Ammunition & Hand Loading > Cartridge and Shotshell reloading
Copper Plating
unfy:
Had a crushing headache last night, so didn't touch it much.
A dollar store, a few grocery stores, walmart, walgreens.... and zero luck finding plastic duck-bill hair things. I did find some metal ones at walgreens though ::)
Grabbed some 1/2 inch pvc pipe to go with the other pvc pipe i've got... will just cut'em in half long ways and attach to clothes pins and try that out.
If everything works out, will just take pvc to work and use our scroll saw here to get a bunch cut down (assuming it's a PITA to do at home).
Tomorrow I'll talk to the guys at hawk bullets concerning their swage dies.
bkoenig:
I think you need a new avatar:
unfy:
Or perhaps one of these:
kinda... large:
unfy:
After falling asleep in cot at work this afternoon, woke up at 7PM and decided to head down to Moeller Arms and say hiya and pick up an NFOA shirt. Met Rod & Koz, both nice folks. If ya ever get some free time, I'd suggest stopping by to say hi as well.
Then went to walmart to pick up a variety of crafting / popsicle sticks. Also grabbed some plastic silverware to possibly chop up if i feel froggy. I'm sure they make plastic crafting sticks i can fiddle with if this ends up working out.
Tonight feeling the SCIENCE itch and not suffering from a nasty headache, lookin' good for experimentin' time!
unfy:
This was the first clothespin / crafting stick combo. It wasn't fully stable though due to the shape of the wire that holds the bullet... so a small change and...
Slightly fixes it, i really should still come up with a better way of forming the contact thicker metal thing wrapped at end of the crafting sticks... but... for now... whatever. I also went ahead and ran the tiny gauge conductivity wire to both sides (visible underneath a bit). The conducting wire is run along the top / slightly hidden from view. The tip i connected to the power supply can be seen sticking out the top.
Making sure to bend the wire a lil to be more of a C shape helped remove a lot of the accidental bullet-slip-out stuff.
Also visible in the upper left was a 1 hour plate test of the clip. There is some slight brown spots on it. These are where the tip of the craft sticks go beyond the the wire portion... which causes poor CuSO4 solution circulation (thus poor plating). Might be able to make the wire slightly better shaped to put more distance between wood and bullet.
The coat quality on the bullet itself is excellent (barring the problem mentioned above). The nose of the bullet has some of the 'crystalization' look that some earlier bullets had as well... so it's a thick coat.
* I'll simply break / cut off the bits of wood sticking beyond the bullet grabbing portion.
* Look into fiddling with the wire grabber portion to put more space between lead and wood.
* Connect a second clothespin so that the grabby hole portion of it is aligned in such a way that the bullets sit at the proper depth in the solution when i clip the second pin to the metal anode.
* Will obviously be running wire to the second clip for the anode connection etc.
All in all ? Much easier to work with. MUCH MUCH MUCH easier.
I'm highly encouraged.
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