Dimner
Named Man
I have been reading more and more about alloys. It kind of fascinates me. I started with the great document by Glen at lasc about how the monolithic, dual alloy (forget the term) and tertiary alloys work together. All the terms make sense (except that one term I cannot remember. But when to use each alloy isn't as intuitive to me.
Is it like a descision tree for most people when they are picking what alloy to use? Something like asking one's self the following questions?
How hard do I want these bullets to be? (BHN isn't the only thing to think about)
Do I need to use this on game?
How fast will they be shot?
Is it easy to fill out the bullet profile in the mold?
Do I want to heat treat?
Not even sure those are the right questions.
So far I have been lucky with casting where nearly everything I cast can be done with Clip on Wheel weights. And if that didn't work, just adding a litte tin. Which I believe gives me a tertiary alloy with approximately double the amount of Sb as Sn. I can heat treat for a bit of a boost in BHN. So it's pretty versatile, maybe a jack of all trades, but a master of none kind of alloy.
So as I think about these concepts, is there a cheat sheet somewhere with a list of common alloys and the situations when it would be a good idea to use them? Or maybe a better idea is a list of common alloys and how they can be used to achieve different alloy characteristics.
Is it like a descision tree for most people when they are picking what alloy to use? Something like asking one's self the following questions?
How hard do I want these bullets to be? (BHN isn't the only thing to think about)
Do I need to use this on game?
How fast will they be shot?
Is it easy to fill out the bullet profile in the mold?
Do I want to heat treat?
Not even sure those are the right questions.
So far I have been lucky with casting where nearly everything I cast can be done with Clip on Wheel weights. And if that didn't work, just adding a litte tin. Which I believe gives me a tertiary alloy with approximately double the amount of Sb as Sn. I can heat treat for a bit of a boost in BHN. So it's pretty versatile, maybe a jack of all trades, but a master of none kind of alloy.
So as I think about these concepts, is there a cheat sheet somewhere with a list of common alloys and the situations when it would be a good idea to use them? Or maybe a better idea is a list of common alloys and how they can be used to achieve different alloy characteristics.