Casting Silver Bullets

[Alpha1]

Do you want me to see if I can come up with some thing you can make a mould from. I managed to melt a purpose built aluminium heating coil on a inlet to one of our reactors it was not a pretty sight. It got a few bums twitching. Not one of my better moments.
We have all sorts of high temperature stuff we have stuff that routinely runs any were between 150c to 480c we may have some thing that will work.

[TomH]

In the context of Ovenpaa and Christel living in a disused chapel this thread worries me.

But if they are trying to mirror a Hammer House of Horror plot, they have no chance. A virgin in Lincolnshire?

[Whizzbang]

A virgin in Lincolnshire?

Don't be so sure- those sheep can run pretty quickly.

(I should know... )

[Alpha1]

[quoteTomH wrote:

A virgin in Lincolnshire?


Don't be so sure- those sheep can run pretty quickly.

(I should know... )][/quote]

To much information.

[ovenpaa]

You could try casting using the lost wax method. Cast a couple of bullets in hard wax, cover them in fireclay but make a casting channel out the same wax, allow fireclay to dry and harden. Then melt the wax out in an oven and you now have a mould to cast into. To release the bullet just break the mould.


Short version; google Lost wax casting.

I have a feeling this is probably going to be the easiest method for making a handful. I have some casting wax here so I could cast the wax into vaguely bullet shaped forms, machine them to size plus a few thou, cast the bullets and then size the bullets to suit our needs.

[dromia]

What is wrong with just using a commercial iron mould?

Idea/Lyman second hand single cavity moulds go very cheaply on ebay I am told.

Even new they don't break the bank.

[Christel]

In the context of Ovenpaa and Christel living in a disused chapel this thread worries me.

[ovenpaa]

What is wrong with just using a commercial iron mould?

Idea/Lyman second hand single cavity moulds go very cheaply on ebay I am told.

Even new they don't break the bank.

I was looking a couple of days ago and could only find light metal ones. I will take another look as it would certainly make life easier.

[dromia]

What calibre and sort of bullet are you looking for?

I could send down a mould for you to use I have lots of old Ideal single cavity moulds.

[saddler]

I seem to remember several back there were a couple of silversmiths in the same craft courtyard as my workshop.

They melted down some scrap silver for me & I gave them one of Ideal "Keith" molds....so I've got a 454424 in silver, somewhere...
Steel molds = no problem