More Gas Checks

mrbill2 · 11-02-2009, 07:08 PM

Over the past couple of weeks there have been quite a few posts about making gas checks. Thought I might see if I could come up with my own tool to do the job. I wanted a tool that I can use in my loading press to cut and form checks with a single stroke of the press. I desided that I would make the checks form .015 to
.020 aluminum. Well to make a long story short, mission accomplished. See the pictures. The tool makes gas checks ready to use as fast as I want to feed the metal strips and move the press handle. I have been to the range several times to see if my checks will shoot as good as store bought checks. I have shot three different bullets at 100 yds. and all do just fine. The one in the picture was shot with a old Lyman 311467. Just a little over 5/8" .660. All in all my tool works just fine, but I do want to tweek things just a bit.

I made a trip to the local scrap yard today and bought 8"x .018 Al flashing 45 feet
long for $12.00 bucks. If I did the math right that enough for over 17000 checks.
Not a bad days work.

AZ-Stew · 11-02-2009, 08:14 PM

Drawings??

Regards,

Stew

bedwards · 11-02-2009, 08:22 PM

I wanna buy one for my 311467, 430265 and 358156!

Bert2368 · 11-02-2009, 09:17 PM

Any chance that will become a production item?

jdgabbard · 11-02-2009, 09:23 PM

Very good sir! Now put it into production for your friends at cast boolits!

Ekalb2000 · 11-02-2009, 10:44 PM

Production date???

Idaho Sharpshooter · 11-02-2009, 10:48 PM

Where is the order line?

30, 35, 375, 416, 44 (works for for 404 Jeffery as well), 45 and 458...

Rich

RobS · 11-02-2009, 11:30 PM

Really interesting. A man with time and innovation, simply cool what a person can manage, great job. I'll be watching your gas check posts!!!

desteve811 · 11-03-2009, 06:38 AM

Nice work! So whens production starting?

mrbill2 · 11-03-2009, 05:37 PM

Thanks fellows. I wish I could make one for everyone, but that's not in the cards right now, but maybe some time down the road. The only cast bullets I shoot are for my benchrest rifle in production class 308Win.. That's what got me started with cast and I just had a idea that I could come up with something to lessen the cost of checks. Prices for checks are nuts. I made some more checks today and want to do some more shooting before I would get into making any tools for sale. I'll keep you posted as to my progress. Till Later.

HollowPoint · 11-03-2009, 06:12 PM

Greetings MrBill2:

I've been thinking of making my own gas check tool as well but, right now I've got a couple of other projects in the works that's taking all my spare time.

I'm glad to see that you and Pat Marlins have the tinkering smarts to come up with these gizmos. That tells me that most of us other boolit casters could probably make one of these tools up for ourselves given the time and determination.

Thanks for posting your success with this new tool you've built.
Really, I mean it.

One of the other guys inquired about drawings. I guess I'm not the only chronic do-it-yourselfer on this forum.

HollowPoint

mrbill2 · 11-04-2009, 06:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HollowPoint

Greetings MrBill2:

I've been thinking of making my own gas check tool as well but, right now I've got a couple of other projects in the works that's taking all my spare time.

I'm glad to see that you and Pat Marlins have the tinkering smarts to come up with these gizmos. That tells me that most of us other boolit casters could probably make one of these tools up for ourselves given the time and determination.

Thanks for posting your success with this new tool you've built.
Really, I mean it.

One of the other guys inquired about drawings. I guess I'm not the only chronic do-it-yourselfer on this forum.

HollowPoint

Hello Mr. HollowPoint
I do like to tinker in my basement shop. Have a lathe, mill and all that good stuff. Most of the time I'm either down there or at the rifle range or shooting match somewhere. Now that winter is coming I'll get more shop time. I'm 66 and don't like the cold. I was playing with that tool today and just for so cut a plastic container in strips and ran them through. Makes nice little plastic checks. Only problem is they won't hold their shape. Maybe some heat !! Never know, just might work.
Drawings, not yet. Just kinda made it up in my head as I went along.
Till Next Time

Xcaliber · 11-06-2009, 09:30 PM

Hello Mrbill2, that gas check maker looks good and seems to make some good looking checks. I also am interested in one of your tools should you ever get the time. : ). I enjoy looking at things made by an individual and wished I still had access to the shop. Should you ever need End mills and drills i have some new and re-sharpened tools not being used at all. Very nice work.

bigthicketthunter · 11-07-2009, 07:58 AM

mrbill2 i toowould love to get one of you check tools. if there is a list put me on it.

