geoff wrote:
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The Medway Handyman wrote:

Reminds me of dropping molten lead into a bucket of water. Weird
spikey shapes.

I thought that was how they made perfectly round musket balls?


They would form and solidify during the long drop in air.



I've wondered about that in the past - surely they would be a bit
"pear" shaped from their passage through air

Quick Google suggests they were also moulded.

Thinking about logistics, they would have needed to mass produce them.
Wellington had 67,000 troops at waterloo, assuming they had 60 rounds each,
thats around 4 million balls minimum.

It must have been a huge scale industrial production.


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