straightarrow
02-20-2012, 08:12 AM
Got tired of tumble lube mess on my cast bullets so started dipping them as shown on the ranch dog site. Better but still had to clean each bullet as seating and crimping them pushed some lube up onto the bullet (wanted them clean for semi autos).
Went to several home stores and a hardware store trying to find a tube(like $25 wax meister) the size of a 45 acp bullet to push them through to skim off excess. No luck. I showed the problem to my wife and she said try a plastic kitchen funnel. I checked some of the small plastic kitchen funnels and found one that would let a 45 just squeeze through. Set the bullets on the work bench held the funnel up right and pushed down on the bullet then the next and so on till they started comming out the flared section of the funnel. This also acted as a bullet reservoir and you can just dump the cleaned bullets into another container.
Just in the plastic funnels laying around the work shop found one that perfectly fits 38,40 and 45 caliber cast bullets. Cheap, easy and works great.
Went to several home stores and a hardware store trying to find a tube(like $25 wax meister) the size of a 45 acp bullet to push them through to skim off excess. No luck. I showed the problem to my wife and she said try a plastic kitchen funnel. I checked some of the small plastic kitchen funnels and found one that would let a 45 just squeeze through. Set the bullets on the work bench held the funnel up right and pushed down on the bullet then the next and so on till they started comming out the flared section of the funnel. This also acted as a bullet reservoir and you can just dump the cleaned bullets into another container.
Just in the plastic funnels laying around the work shop found one that perfectly fits 38,40 and 45 caliber cast bullets. Cheap, easy and works great.