I was thinking on getting a mold to make wheel weights to balance the tires on mine and my wifes cars. Might even be a market out there for them? Dennis
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I was thinking on getting a mold to make wheel weights to balance the tires on mine and my wifes cars. Might even be a market out there for them? Dennis
I have a bagpiper and a knight. My kids love making them but alas, I make them use lead free mix on them and save the lead for shooting. Funny how after casting one or two figurines the kids get bored, but after 100 bullets they still want to cast more!
Matthew
Don't know about the market, but I could sure use them from the secondary market after they have been used and replaced.Might even be a market out there for them?
Your question jogged my memory about small toy cannon and toy airplane molds that I bought back in 1985 so I went to the cabinet and found them in a box right where I left them. The company I ordered them from sold tin soldier molds and the like and I thought it might be a fun diversion but I remember that I got bored with trying to get good fill-out from the thin aluminum halves that lacked alignment pins and decided to come back to it another time. Maybe another time is nearly here.
Valley Forge
A retired colleague and friend of mine used to have all sorts of figurine molds - band members, WWI and WWII soldiers, the complete M*A*S*H cast and crew, including a mold to cast a litter/stretcher and two attendants, cowboys and Indians, etc. For years he sold the figurines at his chiurch's annual yard sale.
A couple years ago he quit doing it because of liability concerns and sold all his molds off. I didn't want them at the price he set (and got, more power to him) but I did buy all his scrap lead and a rack of Acro bins. I ended up with a kitty litter bucket of figurines. I plan on keeping one of the best examples of each type and melting the rest. There isn't a complete set of any group by the way.
I will not sell any of them for the same liability concerns.
Just my Sling Shot Mould. Forty Cavity.
Lucky Joe
"There's always a way."
Molds for all kinds of fishing and trolling etc...gear, gill net and cast net weights, decoy anchors, good use for the zinc! Even have an antique mold for full body decoys, they were used on sinkboxes. Best to all, 10 ga
10 gauge: as per Robert Ruark, "use enough gun"
MOLON LABE
"I have a list, and am prepared for widespread civil disorder!" 10 ga
This mould drops 1" diameter cylinders. I use these cast in pure tin and 60/40 solder to mix up batches of alloy.
Jerry
S&W .38/44 Outdoorsman Accumulator
I have my original Gilbert toy soldier set the electric casting pot and several molds.horse and rider marching soldier,machine gunner,fire engine.ect.
I too have a potter 2/3 lb electric pot.I think as soon as it gets warm I will cast some up.
dont melt the toys collectors will pay handsome for them.
WILDCATT
That would leave backwards writings on the ingot!Originally Posted by Lucky Joe
Just my Sling Shot Mould. Forty Cavity.
something like
TOHS GNILS
10 etc..
I've got a couple of core molds laying around here along with ingot and bullet molds .
Jack
I'm all for it.
It'll help in easing our sources of wheelweights.
SHiloh
Je suis Charlie
"A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves."
Bertrand de Jouvenel
Any government that does not trust its citizens with firearms is either a tyranny, or planning to become one. Joseph P. Martino
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert , in five years there would be a shortage of sand. Milton Friedman
"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns; why should we let them have ideas?" - J. Stalin
I have a baby, a tea, and a table spoon for river fishing weights.
They can take my guns when they get past my IED's.
I have 25-30 Do-IT sinker/jig moulds. I used to cast sinkers and such to support the gunfund monies. Then I found alot better uses for my alloy and am now too stingy and no longer want to see it snagged in the bottom of the river. I really should sell them molds but about the time I do...I will want one of em.
Where did you get the 1" diam cyl mold?
Thanks
Glenn
A cast iron Gingerbread man that will cast eight at a time. Neil
I have a mold that makes 15# dive weights. I got it so I could dive the local river for the "gold mine" of salmon fishing weights that are in there. i figured it was worth the investment. if anyone wants some cast up, send me the equivalent weight in tin and i'll send you a couple weights for aswimmin'!! HAHA
kevin
"These are not hi-capacity magazines, these are standard capacity magazines. High capacity is belt fed from the can."
I have a mold I don't know what it is for. It casts the round nose of a bullet with a short stem (stud) behind the round nose. Its as if it is made to drop in another mold and pour the rest of the bullet behind it.
Rich or poor, it's good to have money.
hiram, If you could find the corresponding full boolit mold to go with it, it could be used to create soft nosed boolits. I've seen molds that had both a nose portion and a full boolit in the same mold.
I know I don't have the other mold. I think I have some pieces somewhere. If I can find them, I will post pics.
Rich or poor, it's good to have money.
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