Andy

mrbill2 · 11-07-2009, 08:36 AM

If and when I get one ready to sell, I'll be sure to post. I have some health issues to deal with and some days are better than others. Getting old can be a PITA.

Ricky P · 11-07-2009, 09:31 AM

If iam looking at it right its a one step process ? after its cut into strips just run it and one time and you got GCs now I like that ideal. I would to be interested in one for 30s 44 and 45cals. So Christmas is comeing if you are feeling like Santa let me know I PM my addy lol.

zuke · 11-07-2009, 12:10 PM

Would you mind giving a detailed step by step so we can get an idea on how to go about making our own?
No use in re-inventing the wheel.

Tom W. · 11-07-2009, 12:34 PM

I'd like to have one for a .30 cal also....

mrbill2 · 11-07-2009, 09:15 PM

# 1 Ricky P you are correct. One stroke one GC.
#2 Zuke I wish had a thousand of these tool made up and ready to sell for x amount of dollars, I couldn't lick the stamps fast enough to get them in the mail. That said, I'm not about to GIVE my idea away. It wouldn't take long before someone would be making and selling them on Ebay.

StarMetal · 11-08-2009, 08:52 AM

Don't worry MrBill, you don't have to give your idea away as you're not the only one that can make a one stroke completed gas check maker.

Here's mine:

Don't ask fellows, far as I'm concerned they are too labor intensive to make for me to sell at a decent price and make a profit. Get a lathe and learn how to make your own.

Joe

11-02-2009, 07:08 PM	#1
mrbill2 Boolit Man Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Lebanon County Pa. Posts: 121	More Gas Checks Over the past couple of weeks there have been quite a few posts about making gas checks. Thought I might see if I could come up with my own tool to do the job. I wanted a tool that I can use in my loading press to cut and form checks with a single stroke of the press. I desided that I would make the checks form .015 to .020 aluminum. Well to make a long story short, mission accomplished. See the pictures. The tool makes gas checks ready to use as fast as I want to feed the metal strips and move the press handle. I have been to the range several times to see if my checks will shoot as good as store bought checks. I have shot three different bullets at 100 yds. and all do just fine. The one in the picture was shot with a old Lyman 311467. Just a little over 5/8" .660. All in all my tool works just fine, but I do want to tweek things just a bit. I made a trip to the local scrap yard today and bought 8"x .018 Al flashing 45 feet long for $12.00 bucks. If I did the math right that enough for over 17000 checks. Not a bad days work. Attached Thumbnails __________________ Mr. Bill2 CB Tip: John spilled his ammo coming up the celler steps getting ready to go to a rifle match. He won the match. Now he spills all his ammo down the celler steps after reloading.

11-02-2009, 09:17 PM	#4
Bert2368 Boolit Master Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Blasted hellish frozen northern wastelands, AKA Minnesota Posts: 178	Any chance that will become a production item? __________________ "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."

11-02-2009, 09:23 PM	#5
jdgabbard Boolit Master Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma Posts: 1,013	Very good sir! Now put it into production for your friends at cast boolits! __________________ JDGabbard's Feedback Thread "A hand on a gun is better than a cop on the phone," Jerry Ellis, Oklahoma State House of Representatives. The neighbors refer to me affectionately as, "The nut up on the ridge with the cannon." - MaxHeadSpace. Jdgabbard's very own boolit boxes pattern!

11-03-2009, 05:37 PM	#10
mrbill2 Boolit Man Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Lebanon County Pa. Posts: 121	Thanks fellows. I wish I could make one for everyone, but that's not in the cards right now, but maybe some time down the road. The only cast bullets I shoot are for my benchrest rifle in production class 308Win.. That's what got me started with cast and I just had a idea that I could come up with something to lessen the cost of checks. Prices for checks are nuts. I made some more checks today and want to do some more shooting before I would get into making any tools for sale. I'll keep you posted as to my progress. Till Later. __________________ Mr. Bill2 CB Tip: John spilled his ammo coming up the celler steps getting ready to go to a rifle match. He won the match. Now he spills all his ammo down the celler steps after reloading.

11-06-2009, 09:30 PM	#13
Xcaliber Boolit Bub Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Ballinger Posts: 25	Someday Hello Mrbill2, that gas check maker looks good and seems to make some good looking checks. I also am interested in one of your tools should you ever get the time. : ). I enjoy looking at things made by an individual and wished I still had access to the shop. Should you ever need End mills and drills i have some new and re-sharpened tools not being used at all. Very nice work. __________________ Theres K.I.S. and then theres K.I.S.S. I like to keep it simple

11-02-2009, 08:14 PM	#2
AZ-Stew Boolit Master Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Mesa, AZ Posts: 1,351	Drawings?? Regards, Stew __________________ Ask your anti-gun politician: "What is it that you want to do that you don't feel safe doing until you get me disarmed?" Shoot all intolerant people! Every last one of them! Archery: The only sport where you can't try it until you've nocked it. "I (did, on several occasions) swear to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, against ALL enemies, foriegn AND domestic, and to bear true faith and allegiance to the same." And when I left, they never asked me to recant.

