We've had Star Link for about 18 months, basically the only real internet available where I am (south West Western Australia..) I was one of the first in my area, not cheap but with no real...
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Forum: Our Town
We've had Star Link for about 18 months, basically the only real internet available where I am (south West Western Australia..) I was one of the first in my area, not cheap but with no real...
Forum: Gas Checks
The ones I have used are all aluminium, they are the ones from Italy so I guess genuine....
cheers
Redd
Forum: Gas Checks
Currently I don't make any GC but looking around for suitable thickness I noticed the bulk olive oil containers (4lt or about a gallon) are a lot thicker than any beverage can I have found so far (I...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I made one from an old treadmill several years ago. originally I had a PVC barrel but was too small for the amount of brass I was trying to clean, not sure if the photo will attach or not but I built...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
In the past, when I was loading bulk pistol on a progressive (with carbide dies) I found if I took an ice cream container and dumped the brass (and nickel) cases in along with a couple of cubes of...
Forum: Swaging
Thanks for all the input, given me a few things to consider. The biggest one is its quite a bulk lot (about 5000 projectiles in total) and so a few $$$ would be invested so I just have to weigh up...
Forum: Swaging
I don't have actual pictures but I have seen some examples, sort of looks like the very tip was twisted a little, like aluminium foil. The guy was a reasonable scale bullet manufacturer about 20...
Forum: Swaging
Hi all, I'm not a swager (at the moment..) but I have found some copper jacketed swaged seconds with some folded tips, they are a good price, just wondering if the folds on the tip will greatly...
Forum: Rimfire Area
the only pump I had was a Rem 572, it shot fairly well. At the time I was playing with all sorts of rimfire ammo and measuring/weighing etc, the best groups I got with the pump was some cheap...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I bought one off ebay years ago and it's still going strong, from reading this thread and a couple of others on other sites some one could do very well 3D printing some spares or CNCing the metal...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
I meant to say I am an armchair caster at the moment...:killingpc
still trying to learn all I can before I am in a position to start melting lead
Although it might be a good handle for someone...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
ok armchair caster (still learning, reading etc) by using Cu are you able to reduce the amount of zinc in an alloy?? just thinking about the number of people who have got too much zinc in a blend...
Forum: Swaging
Yeah BT my thoughts exactly, I guess a rough way to figure out what size GC would be to weigh a jacket and a gas check and find something close, like I said I'm looking for a shorter jacket to run...
Forum: Swaging
Ok random thought of the day....
I love shooting g my hornet and like the idea of using rimfire shells to make my own bullets but from what I gather without trimming the cases I'm looking at about...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Where I was working at one stage we made aluminium fishing gauges and had to stamp the size in them, the boss bought a couple of sets of the cheap number/letter punch sets (harbour freight style) and...
Forum: Our Town
Hi All
I have recently discovered podcasts and Ebooks, as I do a lot of flying and spend a plenty of time on buses to and from work sites, I have listened to quite a few and am now on the hunt (no...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I personally don't think you will do any harm in carefull opening it up, as others have said you are well out of warranty period anyway. I opened mine up years ago as the buzzer was driving me mad,...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I used to use a Lyman trimmer but have recently purchased a Trimm-It (I think that's it) very similar to the WFT 11 has inter-changeable inserts, comes with 223 & 308 family inserts just over $100...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
When I use my Lyman trimmer I can get away using 0000 steel wool and it leaves a nice rounded edge inside and out, lately I have been playing with a Trim-It power type trimmer, I'm still working out...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I have a Lyman deburing double ended tool, complete with busted tine...
Lately I have been using an idea from Varmit Al's web site. I use a nut driver socket stuffed with steel wool, fitted in a...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I lube my pistol cases by dropping them in an ice cream container with 2 cubes of foam (about 2" per side) that has had Balistol poured on them so that they are damp but not dripping (hope this makes...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Kayak,
You know you want the tig... I made a tumbler drive out of an old treadmill and then fabbed up a barrel out of stainless steel sheet so needed the Tig welder :-) the barrel holds 20ltr of...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Ok my take on this 'problem' :)
I run a Hornady LnL, I load rifle and pistol, 9mm, 357mag, 22 hornet,204,223,243 & 308 ignoring the rifles for the moment, I deprim and s/s clean my brass, then I...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I had a similar problem, ended up using some 4"x4"x1/8" square box steel tube used as a post. Made a base plate that was bolted into the concrete floor and a top plate that the press was bolted to, I...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
I made my own from an old tread mill also. I have some of the treadmill rubber glued to the shafts and have a strip of rubber glued to the drum at each end that lines up with the shaft rubber (hope...
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |