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Compressed Concrete Sling Ammo
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BxDL6eYJRVw
I made this video today to give some basic info on concrete sling ammo if anyone ever wants to try it out. It works well.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ExE_y1fro6A
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2008 on the pill roller. Seems like forever ago. I forgot all about that thread.
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Do you guys have any problem with the alkalinity of concrete? Last year I was de-hairing deerhides with wood ashes and two weeks later the skin on my hands started peeling.
I freaked a few people out a little. On the bright side, that was when I began learning the fiddle so I formed calluses much quicker.
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I briefly mention this in the video. Yes, it can be an issue. I've gotten some very minor burns when I was careless and forgot to wear gloves. It's usually not an issue though. As an added measure you can douse your hands in vinegar after you clean up and keep your working sessions under an hour.
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Hi. It is very interesting.
Since long ago I have the temptation to make a tathlum with 1,4Kg (the weight of an human brain) of pigs' brains and some lime.
But I am not sure if I must knead it or what amount of lime I must add.
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What the heck is a tathlum?
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"This was known as a brainball or Tathlum, meaning a concrete ball, and was made by mixing human brains with lime and allowing it to harden."
https://books.google.es/books?id=bY8pCgAAQBAJ&lpg=PT147&ots=ODV4GZxlCR&dq=tathlu...
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"But ere Conall buried the head of Mesgedra he caused the brain to be taken out and mixed with lime to make a bullet for a sling, for so it was customary to do when a great warrior had been killed; and the brain-balls thus made were accounted to be the deadliest of missiles."
http://www.theemeraldisle.org/irish-myths-legends/the-vengeance-of-mesgedra.htm
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That's pretty metal.
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Wow that's infinitely cooler than I would've guessed. And weird. Really weird.
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I do have a deer brain in the freezer. The options were to eat it, ( Don't judge!!! It is delicious!!!
) or braintan the same deer's hide. I guess now there is a third option...
Thanks for that story.
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I've eaten goat brain. Once you get past the texture it doesn't taste too bad.
Never seen a brain turned into a stone with lime.
Or used as a sling bullet.
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Remember that an average human adult male brain weighs about 3lbs
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I cut an old ball in half and use two pieces of cloth to help eject it from the mold after its compressed. It works pretty well.
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