Bullet mold for plug belly weights.

[smac]

Jim,
I made a belly/tail weight mold from a blank dot-it mold. You are more them welcome to borrow.

I have 3 slots for a 5/16x1" , and 1/4x 1" tail weights . and 3/8"x 3/8" and a 5/16" for belly weights. They work decent. You might have to reem out some of the holes in the end of the weights.

Scott

p.s. The email you gave me didnt work.

[Mr. Sandman]

Originally Posted by smac

Jim,
I made a belly/tail weight mold from a blank dot-it mold. You are more them welcome to borrow.

I have 3 slots for a 5/16x1" , and 1/4x 1" tail weights . and 3/8"x 3/8" and a 5/16" for belly weights. They work decent. You might have to reem out some of the holes in the end of the weights.

Scott

p.s. The email you gave me didnt work.

Scott,
js_fraser@comcast.net There is an underscore (_) between s and f.


I got lucky a couple years ago when I happen to see a listing in the local classifieds "bargain bin" (I never look thru them but for some reason I did that day) for some tin and mold stuff for sale. I called the guy up and told him I would take it he was asking 50 bucks or so. He had some old cast iron tin squid molds a bunch of machined molds a box of tin and several tail weight molds that were pretty nice along with a box of misc stuff. The tin alone was worth the deal ($7/lb back then, I think it is like $14 now). I asked him where he got it and he said from electrical work scrap. Anyway I have been using the tail weight and slug weights for a while now but I like the nice clean look of the bullet heads I get from M&D's. They are cheap enough but I like doing everything myself and I have the lead. I guess I could cut the lead cylinders into bite size slugs and use them, but I like the accuracy of the bullets.

[Guyver]

You could use a ball end mill to either drill a new hole in your mold if there's enough space or you could run it down an existing hole to make the bottom round. Any machinist should have what you need and could modify the mold for you. (if we're talking about aluminum molds) You can pick up an non-USA made for around $6 if you wanted to modify it yourself.

Sorry for the big pic, only one I could find that clearly shows what I'm talking about.

[Mr. Sandman]

That would work!

I will look into that. Thanks!