Gentlemen,
I heard that RCBS is offering equipment to produce gas-checks out of copper light sheet. I cannot find this in their website. Any help will be appreciated.
Antonio
I'm sorry, I had bum dope. Corbin is making the thing and I've found it already.
Last edited by Machado; 12-11-2006 at 02:24 PM. Reason: New info
Machado,
why not make gas check tools by yourself?This is my (still unfinished) tool for .45 gas checks.
Kaj
Last edited by KTN; 06-13-2008 at 10:11 AM.
I have talked with them about that gas check maker before. Just haven't ordered it. Seems awesome, won't really save you any money for a long, long, long, long, long, time though. and you would need to buy your gas check material in big time bulk. All that is if you are in it to save money. Goodness knows I don't do half the stuff I do in guns, casting to save money though just cause its cool.And when I compared the thickness of a hornady check to what I would need to buy to duplicate it hornady's looked pretty nice after all.
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KTn does that stamp and from in one step? also how is it powered, i.e. Air, elbow grease, JFM?
more pics would be nice
Dagamore,
it is two step operation,stamp discs and then form.On the right is formdie and punch.This first testrun was powered by BIG hammer
Kaj
Kaj, You´ve been productive.
I wonder If I ever have time to mess with lathe and milling machine at school.
Kaj
Did you help the guy from Finland build the jet motors so he could fly?
..................Kaj gets a lathe and he's become a maniac.
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KTN thanks for the quick reply.
What are you using to stop from, could you use any copper sheet? also if you were to make one for sale how much would you want?
As I have said earlier,this IS addictiveOriginally Posted by Buckshot
..................Kaj gets a lathe and he's become a maniac
.................Buckshot,so all of you who are thinking about buying a lathe,you have been warned
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Pystis,
make some time to use those machines at school.With those machines and tooling they have at school,there isn't much you can't do.
4060MAY,
jet motors?I'm dreaming about building a liquid fuel rocket motor some day.
Dagamore,
those checks in picture are made from 0.7mm aluminium that is a bit too thick,tools are made for 0.5 mm sheet.Copper and brass are what I will be using.You wouldn't want to know how long it took to make this tool.I'm thinking about making next tool to fit reloading press,so I don't need to make the press myself.Price?I need to think about that.
Kaj
Kaj,
You might want to alter the design a little bit fir different material. FWIW, most newspapers use 0.30 mm thick aluminum for printing plates and go through a lot of plates every day. At about 12-24" wide and about 23" long (depending on the type of press), you an get a lot of gas checks out of 1 scrap plate.
Rick
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about 1400 .375 discs from a 23x23 plate!This doesNOT allow for any waste though!
Hornet,
as always I'm using all those materials that I can get for free,and since my daywork is making things from sheetmetal,I can have 0.5 mm copper,brass and aluminium scrap pieces for free
Kaj
Is that Finnish- Red Neck HillBilly at it again?..
Is that Finnish- Red Neck HillBilly at it again?..
Kaj
I wish that Kji, lived next door to me.
Jim
I'd take one, made to make checks outta beer cans, if someone with a lathe wanted to make one that would fit a reloading press. Not asking, mind you (LOL), just sayin.
SSB
You could always move to Finland. 'Course you'd HAVE TO buy a suppressor once you got there...I wish that Kji, lived next door to me.
Jim
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Almost ready.Heat treating and final sharpening of dies,and it should be ready for service.Some little modifications might be needed,like making longer linkage to lever to make disc cutting lighter.
Kaj
Last edited by KTN; 06-13-2008 at 10:11 AM.
Nice work!
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