Thread: Vacuum&pressure pot experiments

Originally Posted by MikeB52

To date, the rifling of the acrylic has been done prior to casting. Came about as a requirement since the bullet would either get sucked into the brass, or displaced from the brass under vacuum and pressure curing. So the transparent rod filled the brass, and held the slug evenly for the cure. Spiraling it was to simulate the round leaving the bullet.

I think that casting an assembled cartridge could easily be solved by drilling a vent hole using the hollow point as a pilot hole. Or for a spire point you could first assemble it with a wide expanded neck and fill it with epoxy before casting. Or turn the base of the bullet smaller for a slip fit.

If we're just throwing ideas out... what if you removed the brass casing and reversed the direction of the bullet in the handle. Then you could make the blooming knot look like the impact from the round entering the handle.

Originally Posted by TwistedOak

If we're just throwing ideas out... what if you removed the brass casing and reversed the direction of the bullet in the handle. Then you could make the blooming knot look like the impact from the round entering the handle.

I like this idea.

Mike wrote in an earlier post that this thread is about experimentation.

He seems open to ideas and I am not going to compete with him so I have no care if he uses an idea of mine.

I can learn a lot from his ideas.

If you throw an idea out and no one cares what is the worst that will happen?

Thanks for the ideas for sure guys. I am open to all ideas good, bad, and somewhere in between. It's how we learn. Creativity is a neat kinda life form I think. It grows and sprouts off other things all the time.
HP sauce for example, was created as a linament as I understand and didn't work. Some was left forgotten in its barrel for a long time and some one opened it up and voila, best steak sauce ever was discovered..

Reversing the bullet path, another very neat idea, thanks..
Think I need to order a boat load more knots for some of these ideas..

Originally Posted by MikeB52

Thanks for the ideas for sure guys. I am open to all ideas good, bad, and somewhere in between. It's how we learn. Creativity is a neat kinda life form I think. It grows and sprouts off other things all the time.
HP sauce for example, was created as a linament as I understand and didn't work. Some was left forgotten in its barrel for a long time and some one opened it up and voila, best steak sauce ever was discovered..

Reversing the bullet path, another very neat idea, thanks..
Think I need to order a boat load more knots for some of these ideas..

"Creativity is a neat kinda life form I think"

If I could figure out how to get this quote in my signature line I would do it.

Originally Posted by 32t

"Creativity is a neat kinda life form I think"

If I could figure out how to get this quote in my signature line I would do it.

Go to "settings" at the top right of the page. Then you'll see a menu on the left of the screen you go to. About 1/2 way down "edit your signature line" hit that link and there you go

trying this......

there ya go

Am I saying that I am Mike though......

Nope, looks to me like a quote there Tim