colonelhogan44
02-06-2011, 02:31 AM
I recently read about patmarlin's plain base gas check design, so I thought it would be worth a shot. Being a po' college boy, I decided to make a primitive check maker to (hopefully) duplicate the PB check.
Using primitive tools, I created the following from some nuts and bolts:
http://i586.photobucket.com/albums/ss301/colonelhogan44/100_3430.jpg
The disk cutter is on the left, and the forming die on the right, along with some finished checks. While this machine is slow, it does make them. I tried some from old cans, and some from an aluminum "no trespassing" sign.
The checks fit nicely on the back of my lee 358-158-RF boolits, but when I went to seat the can checks, they required an alarming amount of force, and part of the aluminum was sheared off and deposited in the lube groove. The sign checks required more force still, so I gave up before I broke something. This was all done with a lee .358 push through sizer, with the boolits base first.
Are they usually this hard to seat, or am I doing something wrong here? The boolits were cast a few months ago and air cooled, out of an unknown hard alloy, most likely WW with maybe a splash of Linotype.
Using primitive tools, I created the following from some nuts and bolts:
http://i586.photobucket.com/albums/ss301/colonelhogan44/100_3430.jpg
The disk cutter is on the left, and the forming die on the right, along with some finished checks. While this machine is slow, it does make them. I tried some from old cans, and some from an aluminum "no trespassing" sign.
The checks fit nicely on the back of my lee 358-158-RF boolits, but when I went to seat the can checks, they required an alarming amount of force, and part of the aluminum was sheared off and deposited in the lube groove. The sign checks required more force still, so I gave up before I broke something. This was all done with a lee .358 push through sizer, with the boolits base first.
Are they usually this hard to seat, or am I doing something wrong here? The boolits were cast a few months ago and air cooled, out of an unknown hard alloy, most likely WW with maybe a splash of Linotype.