Measuring hardness??

[Ray B]

Is there a method of getting a ballpark figure for hardness of lead and similar bullets short of buying a hardness testor?

 

[bruce moulds]

if you have one of known hardness, and one unknown, you can squeeze them together in a vice and a relativity can be observed.
i believe lee has a reasonable hardness tester that works quite well.
bruce.

 

[GuttormG]

Checking Lead Hardness With Drawing Pencils

I thought that this information would be interesting to a lot of you readers. A month or so ago I

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[Hogpatrol]

Know any machinists or someone that owns a machine shop? The school where I taught machine shop had a hardness tester. Check with your local high school, community college or university. Get something for your tax dollars.