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Sectioned Bullets
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<blockquote data-quote="Dave King" data-source="post: 22292" data-attributes="member: 3"><p>Ian</p><p></p><p> I needed to hold the bullets to cut them in half with a hacksaw. Some of the bullets rotated a bit before they accepted the hacksaw blade cut, this rotation scuffed the bases on some.</p><p></p><p> I made a jig from a block of wood and inserted the bullets point first into this drilled hole for the initial cut/slice. I then used an indentation on the outside of the block to hold them on the belt sander. I also tried to use a grinding wheel with a jig but the temperature of the jacket against the wheel melted the lead and ruined any possibility of getting a true representation of the lead to jacket bond.</p><p></p><p>All-in-all a very interesting time, with the exception of a few cuts, scrapes and a burn from some lead it went very well.</p><p></p><p>(It's a lot more fun to shoot them than cut them in half.)</p><p></p><p>For the image(s) I placed the examples (bullets) directly on a flatbed scanner.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave King, post: 22292, member: 3"] Ian I needed to hold the bullets to cut them in half with a hacksaw. Some of the bullets rotated a bit before they accepted the hacksaw blade cut, this rotation scuffed the bases on some. I made a jig from a block of wood and inserted the bullets point first into this drilled hole for the initial cut/slice. I then used an indentation on the outside of the block to hold them on the belt sander. I also tried to use a grinding wheel with a jig but the temperature of the jacket against the wheel melted the lead and ruined any possibility of getting a true representation of the lead to jacket bond. All-in-all a very interesting time, with the exception of a few cuts, scrapes and a burn from some lead it went very well. (It's a lot more fun to shoot them than cut them in half.) For the image(s) I placed the examples (bullets) directly on a flatbed scanner. [/QUOTE]
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