How-to: Metal cannonballs of (nearly)any size
- jackssmirkingrevenge
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Try the backstop of your local airgun/black powder range.
hectmarr wrote:You have to make many weapons, because this field is long and short life
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How about buying it from a scrap dealer, probably around 10 bucks a kilo.
That's not toooooooo expensive.
That's not toooooooo expensive.
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If you want to play it dangerous, you can get a few pounds of lead out of car batteries. You'll need corrosion resistant gloves, goggles, and a resperator, preferrably.
DEAD ones... By the way.
DEAD ones... By the way.
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Go to a scrap yard, lead is only about $0.50USD/lb last time I got some. I was lucky enough to find a deposit from a caster (probably a reloader) in nice ~.5lb ingots that fit perfectly in my lead pot. If you are lucky, there will be some bullets there as well. I got some that are about .64 cal, they look to be for a muzzle loader. They melt nice and quick in a half full pot of molten lead, without freezing their surrounding. Great for when I am am casting a couple pounds of ball mill media. Hell, the bullets them selves would be good media...
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I want to make a bullet shaped too but remember that you dont need 2 pieces of plaster for thathi wrote:i was wondering, could i use cement as the mold and use solder as a projectile? or would the cement break and the solder be to soft?
EDIT- i think i would like to make a bullet shaped projectile, would that work too? i was going to make it for 1/2'' pipe
my father has that caps you put in front of your mouth and nose. would they help a lot ?
and am I helping if I say you maybe can make a mold for multiple balls ?
and I want to skip the wax part and use a marble since i have a marble barrel.
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