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Post by nobearsyet on Jun 29, 2009 11:22:01 GMT -5
In John Taffin's 44 book he mentioned and showed a picture of a die he called the guillotine die for crimping heeled bullets. Anyone know where one could be had, or maybe Taffin could give a few torn apart pictures so that some of us might build our own for things such as the 44 American (now that I know what that old Smith shoots) and the 480 Achilles? BTW, anyone got ant 44 American load data?
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shorty500
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Post by shorty500 on Jun 29, 2009 16:09:54 GMT -5
AS A MACHINIST/TOOLMAKER THIS IS MY TAKE ON THE "YES, I COULD BUILD ONE FROM SCRATCH, ENGINEERING IT AS I WENT" BUT IT WOULDN'T BE CHEAP! KEEP IN MIND THAT THE ONLY INFO ON IT I HAVE IS WHAT YOU HAVE- THE PICTURE IN JT's BOOK!
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Post by nobearsyet on Jun 30, 2009 11:38:31 GMT -5
Maybe we'll get lucky and JT will chime in on this one, but from what I see it looks lke something that could be made with a piece of all thread 2 steel blocks 4 bolts and an old shellholder
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Post by blackhawk44 on Jul 6, 2009 20:42:22 GMT -5
Several years ago, Dave Scovill wrote in Handloader how he altered a Lee Factory die to crimp his .41 Colt loads. Might be worth a search or maybe an email to him.
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Post by nobearsyet on Jul 7, 2009 11:51:48 GMT -5
I read about that, but what I was thinking was the Guillotine die JT pictured in his 44 book could be made with a few different sets of jaws and serve for my 480 Achilles and 44 American crimping needs both, I ordered a callahan die blank from midway without a pilot hole drilled and I found a couple of 4140 steel blocks from when I worked at the machine shop and have an idea, when everything comes in I'll post a how to in this thread, but sorry, no pics, I still haven't bought a camera
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