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April 18, 2019, 06:28 PM | #1 |
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Lyman 4500 top punch for Lee 459-500-3R
Wanting to start casting for my 45-70 Sharps. I have a Lyman 4500 lube sizer and just bought a two cavity Lee 459-500-3R mold (500 grain .459 45-70 bullets). Dug around trying to find the top punch for my 4500 that would not damage that cast bullet. Can't find a table that gives me that info. Does anyone here have the website for that table handy or can tell me offhand what top punch I should use?
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April 19, 2019, 07:55 AM | #2 |
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Closest I could find.http://castpics.net/dpl/index.php/th...an-top-punches Some members at Cast Boolits can make what you need. http://castboolits.gunloads.com/foru...8-Cast-Boolits
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVeb2YdJQZU at 1:10 RE: http://noebulletmolds.com/NV/index.p...36f0qp1d2uakm6 HTC459-500-SP-BP2 And.... http://noebulletmolds.com/NV/product...36f0qp1d2uakm6 |
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I am moving your thread to the cast bullet forum where you may get more answers.
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The NOE TPs mentioned the 3rd link in Post#12 are designed for those Lee spire points. |
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April 19, 2019, 11:25 PM | #7 | |
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I use the Accurate top punches for flat nose and round nose bullets. I apologize if I misled anyone. |
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April 23, 2019, 12:22 PM | #8 |
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A belated thank you to everyone that took the time to help. I've been out of town away from the internet (was kinda nice actually :-). I now have the info I need thanks to this forum. GREAT resource. Now to fire up the melting pot and turn some of the one pound "bricks" of lead into something useful.
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April 30, 2019, 07:24 PM | #9 |
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Don't forget ....you can custom fit a top punch , that almost fits your bullets profile , with epoxy putty . Clean the top punch so the putty will stick , grease the bullet nose so it wont stick, place a small ball of epoxy putty in the nose cavity and gently press the bullet nose into the punch...the putty will custom fit the cavity to the bullet. Let cure 24 hours , remove and trim off any excess putty ...you now have a perfectly fitted custom top punch.
JB Weld makes an epoxy putty and I've used some from the plumbing section ( leaky pipe fix)and the car section (auto gas tank hole/leak repair) They all work just fine for making nose punches fit . I make a lot of WC and SWC from round nose punches...I don't care for RN bullets but it seems every die set has them in there . Gary |
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