Just got mine! It is SOLID! BT is a really great guy!
Type: Posts; User: techlava
Forum: Swaging
Just got mine! It is SOLID! BT is a really great guy!
Forum: Swaging
CH4D website state the ram is 1.185" in diameter, that's very close to 1 3/16" or 1.1875", 2.5 mills difference in diameter. 30mm is 1.181" 4 mills smaller then 1.185". I wonder how tight the ram...
Forum: Swaging
You always can make the slot the hard way like our forefathers, by hand, better with the help of a die grinder, or have a machinist do it for about the cost of a new ram.
By the way the ram...
Forum: Swaging
You can easily hold tolerance at less the .001" with EDM CNC. Thats how the $2000 to $4000 dollar custom BR dies are made with carbide dies.
Forum: Swaging
I have bought injection molds twenty years ago made with EDM at 1/3 or less cost in Far East that produced millions of plastic parts of the highest quality. Tools and dies got much cheaper when the...
Forum: Swaging
Would you be willing to buy low cost high quality swaging dies made in China? It is only a matter of time with globalization these products would be available if it is legal. Injection molds costing...
Forum: Swaging
PP bullet is just a lead bullet "without lube gooves" and gas check. CH4D dies can make them just make sure you specify the final bullet diameter correctly. For example ".301" diameter for paper...
Forum: Swaging
Got these copper cleaning methods off the web:
"by pintoshine » Wed Jan 30, 2008 7:54 am
I have a couple more recommendations to try. I got these from a clock restoration site.
Household...
Forum: Swaging
"I thought I recognized that name but couldn't place it.
Never did like AOL, used them briefly years ago, then they kept trying to bill me
after I quit 'em.
If it is the same guy would that be a...
Forum: Swaging
There are a number of bullet swaging die makers around in the bench rest trade that do a very good job.
The end of the world is not near, yet.
Forum: Cast Boolits
There is a new discussion group for group buy of 323407 from NOE.
Forum: Our Town
One time I had a higher bid in the last 10 second. Someone did a denial of service attack that blocked all bids for that item I was bidding on, so I can't even bid at all.
The mold prices on...
The 311365 Ideal mold gives a ~200 gr bullet with highest ballistic coefficient in .30 caliber. From all I can gether from the web forums it is also one of the most accurate,
Right now as I am...
Forum: Military Rifles
Iwo Toh is just an alternate pronunciation of Iwo Jima, 3 Kanji ,"Chinese Characters", for Sulfur Island.
Japanese military is not thrilled at the defeat.
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
MidSouth Shooters Supply got the DOUBLE CAVITY REPRODUCTION 6.5MM SWEDISH 170GR MOULD again in stock.
MidSouth Shooters Supply got the DOUBLE CAVITY REPRODUCTION 6.5MM SWEDISH 170GR MOULD again in stock.
Forum: Cast Boolits
MidSouth Shooters Supply got the DOUBLE CAVITY REPRODUCTION 6.5MM SWEDISH 170GR MOULD again in stock.
Forum: Classics & Stickies
Please keep your zinc because every sea going boat needs huge amount as sacrificial metal to keep corrosion at bay. If you cast it into the right shapes you can get good money.
Forum: Classics & Stickies
The atomic weight of tin is 119.
The atomic weight of bismuth is 209.
If the solution of Sn/Bi is 1/1 the weight of tin should be more like 4/7. instead of 1/1 by weight.
Can someone...
Forum: Casting Equipment
It sure make less of a mess as well.
Using the ventilation fan to cool the mold to speed up cycling is "cool" also.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
We have give thanks to Archimedes, who shouted "eureka!" when he solved this problem, while taking a bath over two thousand years ago in Syracuse. Who also had a cone, a sphere, and a cylinder...
Forum: Military Rifles
I just got my LEE Karabiner mold from Midsouth and it's a twin! You should get it before it is sold out!
Forum: Cast Boolits
I just got my LEE Karabiner mold from Midsouth and it's a twin! You should get it before it is sold out!
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 |