Sprue Channel

[Jon K]

[quote=EDK;428207]...the TREE milling machine hates me and tries to eat every project I get near it with.

It's like Ford & Chevy, only which flavor you like. I like the J-head size Bridgeport and a Tree.........just my opinion, as there other machines out there.

Jon

[TAWILDCATT]

MORGAN:I dont see why not on LEE,I did it on my 4 cavity lymans.and yes it is hensley and gibbs thats where I got my idea from.the lead allows the bullet to pull in stock and helps to fill the bullet.It should be especialy good on large double cavity bullets.

[Doc Highwall]

Gussy is the person who had the thick sprue plates with the long handles for Lyman moulds in one and two cavity.

[Bullshop]

So is this new sprue channel anything like the discovery channel?
BIC/BS

[EDK]

[QUOTE=Jon K;429216]

...the TREE milling machine hates me and tries to eat every project I get near it with.

It's like Ford & Chevy, only which flavor you like. I like the J-head size Bridgeport and a Tree.........just my opinion, as there other machines out there.

Jon

Our TREE is a 40+ year old machine that was all we had in our power plant shop(because the management people hate the machinists with a passion and didn't want to spend money on tools!) We trained on MAXS (a Bridgeport look-alike) for the apprenticeship...all of a week!...and then get a machine job once a year. Obviously, the Bridgeport collet system is superior and more user friendly....unless you're using the TREE on a regular basis. Since we got the Bridgeport, the TREE is now basically a drill press...with a chuck semi-permanently installed.

I work rotating shift and there's some slack time on 4-to-12 PLUS the guys off the street, rather than those who came through the system like I did, are d--- good machinists and are willing to show me how to operate the machines. The electronic control systems are over my head for now, but I've got good teachers...I'll be halfway decent by the time I retire.

[Salmon-boy]

I'm with Bullshop, waiting for the 1:30 program on swaging..

Good thing the Tivo is recording "Fun with Hollow Point moulds" at 10 because it conflicts with Dexter!

[quasi]

I have troughed a Lee 6 cavity mold, it works very well. I plan to do all my 6 cavity Lee's. The plates are very sticky, I used 4 flute carbide cutter, lots of RPM and WD-40 for lube-coolant.