Post by wychild on Jan 21, 2015 17:12:05 GMT -7
For those you that cast your own bullets and check the bullet lead, for hardness, This is important if you cast for different calibers for pistol or rifle or both and use lead from a verity of sources .
If you have ever used one of Lee's Brinell hardness checkers then you know they are not e easy to use. But they are a bunch less expensive then anything else for this use.
The difficulty in using them is that, because you are looking through a hand held 20 power scope with a small field of view, all the while trying to hold it still and at the same time lining up the internal grid and measure the calibrated dent, that you have put in the bullet. Not real easy!
My answer to the problem is my “Red neck microscope”. see photo
I all ready had the multiply angle magnetic base, that I use for everything from measuring bullet length, case length and cartridge length, so After cussing for about a half hr trying to get a hardness measurement on an assortment of bullets. I came up with the Red Neck Microscope attachment. Now I get good reasonably accurate, hands free measurements without questioning antibody or anythings ancestry.
