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Lewis Lead Remover

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Instead of ordering a package of the brass patches from Brownells at $3.99 per 10, I ordered some brass pipe screens from a smoking supply shop for $7.84 per 100 with free shipping. (1" dia) They can be ordered in multiple sizes and the only difference is the hole in the middle. I'm pretty sure I can make a hole...

Hope this helps some of you cast boolit shooters.

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Great tip !

Thanks for posting it. :)


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Cool idea, there's a head shop in town that should have them...
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Get yourself a block of wood, drill a hole( same size as the Lewis rod) then hold your screen over it and try an ice pick for the hole. Just need to push the wire out of the way, they might come apart if you cut the wire.
Great idea you had by the way, gotta file that away in the ol memory bank!
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GunnyMack wrote:Get yourself a block of wood, drill a hole( same size as the Lewis rod) then hold your screen over it and try an ice pick for the hole. Just need to push the wire out of the way, they might come apart if you cut the wire.
Great idea you had by the way, gotta file that away in the ol memory bank!
That's exactly what I was planning on doing. I have a couple of scratch-awls that should do the trick nicely.
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You can soften that lead up with a 50/50 mix of white vinegar and drug store hydrogen peroxide. Swab a few times with water to kill the reaction.
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BlaineG wrote:You can soften that lead up with a 50/50 mix of white vinegar and drug store hydrogen peroxide. Swab a few times with water to kill the reaction.
I wonder if that creates an easily removed lead oxide. Does it come out red or yellow?
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Rimfire McNutjob wrote:
BlaineG wrote:You can soften that lead up with a 50/50 mix of white vinegar and drug store hydrogen peroxide. Swab a few times with water to kill the reaction.
I wonder if that creates an easily removed lead oxide. Does it come out red or yellow?
Kind of gray-ish....
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BlaineG wrote:You can soften that lead up with a 50/50 mix of white vinegar and drug store hydrogen peroxide. Swab a few times with water to kill the reaction.
I'm just shooting from the hip but that might cause hydrogen embrittlement of some steel parts.
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You just drummed up a memory.......gotta look in my 1960's dope box.....I know I have a mess of screens we used to use for smoking hash.---6
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Marvin S wrote:
BlaineG wrote:You can soften that lead up with a 50/50 mix of white vinegar and drug store hydrogen peroxide. Swab a few times with water to kill the reaction.
I'm just shooting from the hip but that might cause hydrogen embrittlement of some steel parts.
I read about it years ago....Here's some more.


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BlaineG wrote:You can soften that lead up with a 50/50 mix of white vinegar and drug store hydrogen peroxide. Swab a few times with water to kill the reaction.
Yep, that works but do not leave the mixture in a barrel! I have a Dan Wesson 44H that had some stubborn leading in the barrel and read about hydrogen peroxide-vinegar lead remover and tried it. I got side tracked after swabbing the barrel good with the mix and left the barrel wet for several hours (like 10 or so). When I remembered and finished cleaning the bbl. I saw pits, very small but pits, in the nice shiny, lead free barrel. I don't remember the name of the chemical reaction between the mixture and steel, but it is corrosive... :cry:
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mikld wrote:
BlaineG wrote:You can soften that lead up with a 50/50 mix of white vinegar and drug store hydrogen peroxide. Swab a few times with water to kill the reaction.
Yep, that works but do not leave the mixture in a barrel! I have a Dan Wesson 44H that had some stubborn leading in the barrel and read about hydrogen peroxide-vinegar lead remover and tried it. I got side tracked after swabbing the barrel good with the mix and left the barrel wet for several hours (like 10 or so). When I remembered and finished cleaning the bbl. I saw pits, very small but pits, in the nice shiny, lead free barrel. I don't remember the name of the chemical reaction between the mixture and steel, but it is corrosive... :cry:
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