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    Boredom struck a while back, so here's a tool I built to remove military crimp. Twas fun!


    I don't run the bit down in the vid, cuz I had already run this batch.
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    Did someone build a brass trimmer out of an old sewing machine? I'd love to see pictures
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    Pretty lame, but this is a little press I made out of an old nutcracker, I use it for the freechex.

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    My homemade core cutter able to process the lead wire up to 12mm.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Tom Ruley View Post
    Did someone build a brass trimmer out of an old sewing machine? I'd love to see pictures
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    Yes, I did this for doing it with a Lee hand trimmer.
    It is variable speed and foot operated which frees up both hands.
    I screwed up the free motor I had so I had to find another machine which I found for $10 at a goodwill type store.

    The base is a piece of scrap from another project. No real reason for the odd shape,,, it is so I can clamp the set-up to my bench.
    Last edited by Longwood; 02-04-2012 at 07:40 PM.

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    Prety good stuff in here. I'll have to hang onto the old golf balls I come across for handles on deburring tools. The small wood balls just dont do it plus I bet the dimples help with grip.

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    Awesome thread.
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    Quote Originally Posted by WilNsc View Post
    Prety good stuff in here. I'll have to hang onto the old golf balls I come across for handles on deburring tools. The small wood balls just dont do it plus I bet the dimples help with grip.
    I suspect that the dimples help with speed... The boundary layer of air is switching from laminar to turbulent air flow... Or something like that... As such, a golf ball handle would work sufficiently faster than a billiard ball handle...
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    The only thing that I've had to create so far is a primer level indicator for my Dillon primer tube. I just took a 1/8" bronze brazing rod and put it in my primer tube when it was completely empty... I cut the rod about 1.25" longer than the top of the primer tube shield and then bent the top 3/4" at a 90 degree angle... This serves two purposes... It gives me an indication of when I'm running low on primers and it adds a bit of weight to the stack of primers so that they feed better.
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    grumman581,

    I did the same thing for the star universal primer feed. almost the same measurements too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by manleyjt View Post
    grumman581,

    I did the same thing for the star universal primer feed. almost the same measurements too.
    Obviously, great minds think alike...

    I'm just estimating the measurements though... It was more of a "stick it in, that looks about right, cut it and bend it" type of thing...

    Don't remember if I put it in a vice to ensure that I had a nice sharp 90 degree angle and heated the bend area or not, but I suspect that it could also be done cold... I also used a piece of the bronze brazing rod as a punch for when I was building an AR-15... It was the only "tool" that I didn't have at the time...
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    Smile Turn table for annealing

    Made this out of a broken microwave.
    Cut out the bottom inside of the oven.
    Made a stand out of scrap wood.
    Wired the motor to the plug.
    Put a cake pan on top of the glass turn table.
    Fill with water up to the level I want the anneal to stop.
    Plug it in, heat shell with a propane torch, tip it over when I get the right color.
    Works like a charm.
    Last edited by abunaitoo; 09-06-2012 at 03:51 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by abunaitoo View Post
    Made this out of a broken microwave.
    Cut out the bottom inside of the oven.
    Made a stand out of scrap wood.
    Wired the motor to the plug.
    Put a cake pan on top of the glass turn table.
    Fill with water up to the level I want the anneal to stop.
    Plug it in, heat shell with a propane torch, tip it over when I get the right color.
    Works like a charm.
    I thought that if you were dropping the heated metal into water, it would be classified as "tempering" instead of "annealing"...

    A quick web search brought up:

    Quote Originally Posted by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annealing_(metallurgy)
    In the cases of copper, steel, silver, and brass, this process is performed by substantially heating the material (generally until glowing) for a while and allowing it to cool. Unlike ferrous metals—which must be cooled slowly to anneal—copper, silver[1] and brass can be cooled slowly in air or quickly by quenching in water. In this fashion the metal is softened and prepared for further work such as shaping, stamping, or forming.
    Interesting... I didn't know that copper, silver, and brass acted differently than steel in this matter...

    Apparently lead acts more like steel since water quenching makes for a harder alloy...
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    What to do with that worthless stock

    Check this out.
    It is not my ad.

    http://www.ebay.com/itm/RCBS-POWDER-...item4ab39ddee0

    I have burned stocks I now wish I had.

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    you think you guys are sad in the talent dept. I'm lucky I can make ear wax. great stuff you all. keep up the great work. GD
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    Quote Originally Posted by Longwood View Post
    Check this out.
    It is not my ad.

    http://www.ebay.com/itm/RCBS-POWDER-...item4ab39ddee0

    I have burned stocks I now wish I had.
    Looks neat... Seems like it would be a bit top heavy and prone to tipping over though... You would still have to bolt or glue it down to your table somehow...
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    Quote Originally Posted by grumman581 View Post
    Looks neat... Seems like it would be a bit top heavy and prone to tipping over though... You would still have to bolt or glue it down to your table somehow...
    You could always lighten it up near the top by drilling and weight the bottom.
    I work with metal mostly but I do wish I had some of the wood the stocks were made from.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Longwood View Post
    You could always lighten it up near the top by drilling and weight the bottom.
    I work with metal mostly but I do wish I had some of the wood the stocks were made from.
    One of these days, I'm hoping to get around to building another AR-15 with a set of walnut furniture... Everyone has black plastic furniture on their AR, but you just don't see any with nice walnut furniture... It will be different...

    Something like this:


    Or this:

    Not that I'm exactly a fan of a red colored upper and lower, but the wood does look nice...
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    Very, very nice grumman581. I doft my cap to you sir.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lucky Joe View Post
    Very, very nice grumman581. I doft my cap to you sir.
    I take it that you are talking about the walnut furniture AR... Well, when I originally came up with the idea of doing it, no one made sold any type of wood furniture for ARs, much less walnut... So, I put the project on hold and figured I would get to it "one of these days"... The image that I posted is not my project, it's something that I found on the web today when I did yet another search for "walnut AR-15 furniture"... Turns out that there are a couple of companies selling it these days... I've got a few other things on my "to do" list before I get around to this unfortunately, but at least now I know that it is at least something where the parts are commercially available...
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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"
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