handirifle
Veteran Member
It's actually a silver solder question.
I am in the very slow process of making some bullet forming dies, to make lead free bullets for a rifle that no one makes lead free bullets for. I cannot afford to buy the professionally made press and dies that would make this an easy proposition, so I am learning as I go. One of the ideas I have come up with is a partitioned design, with the partition silver soldered in place. This is a piece of copper tubing, approx one inch long, and I am thinking of soldering either a solid copper plug, or an inverted copper "cup" inside the tubing.
My question to you guys, is do you think when fired this partitioned jacket would hold together? I do not think a soft soldered one would at all, but wasn't sure if the silver solder, or silfos would fare much better.
What do you guys think? I know this is WAY out the ordinary, but hey, I am reinventing the wheel here. Mainly cause there's no ready made wheels available for this thing.
I am in the very slow process of making some bullet forming dies, to make lead free bullets for a rifle that no one makes lead free bullets for. I cannot afford to buy the professionally made press and dies that would make this an easy proposition, so I am learning as I go. One of the ideas I have come up with is a partitioned design, with the partition silver soldered in place. This is a piece of copper tubing, approx one inch long, and I am thinking of soldering either a solid copper plug, or an inverted copper "cup" inside the tubing.
My question to you guys, is do you think when fired this partitioned jacket would hold together? I do not think a soft soldered one would at all, but wasn't sure if the silver solder, or silfos would fare much better.
What do you guys think? I know this is WAY out the ordinary, but hey, I am reinventing the wheel here. Mainly cause there's no ready made wheels available for this thing.