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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 16072 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: Casting with an old Ideal .32-40 tong tool Reply #15 - Apr 6^th, 2020 at 11:48am	Print Post
	Schuetzenmiester wrote on Apr 6^th, 2020 at 4:17am: marlinguy wrote on Apr 5^th, 2020 at 12:16pm: some clever guy carefully covered the handles in leather with a nicely stitched seam up the inside of the handles. They work excellent, and I'd put them on my others if I didn't want to keep the original finish on them. I've always wondered what the handles look like under that leather after all the decades the leather has been on them? Probably depends if there was any salt in the tanning process. I'd say any tanning done back then always used salt in the process. Hard to say today.

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MrTipUp Frequent Elocutionist Offline Quality is to a product what character is to a man Posts: 1305 Location: Indiana Joined: Feb 19^th, 2020	Re: Casting with an old Ideal .32-40 tong tool Reply #16 - Apr 7^th, 2020 at 6:00pm	Print Post
	Actually, much if not most best-quality leather has either never seen salt or had the salts thoroughly washed out of it, which is why so much of it is still in fine shape, even after long-time benign neglect. In the US, period Indian-tanned leather is a well-known example. Bill Lawrence


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 16072 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: Casting with an old Ideal .32-40 tong tool Reply #17 - Apr 10^th, 2020 at 10:20am	Print Post
	Salt was a commonly used method to cure hides, and reduce the smell that was part of the process. It also was used to reduce the bacteria that was in freshly skinned hides, and help release the hair form the hide. It may be true that the salts were mostly extracted later, but they were most certainly used during the curing.

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westerner Frequent Elocutionist Offline deleted posts and threads record holder. Posts: 11451 Location: Why, out West of course Joined: May 29^th, 2006	Re: Casting with an old Ideal .32-40 tong tool Reply #18 - Apr 10^th, 2020 at 5:11pm	Print Post
	ndnchf wrote on Mar 28^th, 2020 at 7:15pm: I was casting today and just for fun tried out the integral mold on a 100+ year old Ideal hand tool. It took a while to get up to good casting temp due to the steel mass. But once it warmed up to it dropped beautiful bullets. With 96/3/1 alloy, they came out at .322"-.3225" diameter and 163gr. Got some loaded up and ready for the range. Ol Mr. Barlow knew what he was doing when he designed this tool No vent lines in your old mold. Interesting. Nice bullets.

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Schuetzenmiester Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 6707 Location: Cool Wet Side of WA Joined: Apr 27^th, 2008	Re: Casting with an old Ideal .32-40 tong tool Reply #19 - Apr 10^th, 2020 at 7:00pm	Print Post
	The hides Tandy sells now are salt free. I don't recall the process name off the top of my head. They have been using that for a long time. The holsters I made as a teenager in the 60s are salt free. My dad had a cartridge belt from the 40s or before that definitely was corrosive. I assume it was salt process.

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