Thunderbird Posted November 20, 2011 Report Share Posted November 20, 2011 I was poking around YouTube and saw a guy making little storage cases for matches and fishing tackle from spent shotgun cases. He was getting the plastic bits out by holding the brass in a pair of pliers over his kitchen stove. Just wondered if there was a less messy way of removing all the plastic stuff. I wondered if sitting them in a pan of boiling water might loosen them enough to get them out with pliers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bakerboy Posted November 20, 2011 Report Share Posted November 20, 2011 I was poking around YouTube and saw a guy making little storage cases for matches and fishing tackle from spent shotgun cases. He was getting the plastic bits out by holding the brass in a pair of pliers over his kitchen stove. Just wondered if there was a less messy way of removing all the plastic stuff. I wondered if sitting them in a pan of boiling water might loosen them enough to get them out with pliers. I have buckets made from re cycled Shotgun cases, (not made by me of course) we use them at the training ground to collect more used cartridges Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunderbird Posted November 20, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2011 Ultimate recycling that! I was thinking about using the 'brasses' to make little curiosities to give people at Xmas. Some push together containers for matches for camping and stuff like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iced Tiger Posted November 20, 2011 Report Share Posted November 20, 2011 Are the brasses made of brass, stupid question I know , if so, can you weigh them in at a scrap metal merchant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannon Posted November 21, 2011 Report Share Posted November 21, 2011 You can fit £1.60 in 5p's into an empty 65mm 12 gauge cartridge. Currently have £21.40 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mad1 Posted November 21, 2011 Report Share Posted November 21, 2011 I made a key ring with a rabbits foot epoxied in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iced Tiger Posted November 21, 2011 Report Share Posted November 21, 2011 I thought rabbits foot had disappeared, used to have one ages ago, not seen any since. Not as PC in this day and age, bring back the good old days . Might make my own the next rabbit I shoot . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloke Posted November 21, 2011 Report Share Posted November 21, 2011 Are the brasses made of brass, stupid question I know , if so, can you weigh them in at a scrap metal merchant. Don't think so, or how could they be collected with a magnetic picker, unlike FAC brass, which won't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mad1 Posted November 21, 2011 Report Share Posted November 21, 2011 I thought rabbits foot had disappeared, used to have one ages ago, not seen any since. Not as PC in this day and age, bring back the good old days . Might make my own the next rabbit I shoot . Yeah you get 4 free with every rabbit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonwolf444 Posted November 21, 2011 Report Share Posted November 21, 2011 had an idea the other night, was looking at some empties and was thinking about making a silencer out of them, the process is really quite simple, its just getting it to work, or even if it would work at all. the idea is to get a 6-7 inch length of pipe that will fit a 12 g then remove all the plastic and the primer from the cart and fill the brass with hot glue, then drill the primer hole out to the dia of the barrel, give it one of two wraps of eleci tape and push it firmly into the pipe, then drill a hole for a grub screw to hold it in place, in my case im going to try using the screw that holds the front sight in. to make your first baffle, punch out the primer and trim the plastic just enough to neaten up, file down the brass rim so it will slide just in to the pipe open end first, to ensure the concentricness you could also give this one wrap of lecci tape to make sure, the next baffle will be spaced closer so trim slightly more, do this three or four times getting smaller each time, finally make an end cap out of another spent cart and grub screw it in place, check its concentric with the bore, and test. i havent done this yet but i plan to tonight provising i still have some pipe left. It should make a caliber specific mod for .177 only, and as i plan on fitting it to a co2 gun it might just work! if you want to try it on a .22 you would have to drill the primer hole out to larger than 6.5 mill or something because the pellets just dont quite fit though, hope someone likes my idea! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonwolf444 Posted November 21, 2011 Report Share Posted November 21, 2011 well hell fire i went and did it even though i have a cold :(. Slightly more surprising still i made it and it works well, might add an extra grubb screw to keep it concentric with the barrel as its only a push on type. I couldnt belive it when i first put it on its amazing expect a how to coming soon! with diagrams! