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7 page of write-up in one of the DeHaas books. Not at all favorable, as he explains, he would not have spent the pages on it except for the number of folks that asked him about that one in...

That would be Cape Outfitting.

I came very close to owning one of those rifles. I was pretty pleased to find out that the extractor issue, which had the action locked up on the one that I was...

Not a good lathe for a beginner.

Might be a good deal if cheap enough/near free. Might make a good machine for say, repetetive cutting off of jackets to length, or similar jobs where the fiddly...

At one point Mac1 was paying, IIRC, $100 for any Crosman mk1 or 2 pistol, pretty much in any complete condition.

Lots of rebuild information and sources online if you dig around the web.

The O...

The whole of the forces of the cartridge firing are held in the chamber by two screws, the breech block screw, and the lever pivot screw. They are not very big screws, and the breech block screw for...

Diameter and twist rate equals helix angle.

Really though, if you are in a position to make your own buttons reliably, you wouldn't need to ask, would you?

The outfits that supply them take...

I put a rimfire barrel onto an older Spanish made gun (sorta magnum class springer, canna recall the name right now) that got the original barrel bent.

Little loose on some pellets, others worked...

Yeah, by all means give it a go.

But up front, your intended aims (make a dies to make bullets from rimfire jackets) is at odds with the "Not looking to make cheap low end stuff. I am looking at...

Meh. As long as guys pay, that's what the sellers will charge.

Dunno what's going on down there, I'm buying US made ammo here for as cheap as it's ever been. In stock.

Cheers
Trev

Buy some of the commercial dies and have a look then. It will like as not, open your eyes.

It does not have to be very flashy or built to NASA specs, on the outside, to make a good bullet and work...

Look (do a search) for the SAS Swage Die .pdf file. http://www.rtconnect.net/~wjmanley/SAS_Die_making/SASswagedie.pdf

LOTS of useful detail there.

Other than keeping to close tolerances in the...

Those pictures sure do give a pretty good idea of the stresses that act on a swage die!

Cheers
Trev

Money is ALWAYS an issue.

The reality is that you will need to spend about 10 grand, if not a whole bunch more, to get yourself set up with the swaging eqipment, machine tools, and assorted other...

Remove the seal and space it up a bit.

Digging it out is going to fluff up the leather anyway, a sturdy pointed object is going to be required to lift the seal out, some neatsfoot oil on the old...

Not gonna say that you can't or shouldn't, but the guys that made those rounds (the military ammo)in the first place did so in a volume that the savings in materials costs made up for the headaches...

I have a couple Favorite that I picked up over the years, originally intending to build them up and use them, as the finished product is a nice light and handy gun.

The more I looked at them and...

Cheddar! (goes good with whine!)

Man o man but there are a bunch of folks around that need to go shooting instead of wandering the web looking for excuses to act all butthurt about supposed...

Adjustable machine reamers. Worth a bunch if you need the, and...about $14.50, if you don't, eh?

Lesse. Looks like carbide on the cutting edges, a 45 degree bevel on the corner, and like as not, a...

Ayep. Shows up this time.
edit: Thanks for the correct info, Dutchman. Your great pages on these were part of what convinced me to get one in the first place, and are a good read.

Yeah. I bought...

Hame, IIRC, = H = Hammer.

The S is the breech block pin. Can't recall the word.

While I doubt it makes a lot of difference, they were marked so they would go back where they came from.
Your...

THAT is a considerably less complicated cylinder than it could have been.

The lack of need for accurately located sets of notches, and the fairly complex set of cuts for the indexing pawl to...

DocBill, since the front panel is connected to the board by a detachable ribbon cable, it'd seen a pretty straightforward job to map the pins on the cable with some time and a multimeter.

Like as...

Uhh... The pot in this case, is what tells the speed controller what speed to run at.
Might want to do a refresher on these little machines before you tell folks that it does not work.

The speed...

Make the part fit the work, not the work fit the part.

You can get another pulley if you miss the dimensions. Once you make the shaft on the motor too small, yer done.

Ideal would be to cut the...

While you are well on your way to a DC Motor conversion, I would suggest some things to keep in mind.

Those motors run a bit warm, so you will want to account for getting some air through it. The...