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| < 16ga. Ammunition & Reloading ~ Wad Mold , The Progress Report |
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Sat Jan 10, 2009 7:35 am
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In a hurry for a Meeting so I will post the Pic's and explain later as to what the Pic's are .
Regards Charles
This is a Pic of the A Plate with some of the over the powder cores installed.
Pic of the Slides .
Pic of the water jackets in the A Plate for cooling the over the powder Cores .
Over the Powder Cores ready to install .
Stamping Numbers in to the over the powder Cores .
Assembling the Shotcup and Over the Powder Cores .
The Slides set down on the Berilium wear plates in the mold .
A Plate fully assembled , note the over the powder cores installed .
Backside view of the A Plate .
Another shot of the Business side of the A Plate .
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Last edited by Charles Hammack on Mon Jan 12, 2009 6:36 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Sat Jan 10, 2009 8:10 am
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| Looks great Charles! I can't wait to start light loading all those Federal/Fiocchi/Chedditte hulls I've accumulated. I got your message last night. Try again, or I'll call you. |
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Sat Jan 10, 2009 8:13 am
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| This is no half baked effort. 6 figures unless it was made overseas. What company had this made? I hope you have a plastics company, that is kind or the wads are going to be expensive. |
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Sat Jan 10, 2009 8:42 am
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| dogchaser37 wrote: |
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This is no half baked effort. 6 figures unless it was made overseas. What company had this made? I hope you have a plastics company, that is kind or the wads are going to be expensive.
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Mark, try a search here on 16ga.com with "mold" in the search field. That should get you caught up on the action. |
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Sat Jan 10, 2009 9:06 am
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The reason I asked was, that I have experience with having steel shot wads made. Those molds are not as inticate as these as a steel shot wad has no compression section.
You Charles are nuts to do this, but you have me smiling. Keep up the good work. Hopefully Downrange will work with you to keep costs within reason. |
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Sat Jan 10, 2009 9:20 am
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| The molds look like they have had a few cycles on them. Have any wads been made and if so where might I buy them? |
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Sat Jan 10, 2009 7:45 pm
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| BTW I am glad that someone is making a wad that is truly suitable for 3/4 and 7/8 ounce loads. I hate fooling around with filler wads of any type. They really slow down the reloading process as well as making the reload more expensive and sometimes less consistent. |
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Mon Jan 12, 2009 7:27 pm
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Picture of the A Plate .
Pic of the Shotcup cores .
Pic of the parts laid out .
Pic of the Shotcup Cores installed .
Base going together .
Things coming together .
Regards Charles |
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Mon Jan 12, 2009 11:20 pm
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| This is all pretty incredible! For years everyone has whined (justifiably so) about lack of 16 gauge this or that. Here we have someone who is rolling up his sleeves and doing something about it. Keep on keeping on Charles! |
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Mon Jan 19, 2009 6:54 pm
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I head out to Downrange in the morning with the mold , I took the mold up on the 17th of Dec . and we run the Mold on the 18th it kicked out good parts but we had a time of it putting it together , ( I will tell about that later ) brought the mold back home to make some adjustments and now I am taking it back .
So folks We did make it by 2008 ran the production mold and now lets hope she is going and not coming back .
I will post pic's of what was changed when I get back .
OH and folks I will announce when the wads will be available to purchase so hang in there just a wee bit longer .
Regards Charles |
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Mon Jan 19, 2009 11:27 pm
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| thanks for doing this charles. i can`t wait to get some. bluerock |
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Tue Jan 20, 2009 8:15 am
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| Well done Thin Man. You made it happen just like you said you would. Well done. |
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Sat Jan 24, 2009 8:02 pm
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Just got back today , boy oh boy am I beat .
I loaded up the 90 year old Mom , the Yorkie , Wirehair Weeny dog , the two bird dogs and off we went , packed the cold weather gear , and the kitchen sink , forgot one thing the garmet bag with our outer wear clothing oh well at least we took a shower and could change underwear .
Tired so will not post much will do that later , just that the mold is in Downranges posession with Kevin working out the bugs and starting to get ready to run production .
This is a pic of the mold in the press an plumbed in for water .
Box of wads that I brought home that was used in the start up debugging session .
Different colors that we ran , with a AA UPLAND 16ga on the right for compairson.
Folks been a rough week for me an I am taking a few days off from 16ga stuff , will post more info when I get untired .
Regards Charles
Oh in case you all have not heard about it from the SHOT SHOW all these wads will be made in BIO DEGRADABLE MATERIAL . |
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Sat Jan 24, 2009 10:09 pm
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They look great!
Enjoy that rest! |
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Sat Jan 24, 2009 11:39 pm
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Amazing Charles! Simply amazing.
Excellent work. You deserve a break.
And thank you! |
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