Great content. The 400 should be the views you have in the first hour. You have mad skills and a great sense of humor.
@RealDeanWinchester
3 жыл бұрын
We live in an unjust world toad. I think once Joe Biden realizes how marginalized I am he might force schools to teach critical bullet mold theory, that might give me the views I deserve.
@ToadleyBrowne
3 жыл бұрын
@@RealDeanWinchester Critical Bullet mold theory:) It's 6:00 A.M. and you have me laughing already. Have a good day.
@missingthe80s58
2 жыл бұрын
Had similar issues as yours. I figured it was surface area cooling acting like a heat sink. My next 2 molds will be only as big as I need to fit in the sprue plate screws. I also screwed up the venting by making them too deep and got a little flashing that I cannot afford to have, it's a 1,000 yard target bullet and nothing but absolutely perfect will suffice. I picked up a fly cutter set and I'll be modifying the cutters to make a thin vertical V cut rather than the angle it is currently set to cut. I learned a valuable lesson too. Buy 12L14 and 0-1 and never ever look back. I'm making a 540gr paper patched slick in a 2 diameter design with a larger diameter driving band at the base to properly crimp into my fire formed 45-90 brass. Something the old farts who shoot Sharps rifles never tell you when they say try paper patched bullets is, the fucking patched bullets won't crimp in place because the reloading tools they use are all custom and their custom rifles have tight chambers not factory chambers. The fix for us poor folk with regular off the shelf factory rifles is a 2 diameter bullet design that is a bit hard to find. Harder still one specific to a rifle. So I'm building my own. I did get some good bullets from test mold 1. I can do better and mold 2 fixes flashing. My second design is a massive grease groove .452 for my .45 Colt loads. It's a typical round nose flat point but will have a huge groove that will slightly compress from firing (black powder) to extrude the grease out and onto the barrel. This extrusion thing was a thing the old bullets did in the 1880's. They took advantage of hydraulic force to move the grease to where it belongs, out of the groove and onto the barrel. Smart dudes those old timers. A few companies make renditions of the old design but they're either too long nosed, too heavy or too large in diameter because they're trying to make a one size fits all for .45 Colt and .45-70 and it just isn't ideal. So I'm making my own. That lesson! Tried making a lube sizer die for my Lyman 45 lube sizer. Thought I'd be slick and use 1" hardware store round. Nope, trashed 2 25/64" bits trying to drill it. I hit some sort of hard spot. I annealed it after trashing the first bit and it was still so hard the second bit was eaten before I could stop it. So I ordered 3 feet of 3/4" cold finished 12L14 to make a dozen sizing dies. Screw $50 a pop. I'll make $500 worth of them for $50. Also trashed the saw blade, I went back and looked after cutting off the piece of round and sure enough, my blade was gone. Cost me 2 bits and a new sawzall blade.
@RealDeanWinchester
2 жыл бұрын
Good to know i wasnt the only one with that thought. Another problem that came about as a result of compensating with hotter lead is the alignment pins moving. I was only using about 0.0005 to 0.001", the aluminum expanded more than the steel pins and they moved. I now make them 0.0015" interference fit. I'll use whatever i have around for the pins, A36, 1018, ? My aluminum molds were made with 6061, i have read that 2024 is better due to less warping maybe? Sprue plates i make from 3/16 hardware store steel, 1011 i believe. I flatten it with a fly cutter which seems to work well. I've made one sizing die, at the time there were none available in 0.312" commercially. I used a 7/8-14 grade 8 bolt from Fastenal, pretty cheap, a few dollars each. The molds i have made so far all produce bullets that shoot as well as factory made jacketed bullets, in the guns i shoot them in. I'd like to find someone with a better rifle to test them in, but not many people use .312 or 9mm in a "good" rifle. My next mold is being made from brass. I may have cut the vent lines too deep on it also, we'll see i guess 😂. I have some videos of that too. For me this whole home made bullet mold thing started because i wanted to play with 200+ grain subsonic loads in an AK-47. Now i am curious to see just how fast a powder coated bullet of the proper alloy can go, without accuracy or fouling issues. I suspect much of what we have been taught about cast bullet velocity isn't true. There again, we'll see, 😂.
@madaxe79
2 жыл бұрын
Bullshit. there is no way you’re casting a long range bullet...
@missingthe80s58
2 жыл бұрын
@@madaxe79 Oh it's worse, I cast the lead around laser seekers and nano servos that control the pop out fins/blades. That's why my single shot rifles have laser sights.
@RealDeanWinchester
2 жыл бұрын
@@madaxe79 it is more likely that you are full of shit. Probably between your ears.
@bigrod0069
5 ай бұрын
Good stuff!
@RealDeanWinchester
5 ай бұрын
It makes great bullets. I made a 30 cal mold from brass too. That was during the pandemic when everything gun related was sold out.
@bigrod0069
5 ай бұрын
@@RealDeanWinchesterThat's awesome, I think I'm gonna give it a try and see how it goes.
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