Ammunition & Hand Loading > Cartridge and Shotshell reloading
Powder Coating Lead Bullets
bkoenig:
Looking good.
GreyGeek:
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Would those be of any real value at normal handgun ranges?
unfy:
Dangerous: lookin good! ya should build yourself the metal lazy susan that I did... makes spinning your plate of bullets much easier while powder coating and will only set ya back $7-$11.
Looking at the short lagbolts available, i wasn't that happy... so just picked up some 5/16th's steel rod instead (cutting that is gonna suck... may require dremel'ing it...). Also grabbed a couple sizes bigger than 3/32's drill bit to make the guide with down the middle of it (think i went with 3D nails, which are 3/32's in size according to drill gauge holey thing). A 2x2 as well. For getting sized hole for lead, will prolly just do 3/8's and do some work with a dremel (or rather, putting a dremel sanding disk in a lower speed portable drill) or by hand to make it bigger. Anyhoo, hopefully can get a hollow pointing jig made up soon.
For my failed jig, drilled out rivets in every other cross bar and dropped those away. Using 2" machine screws / stove bolts and such, should be able to attempt a wire-lube-groove thing.
Picked up some 17ga electric fence wire (stuff is dirt cheap heh... and they sell it by the quarter mile or more if ya want heh). Aluminum, might be a bit too thick to work with, I dunno. Will prolly end up using some spare copper wire I've got from the cat3 cut up I did for copper plating a couple years ago. If I can make the aluminum wire work, that'd be preferred though. I'll have to fiddle.
unfy:
Messed up my weekend after the jig fabrication :(.
Sat down tonight and decided to get more serious about bullet casting. That'll be in a different thread. Anyhoo, cast around 1000 bullets. Yay.
Doing some looking around my supplies, I came across some 20 gauge galvanized wire. I'm not sure exactly where I found it... walmart or hardware store. It's not got any insulation on it and I'm not entirely sure what purpose it's supposed to fill. Anyhoo, it's easier to work with and I'll be using it for the revised PC jig.
I'll be taking a hopefully short nap... then either going to work... or fiddling with PC jig stuff. We shall see.
bk09:
After seeing this thread I have spent my morning researching this and may be making an investment in a powder gun and air compressor... Now I will be able to shoot cast bullets out of my glock with no worries of excessive leading.
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