Good to know this has been done before. Too bad I didn't know it, or we coulda compared notes and made the process a lot easier. I agree the Master Caster has the potential to make superb bullets...
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Good to know this has been done before. Too bad I didn't know it, or we coulda compared notes and made the process a lot easier. I agree the Master Caster has the potential to make superb bullets...
Thanks.
My son said we should do a video for those interested in how this works. So we did. Pardon my messy garage :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdy4oSBE8iA
To give ya a little update, the mold and the machine have had a few tweaks as the preliminary stages work toward full production. I reworked the actuating link that opens the mold, inscribed some...
All together, right around $345. I didn't think that was too much considering custom 2 cav moulds for the Master Caster end up around $300 without the HB plugs or the inset bar. I went at the long...
A couple years ago I drew up a lightweight HB bullet for CAS, a 125gr .45. I had Bernie at Old West Bullet Moulds make a nice brass HB mould and I commenced to make bullets, ONE AT A TIME with that...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Works for me. If the mission is banging steel plates or fast and furious work on paper or pins, why use more than ya need to?
Even casting my own, I chase all over creation to BUY wheel weights,...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Just thought I'd pass this along. I recently bought a brandy new LEE 6 cav mold from biglube.com. Dick Dastardly has come out with a new mold for a 150 .45 bullet for use in ROA cap and ball guns...
Thanks. I have to order one of these molds for a project, and had to know this dimension. If it works, you'll hear more. :)
Can somebody please measure the sprue plate hole diameter on a Lee two cavity mold for me?
Working on a project, and this dimension is critical.
Thanks.
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |