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Building Tips and technical articles. => Building techniques => Topic started by: Perry Rose on April 08, 2020, 08:28:49 AM
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I bought a Pietta copy of the 1858 Remington New Army revolver several years ago. The other day I ordered a conversion cylinder for it in .45 long colt. Now I have a bunch of Speer .451 round ball ammo. I put one ball in a vise and squished it down to 5/32 thick. Will make a good tip weight at 0.3 ounces each. Less when I drill a hole for the bolt. The diameter expands to .700.
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1/4" washers fit nicely into a 1" square box, and are much more convenient. If you have the room, you don't need the heaviest metal around.
I'd save the ball ammo for remelting, or give it to a friend who needs some lead.
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Every so often, I dig out spent .22 slugs out of the dirt backstop in my front yard. The weight adds up quickly. I have melted them down, and I have used pieces for wingtip weight.
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I use a round tube with a threaded plug. I use chunks of 1/4" steel, cut to lengths for various weights. When I'm home, I'll post a picture. Very clean and works well.
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I have a roll of 1/4 lead wire. I cut off the needed length and then pound it flat with a hammer.
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I have a roll of 1/4 lead wire. I cut off the needed length and then pound it flat with a hammer.
Where would someone find something like that? I would like to find it in flat bars or like a tape to cut into lengths for this kind of stuff and balance weight for free flight stuff. The hobby shop I was working part tie at used to carry sheet lead in small packages in the model railroad section for weighting down rail cars and such. A 1/4" round material could be pounded flat also.
Type at you later,
Dan McEntee
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Dan,
You can get the flat bar lead from an auto body supply shop they use it for large fill jobs. The tape style you can get a golf shops they us it to balance golf clubs.
Perry,
If you can find a length of tubing that the balls fit in without banging around you could use that with the load end pointing forward mounted to the wing tip rib, use cotton packing to keep them from rolling around and a clay plug to keep them from falling out. Or just do it as you suggested and secure them in a standard weight box.
Best, DennisT
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Where would someone find something like that? I would like to find it in flat bars or like a tape to cut into lengths for this kind of stuff and balance weight for free flight stuff. The hobby shop I was working part tie at used to carry sheet lead in small packages in the model railroad section for weighting down rail cars and such. A 1/4" round material could be pounded flat also.
Type at you later,
Dan McEntee
Where else :)
Mcmaster Carr has lead wire, sheet, bar, tape and shot.
Pat MacKenzie
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Where would someone find something like that? I would like to find it in flat bars or like a tape to cut into lengths for this kind of stuff and balance weight for free flight stuff. The hobby shop I was working part tie at used to carry sheet lead in small packages in the model railroad section for weighting down rail cars and such. A 1/4" round material could be pounded flat also.
Type at you later,
Dan McEntee
How about a roll of solder Dan?
Jerry
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I used 1/16" sheet lead for model trains to line the walls of my tip weight boxes (1" x 1" with a center bolt) for the base weight then used buckshot and a soft foam rubber insert to hold it all in place. Probably easier to just make a bigger box and skip the sheet stuff.
Ken
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How about a roll of solder Dan?
Jerry
Solder isn't that dense. it's alloyed with tin, I think. I would like to find something that I can wrap in a U shape around the nose of a glider, but not be too big. I have been building some Thornburg replica Interceptor catapult gliders and need 7 to 9 grams for a nose weight. I took a 1/4 ounce piece of those stick on weights and pounded it into what I needed for the first one to test things, but that takes longer than you may think. I would like to walk in some place and look at stuff in my hand, and not buy sight unseen. I have been checking out the golf/tennis racket weights on line, and I find that there is sheet lead used for fishing weights, and some for weighting down plants in the garden (that's a new one on me!) When things open back up I'll be able to hit several local sources. I'll check out the hardware store tomorrow. I have some sheet lead from the Hobby shop for model trains like Ken mentions, but it's pretty thin,and I would like to find something a bit thicker. On these Interceptor gliders I want to shape it in a U shape to grip the nose and tack in place with CA. Steel , like they used on factory made gliders, won't be heavy enough.
Thanks f or the suggestions,
Dan McEntee
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The Jive Combat Team uses gold.
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Dan...if you have an ACE , lowes or home depot or some variant of a real local hardware store....cruise the roofing tin and flashing section...there are pure lead extrusions in roofing called a boot to cover vents or electrical lead in pipe...12x 12" flat base with 4 to 12 inches of 2" to 4" diameter upper tube...relatively cheap item
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Dan...if you have an ACE , lowes or home depot or some variant of a real local hardware store....cruise the roofing tin and flashing section...there are pure lead extrusions in roofing called a boot to cover vents or electrical lead in pipe...12x 12" flat base with 4 to 12 inches of 2" to 4" diameter upper tube...relatively cheap item
Hi Fred;
Thanks for the tip. That was kind of what i was looking for, something I could look at and hold in my hand and see if it fit my needs. I know I have some lead pipe that I saved from various demolitions at work and my Mom's house, but that stuff would be too thick. I'll hit the local hardware store as soon as practical, maybe early Monday morning.
Thanks a lot!!
Dan McEntee
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Back in the day, we melted-down our old lead soldiers (which were painted with lead paint) in an iron pan heated by a charcoal grill inside the garage in winter. We were about 14 at the time and from what I read on the internet, most of us are still alive.
The only downside is that we could have gotten good money for them on Ebay if we'd hoarded them.
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Where would someone find something like that? I would like to find it in flat bars or like a tape to cut into lengths for this kind of stuff and balance weight for free flight stuff. The hobby shop I was working part tie at used to carry sheet lead in small packages in the model railroad section for weighting down rail cars and such. A 1/4" round material could be pounded flat also.
Type at you later,
Dan McEntee
Willie Wylie gave me some of his chrome plating stuff before he died, and with it was a 25 pound spool of 1/4 lead wire that he used as an anode.