis he would warm up in the shop & have a smoke . I threw his cigarettes he left unattended  in a 60 pound cook , very good flux , I sometimes buy cheap cigar Throw outs at the drug store .
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Thank you Boone , Glass with all the contemplate I read with todays (shooter's lightly taken as such) , you keep things simple .

Offline Pukka Bundook

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Re: What Flux
« Reply #8 on: March 16, 2024, 04:46:06 PM »
They throw cigars out at your drug store, JMB??

I use beeswax in lead, got lots.
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Offline bluenoser

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Re: What Flux
« Reply #9 on: March 16, 2024, 06:10:10 PM »
Quote from: Pukka Bundook on March 16, 2024, 04:46:06 PM
They throw cigars out at your drug store, JMB??

  ::) Treat myself to a # 59 factory throw out every now and then.  Wish they were available  - and affordable - in Canada.
Sorry, getting a little off topic.
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Offline Daryl

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Re: What Flux
« Reply #10 on: March 16, 2024, 08:52:50 PM »
Some years ago, at fishing camp (2 weeks every June) one of the "boys" would throw us each a Cohiba. He had a "source" for them, straight from Cuba, via small plane.
I did not ask any further questions.
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Offline J.M.Browning

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Re: What Flux
« Reply #11 on: March 17, 2024, 05:26:51 AM »

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Thank you Boone , Glass with all the contemplate I read with todays (shooter's lightly taken as such) , you keep things simple .
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