So you tried to solder a bullet casing? What happened? Was there still powder in it?
well - my brother gave me a bullet - he said he'd pulled the projectile out with pliers, poured the powder out, put it in a vice & set it off with a hammer & nail & then rinsed it out with water. foolishly I believed him & didn't do anything further myself. soldering iron on the end of the casing to tin it ........ BANG!!!!! couldn't hear, couldn't see, face was stinging, if you've seen Saving Private Ryan, the beach scene, shell lands nearby, GI in Tom Hanks' face screaming "What do we do now, SIR?" but TH can't hear anything but a loud whistling..... that was me! My face & hands were stinging because of powder burns & solder splashes, my eye's felt like & I'd been pegged down & my eyelids pinned open & forced to stare at the sun for 3hrs. Soldering iron was "L" shaped, board I'd had the casing stood on was scorched, there was a .5" dent in the ceiling & I never found the casing for 3 weeks!!!
when I confronted him screaming "Are you trying to f******g well kill me?!!!!?" - he just laughed.... stopped laughing when he found my fist in his face...... but hey, that's brothers for you!!!!