Ramp

[Bradley]

For decades I've caught my cast bullets in an old pot holder inside a banged up
pie tin. Works just fine. But what I've always wanted was a simple ramp. The
plan was to drop the hot bullets on a ramp and have them fall into my old pie
tin.

A couple of weeks ago I notice my neighbor building an elaborate cabinet for
someone. So I asked how hard it would be to make my ramp. Banged one out in a
couple of hours.

I've used it several times. Works just fine. What I didn't expect was that my
casting rates, the number of bullets I could make an hour, significantly went
up. Didn't realize, I guess, how much time I was wasting fooling around with
that old pot holder.

Anyway if anyone would be interested in one of these ramps, Jim has pictures.
His e-mail address is jewelrypoetry@gmail.com. I suppose he would make one for
you if you wanted but you would have to ask him about that.

[David2011]

Could you post a photo?

David

[Bradley]

Jim took photography so I'd suggest just e-mailing him.

[Mike W1]

http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u310/Mike4245/HPIM1606.jpg

Not a real good picture but black thing at left side has hinged bottoms and dump behind into boxes. They're sorted automatically by mould when you dump. The bottom is adjustable for pitch and covered with a pad. As I cast when they build up on the pad I just scoot them into the boxes by hand. I generally cast with 2 moulds.

Little boxes not shown catch the sprues also as does the one in front of the pot.