- Location
- Eastern Ont.
What about the rolls of alluminium that is sold in Can Tire for doing body work.
Anyone know what gauge that is?
Anyone know what gauge that is?
gas checks, if i make them any taker's?
- Thread starter mooseman1
- Start date
On any given day it could change. Want to know for sure, take tools in and measure the stuff that is in stock.
FWIW, I have been (really) slowly working on a set of dies for my loading press to make checks from aluminum or brass shim stock or flashing. I'm not cheap enough to #### around with pop cans at this stage in the game.
Anyone considering getting into the biz should make a few thousand first, then decide if the payback is gonna be worth the effort. I'm having fun making mine, for me. Folks that want my time to be used for them, are not willing to pay my rates!
Seriously. How long to shoot a thousand rounds downrange (the number of checks in a box of commercial checks)? Gotta buy material. Gotta have the right thickness material or the checks don't fit the base correctly. Gotta be crazy to want to spend your life doing this for folks that want you to sell them for less than the price of commercial checks.
Buy the check maker, play with it, and see if you really think your life is better spent doing this for other folks or if you are better off just ordering a few boxes of commercial checks.
I got a pretty good idea what I'd do!
Cheers
Trev
FWIW, I have been (really) slowly working on a set of dies for my loading press to make checks from aluminum or brass shim stock or flashing. I'm not cheap enough to #### around with pop cans at this stage in the game.
Anyone considering getting into the biz should make a few thousand first, then decide if the payback is gonna be worth the effort. I'm having fun making mine, for me. Folks that want my time to be used for them, are not willing to pay my rates!
Seriously. How long to shoot a thousand rounds downrange (the number of checks in a box of commercial checks)? Gotta buy material. Gotta have the right thickness material or the checks don't fit the base correctly. Gotta be crazy to want to spend your life doing this for folks that want you to sell them for less than the price of commercial checks.Buy the check maker, play with it, and see if you really think your life is better spent doing this for other folks or if you are better off just ordering a few boxes of commercial checks.
I got a pretty good idea what I'd do!
Cheers
Trev
FWIW, I post on Castboolits under the same moniker, and my gas check cutting punch is here http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=45542&page=3
The Freechex tool is a device of torment and misery, IMO. You could not convince me ever, that sitting swinging a hammer that many times for a single gas check was a good idea, when there is a perfectly suitable tool in just about every reloader's selection on hand, with which to accomplish the same with almost zero effort. That tool being a reloading press!
Cheers
Trev
The Freechex tool is a device of torment and misery, IMO. You could not convince me ever, that sitting swinging a hammer that many times for a single gas check was a good idea, when there is a perfectly suitable tool in just about every reloader's selection on hand, with which to accomplish the same with almost zero effort. That tool being a reloading press!
Cheers
Trev
