If you just want to make something fit better in a spot with just a couple thousandths, you can stipple carefully, (with a sharp center punch or high quality awl you're willing to sacrifice), one of...
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Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
If you just want to make something fit better in a spot with just a couple thousandths, you can stipple carefully, (with a sharp center punch or high quality awl you're willing to sacrifice), one of...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Jack First does have a simplistic web site, which simply directs viewers to call:
http://www.jackfirstgun.com/
20 years ago he was very helpful to me with some mini 14 parts. I recommend him.
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I just checked, and Brownell's does have a dovetail slot filler.
Brownell's is a supporter of this site, and has a link add at the bottom of the page!!
ALUMINUM SLOT BLANK
Fills Empty Sight...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I do believe Brownell's has a filler wedge for empty dovetails. But it seems to me you could reverse the process of cutting the dovetail and make a filler piece of steel, or a nice piece of nickle...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Hi:
I wanted to thank you for the photos and instructions on the sight installation.
It is really appreciated.
Now I don’t time any job in my shop as I don’t work to a clock, I prefer to...
Forum: Gas Checks
I just checked, .30 gas checks are selling for $32.+, plus postage, on Ebay, and $28.49 plus postage on Midway USA's site. Am I missing something here?
Forum: Gas Checks
Hi: I was looking at your photos of the GC pressor/cutter, and thought it ingenious.
Are you the seller, or just a user?
I don't use a lot of them, but to be able to make my own sounds like an...
Forum: Gas Checks
I am a newbie here.
Can someone please tell me how to make a home made gas check cutter/presser?
Or show a picture?
I bought a box of Hornady 30-30 and .44 about eight years ago, still only a...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I was just wondering the same thing, "Where do you get sulpher?"
Then somebody suggested a garden shop, and I remembered my gardening buddy using sulpher for the garden.
Gonna ask him.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
You might try scuba weights, since half or more of the tire weights now are steel and zinc.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Hi LB:
I generally walk up to ask with a select sixer in my hand in trade. So far it has worked, and I get 30-40 pounds at a time.
BUT....now that there is a bunch of the weights having zinc and...
Some years ago I bought a mold real cheap, thinking someday I would use it for something. But am not sure where to start.
My fear to start is because it is a brass mold. Makes a ball about 30 to...
I have learned to prefer my Lee molds too.
Have a helpful hint.
Lee suggests using the smoke from a blown out lighted match to smoke the inside of the cavities. I tried this, and got tired of...
Forum: Boolit Lube !
Hi Softpoint:
I have been lubing my home cast bullets with Lee Liquid Alox for about 15 years. Stick the bullets in a baggie, then squirt half an oz or so over them, then "masage them around until...
Forum: In Remembrance
It's a sad read for my first time to this site.
I wish you well, though, and faith in your God will help. Just ask him.
Dunno where you are, but would sit with you if I could.
Another old...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Hi:
In studying knife making, a method of case hardening is to pack the piece of steel into an airtight container with crushed wallnut shells all around, (like plain coarse tumbling media). The...
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 |