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Powder Coating Lead Bullets
bkoenig:
I actually found a link a while back on how to convert a mold with a drill press. I'll try to look it up tonight.
I plan to make a tool that I can chuck up in my lathe or drill press which will cut a HP cavity in my subsonic blackout bullets.
unfy:
--- Quote from: bkoenig on April 12, 2013, 11:54:08 AM ---I actually found a link a while back on how to convert a mold with a drill press. I'll try to look it up tonight.
I plan to make a tool that I can chuck up in my lathe or drill press which will cut a HP cavity in my subsonic blackout bullets.
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CB forum seems to have hints / mentions / instructions / etc.
They use the removable plug on opposite end of the cavity... a concept i'm not keen on at all.
The molds that have pins along the sides of the block that push the hollow pointing studs away from the blocks would be about the only thing i'd have an interest in personally ;). IE: you don't keep inserting/removing a spindle/plug by hand.
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Actually... that kind of thing i *might* be able to do.
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we do have a metal lathe and mill at work, but with how the employee of that area beats the **** out of the tools and doesn't clean ****... i'm not going anywhere near those tools. i'd clean everything but he'd just **** it all up again. the mill i *might* be able to get workable.. i dunno. there's another drill press that's beefier and might be more true and deflect less.... i'll have to eyeball it all... but needless to say i'm not happy with the shop section at work due to 'that one guy' ...
bkoenig:
Now that's an interesting way of doing it. The DIY ones I have seen all had the removable pin.
GreyGeek:
Am I right in assuming that the only place the powder really needs to be is where the bullet makes contact with the lands in the barrel?
bkoenig:
Ok, now that I'm viewing this on a HD screen, that is one rusty, nasty looking mold.
--- Quote from: GreyGeek on April 12, 2013, 02:24:29 PM ---Am I right in assuming that the only place the powder really needs to be is where the bullet makes contact with the lands in the barrel?
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I would say both the lands and grooves, so anywhere it makes contact with the barrel. Leaving the base uncoated might lead to a little vaporization and lead deposits, but from what I've read a lot of guys do just fine with it set that way. I think the bearing surface is a much bigger contributor to leading.
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