so who here can do it?

[Lloyd Smale]

Make us an affordable shot maker and get a group buy going on them? Good chance for someone whos talented here to make some money.

[UNIQUEDOT]

This guy probably has the best prices you'll find on one.

http://theaffordableshotmaker.com/

[Lloyd Smale]

thanks pal i sent him an email to check on a price.

[375RUGER]

I started plans for one some time back. I made a cad drawing for the nozzles- a stainless steel bolt milled and drilled. Designed with 2 orfice sizes to reduce the amont of capital layout. I was going to collect the materials as I came across them and then make it when I had everything.

[Lloyd Smale]

I checked with http://theaffordableshotmaker.com/ and his unit is 250 bucks. Still out of my price range. Might be well worth it but i just dont have that kind of money to spend on one.

[UNIQUEDOT]

I checked with http://theaffordableshotmaker.com/ and his unit is 250 bucks. Still out of my price range. Might be well worth it but i just dont have that kind of money to spend on one.

His was the cheapest i could find, but i never followed through either. They used to advertise some type of shotmaking gadget in the shotgun news for $49 that used a small torch for the heat source. Don't remember much about the ad though.

[NSP64]

I bought a big stainless laddle, poked a tiny hole in the bottom with a nail, riveted an aluminum ramp at 45* angle under hole. Fill full of hot lead and use a propane torch to keep lead and ramp hot. Drop into antifreeze.
Don't get much cheaper.:redneck:

[geargnasher]

I bought a big stainless laddle, poked a tiny hole in the bottom with a nail, riveted an aluminum ramp at 45* angle under hole. Fill full of hot lead and use a propane torch to keep lead and ramp hot. Drop into antifreeze.
Don't get much cheaper.:redneck:

I did the exact same thing with a tuna can, worked purty good but MY is it slow. I was trying to figure out how to make it work with a hotplate and an 8x8" steel cake pan. The 45 degree ramp is key to success.

Gear

[44fanatic]

I bought a big stainless laddle, poked a tiny hole in the bottom with a nail, riveted an aluminum ramp at 45* angle under hole. Fill full of hot lead and use a propane torch to keep lead and ramp hot. Drop into antifreeze.
Don't get much cheaper.:redneck:

What size shot are you getting? I am hoping to make #4 shot one of these days.

I tried making shot using my lee pot with a slow drip into a 4" cut in half pipe heated by a propane torch that ended in complete failure.

[NSP64]

If you run it real hot, it will drop really small shot like a number 12 . As it cools down the droplets get bigger around #7 . distance to the ramp was only a half of an inch . so maybe use a bigger hole and a little more distance to the ramp you could make a number 4 .

[NZSarge]

Tuna can doesn't cut it, small quantity, not as good as Jeffs by far, need dedicated nozzles

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=154548

[JeffinNZ]

I would be perfectly happy to send mine to Lee Precision to duplicate if someone can get Lee to commit to production. There is a market for it.

[Lonegun1894]

If the price was in line with other Lee products, I would buy one in a heartbeat. I have made a couple attempts at making my own, and have one now that I am still trying to work the bugs out of that shows promise, but a couple other attempts of mine ranged from very slow, to inconsistent, to utter failures.

[leadman]

The Littleton uses a shorter ramp, probably 3/4". The edge on the ramp must be sharp and about 1/4" from the coolant to make round shot. I used soapstone that a welder uses to mark the steel with for cutting. This is what Littleton recommends and it did make good shot.

Magma has the Littleton instructions on their website so this may help those trying to make one.
I found the temperature had to be very consistent so I used a Lee #20 pot as a supply for my shotmaker.
The Magma instruction state that All Free and Clear laundry soap doesn't work, but I found that it worked very well until they removed some of the water from it and made it more concentrated. I added a very small amount of water to dilute it.
I had a 9 gallon metal tank designed with a removable basket that held #60 of shot. Had a valve on the side at the bottom so I could keep the level consistent.
There was another shotmaker that used a can set in a pan to catch the coolant when the shot displaced it. This should work just fine.

[mac1911]

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=93712 maybe this can give you some ideas. I never fired this up. It looks painfully slow. Feel it would waste a lot of fuel trying to run it.