Homemade?

[dragon813gt]

Get yourself a LiveCD of Linux and boot from it for when you need to do something at home on the laptop?

I have a personal laptop. First day on the job I typed in Glock.com and was blocked on the company laptop. CastBoolits and all other firearm related sites are blocked. At that point I wasn't going to deal w/ their filters. Not worth the hassle and it's their laptop so I will use it only for work. Biggest hassle is smaller airports when I have to pull one laptop out and place it in a separate container. Other one stays in the TSA approved bag. Bigger airports are a lot easier to get through security :laugh:

[NavyVet1959]

I have a personal laptop. First day on the job I typed in Glock.com and was blocked on the company laptop. CastBoolits and all other firearm related sites are blocked. At that point I wasn't going to deal w/ their filters. Not worth the hassle and it's their laptop so I will use it only for work.

I was staying at a Hilton Fairfield hotel recently and I noticed that they blocked GlockTalk.com, but they didn't block this site. When I was in Taiwan awhile back, I noticed a lot of the ISPs blocked gun related sites.

[Big Tom]

Yep, there is even a design out there for 3D printing them. Funny part is that every range officer immediately shows up when using it "No full auto here" and then has no problems when they see it is bumpfire, which is getting close from a rate of fire perspective. Haven't timed it yet, but a 100 rd magazine was empty in less than 20 seconds ... and yes, agree, a complete waste of ammo - but sooooooo much fun.

Those bumpfire stocks sure will go thru the ammo!!!! My sister's grin just gets bigger the longs she hold that stock...... until the mag goes empty anyway {g}

[Four Fingers of Death]

Invented by ammo manufacturers no doubt, haha.

[Lightning22]

I made this recently to replace the nasty plastic Lyman trickler I own. It did the job but this just does it nicer.

It is turned from a solid aluminium bar with brass bearings inserted before the cutting is done, the tube turns really smoothly and is very easy to control, spin the wheel to get a nice steady flow or touch it for a single grain at a time.

[fred2892]

How did you "rifle groove " the brass tube?

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[Lightning22]

How did you "rifle groove " the brass tube?

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I didn't, just polished and deburred. The Lyman one is just rough inside.

[Johnny_V]

I made one very similar, and my drop tube is internally threaded 1/4" - 28 left hand. Works like a charm.

[NavyVet1959]

I'm thinking that since we're talking firearms here, the powder tricklers should be *blued* steel... Even better, case hardened steel. That would look cool...

Imagine a powder trickler that looked like the steel on this:

[Lightning22]

I'm thinking that since we're talking firearms here, the powder tricklers should be *blued* steel... Even better, case hardened steel. That would look cool...

Imagine a powder trickler that looked like the steel on this:

I can do blued but dread to think how long it would take to cut from a solid bar on my Myford, case colouring I can't do sadly.

[fred2892]

Just dug out a lyman which I discarded when I picked up a redding. Interesting, it too is threaded. But it has a right hand thread cut into the bore. No wonder it never worked too well. Perhaps it was made for the sinister folk out there.



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[Lightning22]

I made one very similar, and my drop tube is internally threaded 1/4" - 28 left hand. Works like a charm.

Nice one, steel or ally?

[Lightning22]

Just dug out a lyman which I discarded when I picked up a redding. Interesting, it too is threaded. But it has a right hand thread cut into the bore. No wonder it never worked too well. Perhaps it was made for the sinister folk out there.



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Interesting, mine just looked roughly finished. I built the ally one with a 3deg slope on the tube. There's an M8 threaded hole in the base which will allow me to add a base to adjust the height if needed.

[Four Fingers of Death]

The old Simplex (Australian reloading equipment company) used to make a blued steel powder trickler. Worked fine, but had to de rust it a few times, haha. I have always been reluctant to oil it. An alloy or plastic one would no doubt lack the feel good factor, but would be a more sensible approach.

[NavyVet1959]

I can do blued but dread to think how long it would take to cut from a solid bar on my Myford, case colouring I can't do sadly.

It's probably something that would best be made in two parts. Make the upper from a piece of steel tubing of the appropriate diameter, internally thread the bottom, and then make a bottom piece that could screw onto the upper tube.

Or maybe externally thread the top piece and make the bottom piece an internally threaded wide base "cap" that screwed onto it.

But, there's nothing to say that it even has to be screwed together. I have to wonder if it would be possible to make the base just slightly less than the upper section and then heat the base to expand it before putting the tubing in it.

[dirk]

Here is my homemade powered trickler made with a hacked rc airplane servo

[Johnny_V]

Nice one, steel or ally?

Steel. I have since rust blued it.

[Traffer]

This is my new "maniacal machine tool". If you look closely you may figure out what it is:
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[NavyVet1959]

This is my new "maniacal machine tool". If you look closely you may figure out what it is:

I'm thinking a way to do hollow points or maybe a mini lathe...

[Traffer]

Well, what it is:
Two identical Harbor Freight Cheapo table top drill presses mounted on the same post, one on each end, facing each other. One has a 5/8" chuck the other has a 1/2" The first pics are of me aligning it with a piece of drill rod snugged up in both chucks. I use it as a lathe and a center drill (which a lathe does anyway). The use of dremel type grinding tools with diamond bits allows me to make many things with it. Including my own swaging dies swaging 22lr bullets (and eventually 9mm also). If I move one head out of the way I can put long things in the chuck if I hook up a roller of the back ends of them. The metal bracket that attaches them via a couple of 2x10's with the proper sized hole, is the back support from an old office chair. The wood is from a recycled water bed and a recycled sleeper sofa, The legs of the bench are from an old bar stool with pieces of the metal from the fold out bed reinforcing them. The drill rig can unbolt and then I have a bench for my loading/swaging press and also a bench for my vise. I had to build something very small to fit in our tiny living room which is what I use for a machine shop.