Push thru sizer

[cbrick]

My X? Which one?

Rick

[btroj]

Wow, slow learned are you?

If only you could pick wives like you can cast bullets.....

Mine is good, she was well trained by a fellow member here. 1shirt raised her well.

[cbrick]

Slow learner? I dunno, there's only been three.

Casting is easier. When a casting session doesn't go well ya just through them back in the pot. Wives for some strange reason tend to resist being tossed into a pot of molten lead.

Rick

[btroj]

Slow learner? I dunno, there's only been three.

Casting is easier. When a casting session doesn't go well ya just through them back in the pot. Wives for some strange reason tend to resist being tossed into a pot of molten lead.

Rick

Small wife or big pot of lead?

And three? Damn man, you aren't a slow learner, you are a glutton for punishment.

[cbrick]

First one died of cancer. The second one should have died of cancer. Slowly. Third one ate herself to death.

Rick

[littlejack]

I made a push through sizer die for my Lyman 525 sabot slugs. I wanted to try the slugs in a different wad, of which I have two bags. These wads have thicker petals, and the slug was not made to fit in them.
I uses a 7/8 x 14 grade 5 bolt. First, I drilled the center hole. Then I bored it to a few thousands of the my desired I.D. Then, I used a piece round stock split a couple inches on one end. I slipped emery cloth in the slit and wrapped it around the stock to get a tight fit needed to polish to size. The emery cloth is aggressive at the start, but as it wears, it polishes very well.
The wall thickness of the die is purty thin, but the die works perfect.
Jack

[jmorris]

That is a lot of work, the first one I built used a double split set collar to hold the homemade die.

[deltaenterprizes]

I need a thread file. I need lots of tooling. My wife commented on the number of boxes around the house from Enco.......

The lathe was cheap, it is the dang drills, reamers, and what not that add up fast. Now I need a dang place to store all that stuff.

The tooling is usually as much as the lathe or double, sometimes triple.
I have lost count how much I have in tooling, it STARTED at $3000 almost 10 years ago and I am still adding tooling when I see it at the right price.

[woodbutcher]

Hi btroj.Know what you mean about tooling eatin` your lunch.A few years back,a friend bought a nice South Bend lathe at a surplus sale at Jacksonville Naval station in Fl.5k for the lathe and about 500lbs of tooling with it.One year later,he had also spent an additional 15K for more tooling,and no end in sight.
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo

[btroj]

The tooling is eating me alive. Soon I will need to buy a place to store it. Sure glad I didn't know it was gonna be like this, I woulda been dumb enough to tell my wife and I wouldn't have a lathe in the garage.

[deltaenterprizes]

Now that you have a lathe you need a mill to go with it!

[btroj]

Please don't tell my wife that! I will say the garage has a 60 amp sub panel. She doesn't know why but I do......

[cbrick]

Please don't tell my wife that! I will say the garage has a 60 amp sub panel. She doesn't know why but I do......

Dialing her cell number right now . . .

Rick

[btroj]

Rick, haven't you learned by now that calling women just leads to troubles?

[cbrick]

Not for the caller.

[btroj]

She says she didn't get a call from a guy who sounds like Eric Holder. Did you get a wrong number Rick?

[country gent]

And with the end mill youll want a cutter grinder to save money sharpening your used mills and a surface grinder to get trully accurate surfaces, and an id / od grinder, And oh yea the tooling for each one.

[btroj]

You trying to get me killed?

[cbrick]

She says she didn't get a call from a guy who sounds like Eric Holder. Did you get a wrong number Rick?

No, no wrong number. I just decided to give ya a break and let ya live. Besides, you have another 20 grand to spend on tooling before ya can worry about a mill and then the tooling for that.

Rick

[btroj]

I would have that mill and tooling sooner if you would tell your uncle to get out of my pockets.