My Bullet Caps

[spyder]

I originally meant to replace one single valve stem cap on my truck. I had finally noticed after a couple years that one of my caps was completely different than the other 3. I set forth to make a replacement... I just happened to set one of the caps I was going to make a copy of on my bench next to a 45 round. After I got done setting up the lathe, I looked over and saw the two next to each other, and decided what I had to do! The first set for my own truck was really easy to make. They are to SAAMI specs, exactly like a 45 cartridge. This is what they look like on my stuff.

[Irving]

Isn't SAAMI a pressure spec?

[Alpha2]

I did something like this, but the caps didn't make it past the first tire rotation. Scoundrels!
The funny thing is...one of my associates parked near me at a jobsite, and noticed the caps! Then he looked at the car, and saw the company logo...well, he knew exactly who it had to be. Am I that obvious?

[Great-Kazoo]

I did something like this, but the caps didn't make it past the first tire rotation. Scoundrels!
The funny thing is...one of my associates parked near me at a jobsite, and noticed the caps! Then he looked at the car, and saw the company logo...well, he knew exactly who it had to be. Am I that obvious?

Of course not.

[spyder]

Isn't SAAMI a pressure spec?

SAAMI has specs on correct dimensions also.

[spyder]

I did something like this, but the caps didn't make it past the first tire rotation. Scoundrels!
The funny thing is...one of my associates parked near me at a jobsite, and noticed the caps! Then he looked at the car, and saw the company logo...well, he knew exactly who it had to be. Am I that obvious?

Yep, I'm making them for people now also.

[ray1970]

I thought about picking up a set for the motorcycle but figured some jack wagon would just steal them. 45 seems a bit big. Pretty sure the ones I was looking at were about 9mm sized.

[cstone]

Spleify did a set up for me out of some spent nickel brass .357 SIG cases.

[spyder]

I thought about picking up a set for the motorcycle but figured some jack wagon would just steal them. 45 seems a bit big. Pretty sure the ones I was looking at were about 9mm sized.

For the "perfect" cartridge dimensions which I wanted to stay as close as possible to, the wall thickness around where the extractor would come is would be too thin. I didn't want it to break. I went with a 45 because there is lots of room for metal, and after the internal hollowing, it would still be strong.

Spleify did a set up for me out of some spent nickel brass .357 SIG cases.

Ya, I've glued spent casings onto my valve caps before, but this time I wanted the entire cartridge, not just the spent case.

[hurley842002]

Those are sweet! As are the puzzles on your site. When you do a G19 let me know, I'd like one.