Ammunition & Hand Loading > Cartridge and Shotshell reloading
Copper Plating
unfy:
Been a few forums talking about it. There's a few youtube videos about different setups. I figured I'd look into it as well.
Shopping this weekend:
$5 - Tub to hold solution
$11 - Zepp root killer (99% copper sulfate pentahydrate)
$12 - 20 feet of 1/4" copper tubing
$6 - acetone
$55 - 13v 3amp dc power supply from radio shack (jameco would have it cheaper but i'm impatient)
$5 - car bulb holder
$5 - car bulbs
$1 - distilled water
$?? - pipe cutter
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Stuff I already have: aligator clips, wire, etc.
I'll be setting things up tonight... will take pictures eventually.
I couldn't really find a copper plate to act as a copper donor, so i'll be hammering out the copper tubing to see if that can work. There are the 1-2" end caps that might be able to be hammered flat.. but... whatever, tubing will work i hope.
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Now for the silliness: I don't have any casting supplies yet (other than welders gloves). I have some lead from missouri bullet company that'll i'll try it out on, but also don't have sizing dies. Soooo right now it's just "can i electroplate".
Lead pot and other supplies will be coming shortly.
Bigtony:
Trying to make copper plated bullets or metal jacketed? Sounds like a lot of work but a fun experiment. Let us know how it goes.
unfy:
Jacket would be a swaging setup and stuff. I've seen some hacks using rifle resizing dies to form ogives but... i'd prolly insist on doing the insanely expensive ch4d dies or something.
No, this is just to plate the lead to eliminate leading in the barrel. Guess I'm tired of tweaking charge amounts depending on what kind of lead I'm loading. And full power pistol loads would be kinda nice as well for plinking with my carry weapon (rather than the reduced loads to stop leading)...
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A lot work, it shouldn't be too much. I'm about to take a file to the plastic tub right now to hold the copper in place easily. Bullets themselves should just be wrapping thin wire around the bullet lube channels and hanging like xmas ornaments. Dunno about density / time it'll take for each batch.... depends i guess.
And most people size their cast bullets anyway.. so....
NE Bull:
Brother and I run copper plated bullets for most of our stuff (only we buy them ready-to-load). They seem to work well.
unfy:
--- Quote from: NE Bull on December 11, 2011, 06:36:10 PM ---Brother and I run copper plated bullets for most of our stuff (only we buy them ready-to-load). They seem to work well.
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For plinking, I don't mind berry's cheap plated bullets. Still over twice the cost of bought-lead bullets tho. Soooo am looking into plating them myself.
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