u/MadeThisJustForLWIAY

If I wanted a 45-90 to shoot the Quigley Match...

Would it be easier/more cost effective to

A: Sell all my 38-55 brass, dies, mold and rebarrel my 1885 High Wall to a 45-90 (barrel and extractor are the only things that need to be swapped)

B: Sell my whole 38-55 setup and buy a brand new rifle

C: Become rich enough to buy a Sharps like everyone else uses and stop using a high wall

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u/MadeThisJustForLWIAY — 3 days ago
▲ 2 r/audio

Interested in a guide on repairing Cambridge Audio SX60 speakers

Have a speaker just out of warranty that recently started crackling and isn't producing any actual audio other than the static.

Is there any decent guide or manual for Cambridge speakers to help me isolate?

I'm handy with electronics, I can solder boards and contacts, just need to know what to do as I'm not savvy with electronics other than when it's on an aircraft lol.

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u/MadeThisJustForLWIAY — 13 days ago
▲ 216 r/reloading

I listened, and "yeah... we happy."

So over 100 of you fine gents had plenty of suggestions and I read every single one of your comments.

To answer a few questions that came up, in no particular order:

  • My water is great, actually had it tested by a guy trying to sell water filters/softeners and he was taken aback by how clean our tap water was.
  • I had been having problems with and without using pins during my wash.
  • I was not tumbling previously lubed cases, they were all freshly fired by me, or picked up on a public range after baking in the dirt for up to a month.
  • I haven't used citric acid in years as my water does not need it.
  • I used a brand new tumbler, but it didn't help.
  • I had previously tried to clean the tumbler and pins, but I must not have done it properly in the past.

The fix? It was highlighted to me that I shouldn't tumble nickel with brass, so I pulled all the brass shells out and the picture above was all cruddy, sooty (suppressor fired), dirty, and sun-aged. The majority of the brass was more brown than golden. I also spent a few hours tumbling just my pins and tumblers, while pulling them off every 45min to thoroughly rinse the water and *laundry detergent* off. Now my brass is coming out nice and shiny again, I'm sure if I use new (once fired by me, and not random range pickup) brass, I'll see the lighter shade and even more glossy like when I first started wet tumbling.

TL;DR: Suggestions taken, don't mix brass and nickel, wash pins and tumbler thoroughly and now brass is shiny again.

u/MadeThisJustForLWIAY — 15 days ago

I've tried messing around with SunoAI just for a rough idea how a remix could sound, but it chews it up too much it's unrecognizable.

I love what Skeler did with P.O.D. Youth Of The Nation, and I think you could do something similar to this sample.

u/MadeThisJustForLWIAY — 16 days ago

It would be cool if you could have a setting for the VOIP and observer/commander radio be on different channels (like IRL). Where all the team chat only came through on LH and all the radio calls came through on RH.

Just a shower thought.

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u/MadeThisJustForLWIAY — 16 days ago
▲ 130 r/reloading

With pins, without pins, with dawn, without dawn, hot water, cold water, lemishine, pure citric acid, wash n wax, 1 hour, all 3 hours. I even used a brand new tumbler! I cannot, for the life of me, produce anything but dull brass. Even the nickel plated comes out more satin than gloss. I just want to go back to when I first started tumbling and everything came out looking brand new.

u/MadeThisJustForLWIAY — 16 days ago
▲ 12 r/40_mm

So for those of us that cast our own lead bullets, we've got the equipment. Could you start getting zinc (zamak) wheel weights from auto shops (since their lead is usually what's being asked)? Like if they give you both, cool, but let's say they have someone who already wants their lead, it might be easier to corner a market on the less desired zinc weights. All you'd need is your own custom mold for a 40mm pusher and you could start casting your own out of melted wheel weights. I've heard that they can typically be the same ZAMAK as the pushers.

Has anyone thought of this? I know the current meta is to just 3d print everything, but I'm curious if if it's even a viable route for increasing the supply of components in our space.

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u/MadeThisJustForLWIAY — 24 days ago