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    Modifying a 4-banger Lyman

    A duplicate... can't delete, don't know how, not easily determined in edit mode...
    I had a Lyman 4-banger 429244 mold that I had never used, and put it on eBay, sold it - and will get it back in a couple of days. Top of the blocks were chipped, so would not cast suitable boolits. My plan is to take it to a machinist and have him mill the tops of the blocks to take out the GC shank, making them PB boolits. Cost might make it silly to do, but... Any comments?
    Last edited by Echo; 05-20-2018 at 03:01 PM. Reason: duplicate

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    I had a h/g with chips out of the beveled base and had Eric open up the mold to a plan base this took care of the chipped problem , just a thought .

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    A fly cutter will do the work you want done. I can't imagine it'll take a machinist that long, so cost shoulnd't be terrible. Whether it's worth it or not is hard to say, but it's certainly easy enough.
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