Ammunition & Hand Loading > Cartridge and Shotshell reloading
Copper Plating
DaveB:
What about a battery charger for a rechargeable camera or something of the sort. I see my Gateway camera puts out 5 volts at 2.6 amps. They should be cheap if not free to get.
unfy:
i have yet to see what happens when i try to plate ~100 bullets at once....
i do know that 3.3v 340ma was 'burning' the copper as it was plating.
using a resistor divider setup i got it to 1.6v but it wasn't enough current do any good (a D cell can put out 2amps if shorted).
lm317 is easy to wire up and can be done with alligator clips for the un-initiated... and i believe it can handle 1.5 amps no prob.... and available at radio shack.
i do have a $6 AA battery charger, but it does 2 batteries at a time, 2.8v 200ma.
The $20 charger prolly does better.... meh.
unfy:
untwisted all of the pairs
stripped ends off of all of them
then pulled / pushed the insulation off the rest of the wire.
my hands hurt :(
one advantage of doing the pull stripping method -- it un-twists / un-kinks all of the wire :D
unfy:
Lee Pro 4-20 pot is here, along with molds, sizing die, and lube.
have a 5 gallon bucket of wheel weights as well.
tonight will be fun!
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edit: forgot i didn't have a way of cleaning the lead to make ingots. can't do it in my kitchen for certain reasons. had to run to walmart and grab a coleman 10k btu camp stove and a couple bottles of camp propane.
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edit again: it better not ****ing snow tonight grrrrr
ghknives:
The variac is a type 221B manufactured by Staco Energy rated for 120 volts input and 2.5 amp output. I found it on Ebay for about $15. The rectifier is a radio shack part #261-1185. It's rated at 50v and the biggest they had at the time. Most of what I do is less than 50v but I have run it higher with no negative issues
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