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General discussion => Shop Made Tools => Topic started by: wwpete52 on November 19, 2011, 04:36:25 AM

Title: adding a sprue cutter on a Dixie Gun Works scissor mold
Post by: wwpete52 on November 19, 2011, 04:36:25 AM

Many of us have purchased the scissor type Dixie Gun Works over the years.  They are not bad molds at all.  The only negative thing about them is that they do not have a sprue cutter.  Several years ago I saw one on ebay that someone had added a sprue cutter.  I wish that I had paid closer attention to it.  Does anyone out there in casting ball land have any ideas how to do that? :)

Title: Re: adding a sprue cutter on a Dixie Gun Works scissor mold
Post by: Dphariss on November 19, 2011, 07:01:12 AM

I would just buy a real bullet mould and save the trouble. I gave up on "bag moulds"  and hair straighteners when I was a teenager.

Dan

Title: Re: adding a sprue cutter on a Dixie Gun Works scissor mold
Post by: wwpete52 on November 19, 2011, 11:08:55 PM

Quote from: Dphariss on November 19, 2011, 07:01:12 AM

I would just buy a real bullet mould and save the trouble. I gave up on "bag moulds"  and hair straighteners when I was a teenager.

Dan

Thanks for your comment but I don't think I'll give up on it. 

Title: Re: adding a sprue cutter on a Dixie Gun Works scissor mold
Post by: smokinbuck on November 20, 2011, 12:58:09 AM

Pete,
 I had one that a friend who is a machinist put a sprue cutter on. He machined a flat on one side, made the sprue cutter plate and screwed it onto one half of the mold with a stop pin on the other half.. Worked real well.
Mark

Title: Re: adding a sprue cutter on a Dixie Gun Works scissor mold
Post by: Randy Hedden on November 20, 2011, 04:29:18 AM

I did the same as Mark described.  Milled the top flat and made a sprue cutter plate and attached it to the mold just like on a modern commercial mold.  Works like a charm.  I have this scissors type mold because at the time I bought it I could not find any other supplier with a mold in the size I wanted.

Randy Hedden

Title: Re: adding a sprue cutter on a Dixie Gun Works scissor mold
Post by: Bill of the 45th on November 20, 2011, 06:31:33 AM

Or you could contact Jeff Tanner moulds and order a separate sprue cutter for 3 pounds, that's about six bucks plus postage.  Way cheaper than machining drilling and tapping, and stop pins.  Jeff doesn't put cutters on his, you need to get his cutter separate.

Bill

Title: Re: adding a sprue cutter on a Dixie Gun Works scissor mold
Post by: Dphariss on November 20, 2011, 08:22:06 AM

I guess we could look at it from this point of view.
Add up the cost. Based on Brownells shop price survey. Its probably a 100+ dollar job at LEAST.
 Unless you can find someone to do all the machine work for free...

Dan

Title: Re: adding a sprue cutter on a Dixie Gun Works scissor mold
Post by: wwpete52 on November 20, 2011, 01:56:21 PM

Quote from: Dphariss on November 20, 2011, 08:22:06 AM

I guess we could look at it from this point of view.
Add up the cost. Based on Brownells shop price survey. Its probably a 100+ dollar job at LEAST.
 Unless you can find someone to do all the machine work for free...

Dan

My neighbor owns a machine shop.  I'm a blacksmith. We help each other a lot.

Title: Re: adding a sprue cutter on a Dixie Gun Works scissor mold
Post by: brobb on December 19, 2011, 03:54:04 AM

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