Russians...keeping it simple
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This is really cool.
BattleRife
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The roundness of the dropped shot looks much better than what some people get with much fancier setups, I wonder what his trick is.
Good on him for figuring out how to make the rolled buckshot, but that looks like a lot of work to make it in any quantity.
Good on him for figuring out how to make the rolled buckshot, but that looks like a lot of work to make it in any quantity.
Wonder what his blood levels are at with all that dust kicking up
geotndtwine
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Iv made one of these at home making the drippers was the hard part. My shot turn out a little sad haha, i get little footballs or dish shapes, very few are round, and the shot group opens up rather fast. But i like the first video the fellow is using a rag as the drip lip. I will have to try that at home, i think that maybe the trick. With a damp fine weave fabric it may roll and cool at the same time instead of deforming in the cooling bath. And possible an extra long drip lip may allow extra cooling. I have couple pounds of drop tower shot made in the 60s some time that was given to me and it has 10% with tails, while this stuff looks nicer.
I made my drippers out of 3/8 brass bolts, kinda pricey $12 a bolt, and drilled through the tail of the bolt and used a pin drive to intersect the hole from one of the 6 side faces of the bolt. They work great only issue i had was the drip will slow if left unattended, but once the pot is tapped a couple times with a spoon she starts dripping like crazy again.
I made my drippers out of 3/8 brass bolts, kinda pricey $12 a bolt, and drilled through the tail of the bolt and used a pin drive to intersect the hole from one of the 6 side faces of the bolt. They work great only issue i had was the drip will slow if left unattended, but once the pot is tapped a couple times with a spoon she starts dripping like crazy again.
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Any Russians here? I wonder if it's just water he is dropping the shot in.
Nice looking shot from the lead wire.
The spinner/tumbler frame is covered in lead dust....not good .
Depends if he got if from one of the chernobyl lakes lol
Some of the other ones they actually use molasses
Lots of guys end up losing their minds, while trying to extrude lead wire, because they try to push a close fitting rod all the way through their extrusion cylinder.
That piston and flipping the cylinder end for end each pass, is an elegant solution! So is the use of the end cap with the die hole in it, as the seal on the end of the cylinder.
Have read more than a few reports from guys battling with the issue of pulling the piston out of a closed end cylinder. This system avoids all that.
easyrider604
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I love Russian technology. KISS works for me. I’ll say bye bye to my 00 mold after I try this, and get it to work.
Iirc, this is actually how they make lead shot and ball bearings.
Iirc, this is actually how they make lead shot and ball bearings.
geotndtwine, tell me more about the pin drive that puts a hole into the face of your bolt. This little hole has me stopped with my project because the tiny numbered drills that I bought would break no matter how carefully I tried to drill with them through a brass bolt. What size is the pin?
Peter
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Molten lead and open toe sandals with no socks. What could possibly go wrong?
Molten lead and open toe sandals with no socks. What could possibly go wrong?
At least he has footware...check this guy out holding stuff with his foot.
