Making a custom mold advise needed
I have half of this figured out. My idea is for a simple to produce mold for testing different shapes and weights of pellet. My tools are limited to mostly hand tools however a surprising lot can be accomplished given time, trial and error, and lots of stopping for measurements. I’m not making them by the hundred for target practice or anything. My plan is to trial and error my way through different concepts and hone craftsmanship in the process.
I can polish the sides of two pieces of aluminum bar stock to near mirror and grind the top flat so they match seamlessly. Instead of hinging the mold I will hold the two halves together with pins and clamps. I could drill it out easily enough and counter sinking it will make a simple conical skirt. I won’t attempt hollowing the skirt at first and could try gas checks or maybe paper patch. Where I am stuck is creating the head and gas checks. For the head of the pellet I have considered putting a metal sleeve down into the mold to protect it with the bit chucked into a Dremel suspended in a crummy drill press like device. Then rotate the entire mold along the bench as the burr head cuts and use the sleeve as a sort of fence to limit it’s cutting depth. Measure, adjust, replace with different size sleeve, repeat until desired result. A modified wire nail could be used similarly to cut gas checks into aluminum. I would be glad to hear any improvements to this.
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Wow I always though of cats as just the useless cocky thing that train their owner to scoop their shit up, feed them, tend to them whenever they do that brushing against you thing, toys, etc. but you take it to a whole other level RC. One thing to add to your list, if your neighbor has a cat you will never be able to peacefully have a garden because they think you tilled that soil just to make them a giant litter box complete with seedlings to dig up, chew, and piss acidity into the soil. They sneak in at night like ninjas. You can’t fence them out and they’re too persistent to be chased out.
Oh great you hijacked it and I’m helping with getaway directions.
Alright enough talk about you pussies being scared of kitty cats.
Back to the topic at hand.
RC,
So you’ve actually shot more elk than cats. 😀 You really don’t mind the cute little kitties that much after all! 😆 😆
almost as scary as a kitten
found these just for you WOK
You poor man. Those mean kitties how dare they
Forgive me for hijacking your thread.
Wok,
Ah yes, cats, did you know that I dislike them also?
Not because of the facts you illustrated, but because, they bury their shit with their paws and then get on counters and spread their feces all over food preparation surfaces, spreading their fithy discarded fur and dander throughout the filthy house of their owners, and if you have more than one cat, in your house one or both will shit and piss anywhere but that fucking stinking box called a litter box.
Let me stay in your house for a month and shit in a box the size of a king bed and bury it with my hands that I do not wash and prepare your food and then tell me how clean “kitty is”.
Cunts, whether men or women, will deny this, but they are fucking liars or idiots, for all cats do this.
If outside, they will denude the area of all living wild fowl and then shit and piss on your door step.
They are fowl discusting things that are loved by sick lonely women and latent homosexual men.
Did I miss anything, well for sure not the last of the fifty fucking ones I shot at, well actually 49 the Tundra got one and only had to leave the pavement about a foot.
Good show Riverside.
Retirement for me, once I get to the pants shitting, slobering state, will be a walled compound in the Ph where I set next to a window overlooking a dish of cat food with a Armscorp PCP.
Regards,
Roachcreek
I bet you keep that target next your your targets of the Taliban, Zombies and other things that you fear
I’ve looked up the equation I was referring to and it is called the Greenhill equation. T = 3.5 * V^0.5 * D^2 / L (this version accounts for muzzle velocity)
One of a thousand sites about it: http://kwk.us/twist.html
Since this is a stock AF Condor and I have not tested it to it’s extremes yet I’ll just play around with 55fpe for now. At that energy it could theoretically toss a maximum of 27.45gr of lead at 950fps. Feel free to play around with these numbers if you’re bored out there, I’m not going to use it for a couple days.
I’ll leave a couple pictures I took. The first picture is a couple projectiles I laid out. The lower right is a JSB which has so far been my rifles favorite and what I’ll probably use as a base example. Notice how simple and cylindrical it’s design is. Anybody have other good/bad examples that apply to this?
The lower left is a EunJin which as expected performed very poorly. Center is the closest firearm counterpart I have to the JSB and upper right is a good ol .58 limb lopper. Upper left aren’t really related to what I’m doing but are cool methods to make a more aerodynamic projectile but keep the weight out of the nose with plastic or air/steel.
It was suggested that I suspend a cherry overhead and close the mold onto it with a vice. That’s what the second pic is about. Closing both sides at once is out of the question but I suppose closing one side onto the bit until it is cut exactly half way and then repeat with the other half, then manually match them and set the pins.
Yeah I know I know you cant make things with this, until I get out of this apartment and into a garage (which will certainly be years) it’s caveman technology or sit around reading all day.
a proper target
Yes we understand just how scared you must have been.
we called it Catacide growing up when the little rabid shits would act all indifferent to my 24″ heavy barreled AR smoking 40 odd grain custom Corbin hollow points at better than 3800 FPS
did you know a cat can run an easy 100 feet with nothing more than the spinal cord attaching the front and rear quarters?
Fear them hell WOK, I admire their raw ability to survive mortal wounds that would drop anything else like a sack of bricks.
learned to aim just a might high on the Torso so the hydrostatic explosion on impact cleanly blew them apart into two bloody chunks
that sometimes resulted in a brief episode of “Gyro Kitty” with the front end spinning around in a circle like the proverbial Chicken with its head cut off 😉
never annealed shit, I loved how they exploded crap, particularly cat sized vermin, {sorry WOK & TRON…I know you two are Cat fairies}
You kill them because you fear them. They are little monsters with claws and fangs that do not give a shit about you and your fear takes advantage of their size.
Don’t be afraid of the pussy….you pussy
😀
RC:
never annealed shit, I loved how they exploded crap, particularly cat sized vermin, {sorry WOK & TRON…I know you two are Cat fairies}
never had any trouble with my set and the slugs were better than any I could commercially purchase for my deviant desires…
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