10-16-2015, 11:36 PM
usmc1371: thanks, speeds and feeds are the hardest. I keep forgetting that aluminum likes higher speeds.
Richard: Thanks, I've watched a ton of videos over the last 10 years, only trouble is I don't get to use it so I don't retain a lot of it. Last year I got started on a project making swaging dies for .223. Using fired 22lr brass to make .223 bullets. I got everything made but the pointing die. Now I know why they charge $1200+ for a set of dies to do it. Haven't given up on the pointing die yet. My philosophy sometimes is why buy it, if I can make it for 3x the cost, and learn something doing it. The extra tooling comes in handy for other jobs down the road. I'm making a spider for the outboard and buying a set of ER-40 collets to hold the barrel for chambering. I've ordered and received the ER-40 collet holder, now I need to order a D1-4 backplate and machine it to mount it to.
Any machinist in west central Fl area?
Richard: Thanks, I've watched a ton of videos over the last 10 years, only trouble is I don't get to use it so I don't retain a lot of it. Last year I got started on a project making swaging dies for .223. Using fired 22lr brass to make .223 bullets. I got everything made but the pointing die. Now I know why they charge $1200+ for a set of dies to do it. Haven't given up on the pointing die yet. My philosophy sometimes is why buy it, if I can make it for 3x the cost, and learn something doing it. The extra tooling comes in handy for other jobs down the road. I'm making a spider for the outboard and buying a set of ER-40 collets to hold the barrel for chambering. I've ordered and received the ER-40 collet holder, now I need to order a D1-4 backplate and machine it to mount it to.
Any machinist in west central Fl area?