Replacing a hollow base pin

[Brad]

Bob sent me a few moulds to play with. This one, an Ideal 358395 was missing the hollow base pin. Glen was very helpful in providing input on how the base needed to look. His included sending a few photos of his identical mould and rough measurements of the pin.
I was going to do this in a different manner but I wasn’t happy with it at all.

This is the pin to final size. The rough looking section on the base will be the part epoxied in the wood handle. Those grooves will help lock it in place. A will also drill that and the ha doe for a cross pin.

Waiting for the tap and die for attaching the retaining pin. If I had a welder I would cross drill for the pin and tack weld the back end. As is I plan to cross drill and tap the base pin and thread the end of the retaining pin. The retaining pin will then be filed to final fit.

 

[JWFilips]

Love to see how the mould looks for the true Lead Hollow base wad cutter ...such as a Spear
That cavity it quite large

 

[Gary]

Good lookin fix Brad.

 

[Brad]

This one needed a new retaining screw made.
I may go back and polish the head of the screw a bit more but it works. Even has the 5-10 thou of vertical movement Lyman pins always have.

 

[358156 hp]

Wayyy cool, Brad. It's casting season again.

 

[Brad]

I did take a file to the screw hole on the bottom of the 457122. There was a good burr around the hole and it needed to go away to let the new screw butt against the bottom of the block.

Tap and die for retaining pin are scheduled to arrive Tuesday.

 

[Ian]

You could drill through and drive the pin through leaving both ends proud and just planish the ends over. But you have tools on the way. Good work as always!

 

[Brad]

Got the 4-40 taps and die in last week. New job is making it difficult to find time but I snuck some in tonight.
I was going to use drill rod for the cross pin but decided I don’t need the frustration of threading it. Brass is much easier to work and the pin doesn’t really carry much load.

I threaded the pin clean thru and peened it over on the backside for retention.

I think it will work well. Now to drill the know and get it glued up.

 

[358156 hp]

Very nice!

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

Impressive as always!!

CW

 

[S Mac]

It lives again. Good show.

 

[Kevin Stenberg]

What type of wood is going on the handle?

 

[Brad]

Here is the knob Bob sent. Looks right.

 

[358156 hp]

What type of wood is going on the handle?

Ebay specials. I think I paid around $20.00 for 10 of them. Shipped. They were had to find at first, I wanted a specific profile for some reason.

 

[Brad]

He didn’t want to spool around with what I have on hand.

 

[Ian]

Yellow pine. Stuff will split if you even look at it sideways. Be super careful drilling the hole out.

 

[Brad]

Lucky for me a hole was already drilled in the knob. Looks like pine drawer pulls?

Got it all done. Hardest part in ways was holding the knob without crushing it.

No glue, just a cross pin.

 

[358156 hp]

Yellow pine. Stuff will split if you even look at it sideways. Be super careful drilling the hole out.

If they die, they die. It's so hard finding good knobs these days (bracing myself for the next flurry of posts)

 

[Brad]

I can find long knobs all day long but they aren’t like the old days.

That said, I started in on the last one. Let me know if this is what you are thinking Bob.

Gonna be a massive HP but I kinda like that for a handgun bullet.

 

[Ian]

Brad, you know you can turn wood on your lathe, right?