Ammunition & Hand Loading > Cartridge and Shotshell reloading
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NE Bull:
Ant hill molds? (You tube it if you haven't seen it. )
unfy:
--- Quote from: NE Bull on December 28, 2013, 06:54:32 PM ---Ant hill molds? (You tube it if you haven't seen it. )
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Yeah I've seen those. Quite cool, but that's a lot of aluminum.
The furnace I'm building will melt 2-3 pints worth of liquid, not enough for the big ant hill mold things.
And as far as those pointing at firearms stuff... I don't think I'd trust something I made to not blow up in my own face. Don't get me wrong, AK parts or 1911 or something would be sweet... but... no.
As far as this forum - I was thinking more like custom parts for reloading press...
It's one of those things, also, where I'd need to start casting stuff to figure out exactly what uses I can find for it. But - casting your own metal stuff (other than lead) ? Cool to do >:D
shooter:
will you try to cast bullets out of the aluminum ?
unfy:
--- Quote from: shooter on December 28, 2013, 08:41:00 PM ---will you try to cast bullets out of the aluminum ?
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No.
First reason: there are some rules regarding what bullets can be made out of, how thick their jackets are, what kind of core they might have etc. Basically, federal hand gun ammo rules have a list of things that are considered 'anti personnel' and therefore illegal. No titanium cores, jackets comprising more than 25% of the weight, etc etc etc. I don't recall if aluminum is in that list or not.... but I don't think it's worth the annoyance of looking it up again :).
Now, rifle rounds are fine, though.
The other reasons for it would be that aluminum might tear up your barrel, dunno about friction issues concerning stove piping and pressure spikes and such.
If I had a cheap p.o.s. rifle I didn't care about, maybe.
And lastly - you really wanna go from a heavy metal like lead to a super light metal like aluminum ? Just look at the differences between total copper bullets vs jacketed or cast lead. Or steel shot vs lead shot.
I suppose I could make a shotgun slug.
unfy:
Grabbed some of these tonight:
http://www.menards.com/main/building-materials/roofing-soffits-gutters/roofing/roof-edge-tools-accessories/5-lb-tin-tab-roofing-disc/p-1934667-c-5817.htm
You can get them in 25lb bags online ($27/25lb with cheap/free ship to store?), or possibly at other stores. But even at $10/5lb - assuming they melt and are actually tin - that's a hell of a lot cheaper than lead free solder (at $25/lb).
I'll do some casting soon to see how it goes and report back.
I grabbed the Gingery Lathe book. So after furnace is belt, can possibly start to build something 'useful'. Online searches seem to suggest using some steel ways instead of trying to cast them yourself. The steel being a better bed material anyway (won't get chewed up by chips) and will be 'perfect' (unlike casts due to size).
This guy talks about a drill press -> mill conversion:
http://www.teeterconsulting.com/machine/Making_a_Vertical_Milling_Machine.html
There's a $50 four hour dvd to buy by someone else, but since it appears to work - but it's tempting. An immediate take away from the above page that seems interesting is filling the drill press vertical post with concrete to help limit deflection etc. Seems practical to do for every press anyway ?
Looking into thoughts on can crushing to help make better alloy - a 3" metal tube seems to be a decent start as a compression body. I know they make 3" fence posts, but can't seem to find one. Which is prolly okay - a hand fence post hammer is $18 and i think has a workable inner diameter. From there it's a matter of a ram (either human powered or a jack or something).
Not applicable for me due to position of house and such, but my brother in TN is building a 'solar soda can heater'. Seems like a pretty easy and practical project.
http://hackedgadgets.com/2011/11/16/solar-pop-can-heater-system-build-roundup/
The heat folks claim to get out of these things seems like it'd definitely take a chunk out of a heating bill, and thrown in a back yard or side of a shop or something it doesn't really throw off 'visual appeal'.
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