11-02-2009, 08:22 PM	#3
bedwards Boolit Man Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Birmingham, Al. Posts: 135	I wanna buy one for my 311467, 430265 and 358156!

11-02-2009, 10:44 PM	#6
Ekalb2000 Boolit Man Join Date: May 2009 Location: Panama City, FL Posts: 102	Production date???

11-02-2009, 10:48 PM	#7
Idaho Sharpshooter Boolit Master Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: SW Idaho Posts: 526	Where is the order line? 30, 35, 375, 416, 44 (works for for 404 Jeffery as well), 45 and 458... Rich

11-02-2009, 11:30 PM	#8
RobS Boolit Buddy Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Kansas Posts: 61	Really interesting. A man with time and innovation, simply cool what a person can manage, great job. I'll be watching your gas check posts!!!

11-03-2009, 06:38 AM	#9
desteve811 Boolit Man Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: DE Posts: 143	Nice work! So whens production starting?

11-03-2009, 06:12 PM	#11
HollowPoint Boolit Buddy Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Arizona Desert Country Posts: 71	Greetings MrBill2: I've been thinking of making my own gas check tool as well but, right now I've got a couple of other projects in the works that's taking all my spare time. I'm glad to see that you and Pat Marlins have the tinkering smarts to come up with these gizmos. That tells me that most of us other boolit casters could probably make one of these tools up for ourselves given the time and determination. Thanks for posting your success with this new tool you've built. Really, I mean it. One of the other guys inquired about drawings. I guess I'm not the only chronic do-it-yourselfer on this forum. HollowPoint

11-07-2009, 07:58 AM	#14
bigthicketthunter Boolit Buddy Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: virginia beach, va Posts: 51	mrbill2 i toowould love to get one of you check tools. if there is a list put me on it. Andy

11-07-2009, 08:36 AM	#15
mrbill2 Boolit Man Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Lebanon County Pa. Posts: 121	If and when I get one ready to sell, I'll be sure to post. I have some health issues to deal with and some days are better than others. Getting old can be a PITA. __________________ Mr. Bill2 CB Tip: John spilled his ammo coming up the celler steps getting ready to go to a rifle match. He won the match. Now he spills all his ammo down the celler steps after reloading.

11-07-2009, 09:31 AM	#16
Ricky P Boolit Master and People Person Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Nahunta Posts: 311	If iam looking at it right its a one step process ? after its cut into strips just run it and one time and you got GCs now I like that ideal. I would to be interested in one for 30s 44 and 45cals. So Christmas is comeing if you are feeling like Santa let me know I PM my addy lol. __________________ LEE TUREET 4 HOLE UPGRADE PARTS FOR TRADE FOR YOUR LEE TURRET 3 HOLE PARTS I HAVE TWO PM ME FOR A EVEN TRADE

11-07-2009, 12:10 PM	#17
zuke Boolit Man Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Cochrane Ont Posts: 94	Would you mind giving a detailed step by step so we can get an idea on how to go about making our own? No use in re-inventing the wheel.

11-07-2009, 12:34 PM	#18
Tom W. Boolit Master Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Eufaula, Alabama Posts: 545	I'd like to have one for a .30 cal also.... __________________ Tom www.leekingbenefit.org

11-07-2009, 09:15 PM	#19
mrbill2 Boolit Man Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Lebanon County Pa. Posts: 121	# 1 Ricky P you are correct. One stroke one GC. #2 Zuke I wish had a thousand of these tool made up and ready to sell for x amount of dollars, I couldn't lick the stamps fast enough to get them in the mail. That said, I'm not about to GIVE my idea away. It wouldn't take long before someone would be making and selling them on Ebay. __________________ Mr. Bill2 CB Tip: John spilled his ammo coming up the celler steps getting ready to go to a rifle match. He won the match. Now he spills all his ammo down the celler steps after reloading.

11-08-2009, 08:52 AM	#20
StarMetal Boolit Master Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 2,538	Don't worry MrBill, you don't have to give your idea away as you're not the only one that can make a one stroke completed gas check maker. Here's mine: Don't ask fellows, far as I'm concerned they are too labor intensive to make for me to sell at a decent price and make a profit. Get a lathe and learn how to make your own. Joe __________________ Nobody's right if everybody's wrong.