Performance reloading equipment.
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Did someone build a brass trimmer out of an old sewing machine? I'd love to see pictures
Thanks
Tom.
Yes, I did this for doing it with a Lee hand trimmer.
It is variable speed and foot operated which frees up both hands.
I screwed up the free motor I had so I had to find another machine which I found for $10 at a goodwill type store.
The base is a piece of scrap from another project. No real reason for the odd shape,,, it is so I can clamp the set-up to my bench.
Last edited by Longwood; 02-04-2012 at 07:40 PM.
Prety good stuff in here. I'll have to hang onto the old golf balls I come across for handles on deburring tools. The small wood balls just dont do it plus I bet the dimples help with grip.
Awesome thread.
Boolits= as God laid it into the soil,,grand old Galena,the Silver Stream graciously hand poured into molds for our consumption.
Bullets= Machine made utilizing Full Length Gas Checks as to provide projectiles for the masses.
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The only thing that I've had to create so far is a primer level indicator for my Dillon primer tube. I just took a 1/8" bronze brazing rod and put it in my primer tube when it was completely empty... I cut the rod about 1.25" longer than the top of the primer tube shield and then bent the top 3/4" at a 90 degree angle... This serves two purposes... It gives me an indication of when I'm running low on primers and it adds a bit of weight to the stack of primers so that they feed better.
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grumman581,
I did the same thing for the star universal primer feed. almost the same measurements too.
Obviously, great minds think alike...
I'm just estimating the measurements though... It was more of a "stick it in, that looks about right, cut it and bend it" type of thing...
Don't remember if I put it in a vice to ensure that I had a nice sharp 90 degree angle and heated the bend area or not, but I suspect that it could also be done cold... I also used a piece of the bronze brazing rod as a punch for when I was building an AR-15... It was the only "tool" that I didn't have at the time...
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Made this out of a broken microwave.
Cut out the bottom inside of the oven.
Made a stand out of scrap wood.
Wired the motor to the plug.
Put a cake pan on top of the glass turn table.
Fill with water up to the level I want the anneal to stop.
Plug it in, heat shell with a propane torch, tip it over when I get the right color.
Works like a charm.
Last edited by abunaitoo; 09-06-2012 at 03:51 AM.
I thought that if you were dropping the heated metal into water, it would be classified as "tempering" instead of "annealing"...
A quick web search brought up:
Interesting... I didn't know that copper, silver, and brass acted differently than steel in this matter...Originally Posted by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annealing_(metallurgy)
Apparently lead acts more like steel since water quenching makes for a harder alloy...
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Check this out.
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I have burned stocks I now wish I had.
you think you guys are sad in the talent dept. I'm lucky I can make ear wax. great stuff you all. keep up the great work. GD
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One of these days, I'm hoping to get around to building another AR-15 with a set of walnut furniture... Everyone has black plastic furniture on their AR, but you just don't see any with nice walnut furniture... It will be different...
Something like this:
Or this:
Not that I'm exactly a fan of a red colored upper and lower, but the wood does look nice...
Last edited by grumman581; 02-03-2012 at 04:37 PM.
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Very, very nice grumman581. I doft my cap to you sir.
Lucky Joe
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I take it that you are talking about the walnut furniture AR... Well, when I originally came up with the idea of doing it, no one made sold any type of wood furniture for ARs, much less walnut... So, I put the project on hold and figured I would get to it "one of these days"... The image that I posted is not my project, it's something that I found on the web today when I did yet another search for "walnut AR-15 furniture"... Turns out that there are a couple of companies selling it these days... I've got a few other things on my "to do" list before I get around to this unfortunately, but at least now I know that it is at least something where the parts are commercially available...
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BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |