floodgate
11-05-2007, 07:33 PM
Guys:
A couple of weeks back, "kywoodwrkr" referred me to an eBay (I know, I know, but I LOVE subverting their "good intentions" re "bullet points!") "Buy it Now" ad for zinc washers. These turn out to be the correct Harvey / Lakeville Arms washers for the "Prot-X-Bore" cast and swaged boolits (for which - thanks to the good folks here - I have several moulds and one set of C-H .38/.357 SWC swaging dies), made on the original machinery, in .38/.357 (0.358"), .44 (0.429") and .45 ACP (0.452") at least, of which I got 1000 each. (Lakeville also made these in 0.355" for the 9mms and 0.454", for the older .45 Colts; these may be available, too). They look fine, and were priced about in the same range as commercial gas checks. If you need some of these, contact Andy Hill at <kimberlt@dandy.net>.
(If you DON'T need any, but are sitting on one of these moulds you don't need, lemme know; Lyman/Ideal zinc washer and half-jacket core moulds run in the #xxx500 - xxx525 mould number range, and Hensley & Gibbs in the #198 - #232 series - with some gaps in the latter series.)
Doug Elliott
A couple of weeks back, "kywoodwrkr" referred me to an eBay (I know, I know, but I LOVE subverting their "good intentions" re "bullet points!") "Buy it Now" ad for zinc washers. These turn out to be the correct Harvey / Lakeville Arms washers for the "Prot-X-Bore" cast and swaged boolits (for which - thanks to the good folks here - I have several moulds and one set of C-H .38/.357 SWC swaging dies), made on the original machinery, in .38/.357 (0.358"), .44 (0.429") and .45 ACP (0.452") at least, of which I got 1000 each. (Lakeville also made these in 0.355" for the 9mms and 0.454", for the older .45 Colts; these may be available, too). They look fine, and were priced about in the same range as commercial gas checks. If you need some of these, contact Andy Hill at <kimberlt@dandy.net>.
(If you DON'T need any, but are sitting on one of these moulds you don't need, lemme know; Lyman/Ideal zinc washer and half-jacket core moulds run in the #xxx500 - xxx525 mould number range, and Hensley & Gibbs in the #198 - #232 series - with some gaps in the latter series.)
Doug Elliott