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaxiDriver Posted November 21, 2011 Report Share Posted November 21, 2011 Well..Someone (DW) sounds like they've got too much time on their hands lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewj Posted November 21, 2011 Report Share Posted November 21, 2011 this is on a large scale obviously but makes an intresting watch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Mat Posted November 21, 2011 Report Share Posted November 21, 2011 I was poking around YouTube and saw a guy making little storage cases for matches and fishing tackle from spent shotgun cases. He was getting the plastic bits out by holding the brass in a pair of pliers over his kitchen stove. Just wondered if there was a less messy way of removing all the plastic stuff. I wondered if sitting them in a pan of boiling water might loosen them enough to get them out with pliers. I've made loads of these with 12 bore cases and the trick i found was to heat the metal with a heat gun, avoiding the plastic, then you can pull the plastic off in one piece without it melting everwhere. atb mat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunderbird Posted November 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2011 Cheers mat. I've seem it done now on YouTube both ways, as in the flame outside the brass avd also some guy was holding the flame up inside and making a right mess. Outside it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonwolf444 Posted November 23, 2011 Report Share Posted November 23, 2011 Well..Someone (DW) sounds like they've got too much time on their hands lol AH yes, WAY to much time! just cleared out the shed and im off sick due to a bad cold, was sat in bed looking at a silencer for the xs78 and tbh im a little short on £ these days and i thought the cartridges without the primer, or any of the metal slide perfectly into some pipe i have, its a very tight fit and so they make the perfect baffle/spacer design. I was expecting it to fail, which it half has and half hasnt, it took me about half an hour to make, but the idea was to have a single screw into the hole where the front sight is screwed on, however i think i need to change the design so i shrouds more of the barrel so it doesnt move around as the original one moves to much meaning its not concentric witht he bore and stops the pellet getting out of the final baffle which is a bit of a flaw. However the original fits very tidily on my norica and its a tighter fit, so i only need to drill out the baffles to allow the .22 pellet to get out. The problem with silencing a spring gun is that its mostly the piston making the noise, which you cannot dampen so well, however im told that "downrange" it make some differance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunderbird Posted November 23, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2011 That would make sense. Any mechanical noise (I would have thought) would dissipate more than the report, wouldn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wharf Rat Posted November 23, 2011 Report Share Posted November 23, 2011 I have read that you can make a whistle/call from cartridge brasses. I have asked around for ages to see if any one still remembers what to do with no luck though. In The Amatuer Poacher, Davies tells you how to use one but reckons that the way to make them is 'so well known by all' that he doesn't bother explaining how. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salukiwhippet Posted November 23, 2011 Report Share Posted November 23, 2011 Get two cases and knock the primers out, cut them down so the plastic is 1/2" or so long and push one over the other, open end to open end (primer holes outwards) It makes a wigeon whistle type noise, never tried it in the field though. Maybe messing about with different length plastic bits would change the pitch? James Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris B123 Posted November 23, 2011 Report Share Posted November 23, 2011 Not a very good advert for West London shooting school, that chap shooting had no glasses or ear protection that I could see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mereside Posted November 23, 2011 Report Share Posted November 23, 2011 i make wigeon whistles with them heres a couple sound great, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunderbird Posted November 23, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2011 Fantastic! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mereside Posted November 23, 2011 Report Share Posted November 23, 2011 (edited) to make them take out primer hold onto the plastic case and warm the brass over a gas flame rotating as soon as you start to see the plastic lip onto the brass remove frome flame .hold the brass with a tea towel and twist off leaving a nice shiny brass where the primer used to be is splayed, you need to knock that flat and then on one half you need to open out slightly. i have an oversized punch when it fits just inside the other knock together with a rubber mallet .to finish use a ball pean hammer to slightly concave each half and then use paracord to make a lanyard,atb wayne one more thing suck dont blow Edited November 23, 2011 by mereside Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulos Posted November 23, 2011 Report Share Posted November 23, 2011 Christmas morning must be a magical time in your houses :blink: I use my empties for brightening up landfills Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swiss.tony Posted November 24, 2011 Report Share Posted November 24, 2011 [quote name=paulos' timestamp='1322081519' post='1 :lol:593113] Christmas morning must be a magical time in your houses :blink: I use my empties for brightening up landfills class :lol: :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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