Brown Bullet Master

Dpmsman

Dpmsman

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About a month ago I was at an auction that had quite a bit of casting and reloading equipment. I came home with a brown Bullet master casting machine. First thing I did was re-wire the plug to a 3 prong dryer type. Now when I bought this machine I was hoping that it was just going to take a little cleanup and presto I’d be casting bullets like mad. Not the case! I plugged it in and started testing it out. First the drive motor started to smoke. Not good!! So I took it off to be fixed. Then I checked the melting pot to see how well it worked. About 20 minutes in POW! The wires arched and burned off. About the time I got it rewired the motor was ready so that was put back in as well. The testing continued with the carousel making sure each mould lines up correctly. No go. Only 2 of the 8 mould blocks line up. So it was removed cleaned and worn parts replaced. Lastly one cherry switch was bad and need replacing. Now she runs like the proverbial swiss watch.

Does anyone have any history on these? I called Magma with some questions and they told me that it wasn’t made by them and to look up ballisti cast. One problem they are out of business. Does anyone have specs on the springs that hold the mold halves together? I have two sets but they are pretty well wore out. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
Spindrift

Spindrift

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Sorry, can’t answer your question, but a photo of this wonderous machine would be greatly appreciated!
 
Pistolero

Pistolero

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I would love to see a video of it running. No idea how this sort of thing works, never saw one.

Bill
 
Dpmsman

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Sorry for the bad pictures. I can’t get the good ones to load. It came with ballisti cast sprue cutters.
 
mattw

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Bet that would not be to tough to convert to a new pid for the themal controls. She does have some age on her, good to see it revived!
 
Dpmsman

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mattw said:
Bet that would not be to tough to convert to a new pid for the themal controls. She does have some age on her, good to see it revived!
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Manual says 1979. Not sure on PID. I’m not much of an electronic guru.
 
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Pistolero

Pistolero

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Why not put it up here? You can put it up on vimeo and then link it.
Usually videos are way to big to go via email, which is why vimeo and youtube are
out there.
If the file size is small, OK, I will give you my email. How big?

Bill
 
fiver

fiver

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balisticast bought the original outfit about jeez 6-8 years back, they strugged along for maybe 18 months and didn't put out but a few machines.

judging from the pics there you might be able to use magma parts for some things, the springs could be one as well as their mold blocks.
for a home run set up I'd run different blocks of about the same weight and let er rip for an afternoon.
 
Bret4207

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You might check with the guys like Chargar at the Antique Reloading Tools collectors assoc. I forget the correct name they use and I lost the link. In fact, it might not even have been Chargar that was in it. Do search and see if they can help.
 
Dpmsman

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fiver said:
balisticast bought the original outfit about jeez 6-8 years back, they strugged along for maybe 18 months and didn't put out but a few machines.

judging from the pics there you might be able to use magma parts for some things, the springs could be one as well as their mold blocks.
for a home run set up I'd run different blocks of about the same weight and let er rip for an afternoon.
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I’m currently using magma molds in it. Also I can adjust the pour time by adjusting how long the cherry switch contacts a cam off the drive. It’s a pretty simple system.
 
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Pistolero

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OK. Thanks for the effort. I have never seen any of these automated bullet casters, it
would be interesting.

Hope you get it all working and hope you got a heck of a deal on it.

Bill
 
Dpmsman

Dpmsman

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Well I tried to take another video and all hell broke loose! A roll pin that holds one of the mould half’s worked out dropping the half. Then the arm that held the mould half tipped out and jammed. This stuck the drive motor. For what ever reason it didn’t just shear the pin but locked the motor up tight! Good times!!:headbang:
 
Pistolero

Pistolero

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Sounds like a shear pin needs to be made out of aluminum instead of steel. Some knuckle heads
who have a problem which causes shearing aluminum (factory) shear pins a lot, rather than figuring
out the root cause problem, will "fix it" with a steel shear pin. Now they have a "never shear" pin.

Good luck.

Bill
 
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