From: Jim Webster (jimweb@simonides.prestel.co.uk)
Date: Fri Mar 29 2002 - 14:31:17 PST
Terry Lane wrote:
> Hello List---I am planning on building a 20mm single shot cannon with
> windage and elevation adjustment, on wheels. I have recently acquired a
> number of 20mm cadmium plated cartridges,150,
> once fired and need to clean them up, some are a little rusty and I need
> to know what will clean them safely with out damaging the cadmium
> plating. I also obtained a linked belt of 50 live rounds and will pull
> one (very carefully) to use as a mold dummy, for lead bullet
> making.----Any suggestions would be appreciated from you cannon guys out
> there.----Regards----Terry lane
Aren't cadmium plated cartridges used on drill rounds only? Drill rounds
are usually naff steel as well and prone to rust.
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