Can molten lead be poured into a laminated stock?
- Thread starter Lee in Texas
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This guy sells 2 diameters and 2 lengths. The smallest is $7.50.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Crankshaft-Mallory-Metal-Tungsten-1-125-round-x-730-long-/323019726056
If your pieces are different dimensions, I'm interested.
butchlambert
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I haven't followed this thread and just guessing about what you are trying to achieve. I got a piece of plastic pipe, capped off one end, filled it with lead shotgun shot and then filled it with liquid epoxy. I did mop a release agent in the (tubing) pipe.
muleman69
USMC -1st marine Div. RVN
What diameter pipe and hole did you drill in stock? Was it PVC ?
butchlambert
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I drilled the hole in the stock to match the ID of my plastic pipe.
The goal was originally to add weight to the butt of a Savage BVSS stock to balance a 30" MT barrel. It has since become sort of a research project and an obsession to add as much weight as possible. A gunsmith milled a trench in the barrel channel, hollowed out the pistol grip, and hollowed out the buttstock. I used chisels to open each a tiny bit more. The magazine well is also having weight added. Next experiment: tungsten vs lead, cerrosafe, and lead shot encased in cerrosafe. I may try to find a bit of hevi-shot to compare it to tungsten. I'll report my results in case anyone else wants the info.
it may have not worked because of the soft Pine or possibly you got the lead too hot. As I mentioned in a previous post I've done it several times successfully in the Boyds laminated stocks
My pieces are 1 inch diameter and 1 inch long but I would not sell them at that price point because they're worth approximately $50 each for use in the Nitro Harley crankshafts.
dc.fireman
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This is what I did with my kids Pinewood Derby Cars a few years back, only I used .44 mag Lead Semi-Wadcutters, and a drill bit. It's a fairly clean option, you can drill the hole as deep or shallow as you want, and then cover it with epoxy and paint when you're finished.
I have a BVSS stock that I bought from someone on here last year. It has the lead shot/epoxy method to fill in the magazine well. It is HEAVY. I've been contemplating boring out all of the lead and epoxy, as I don't need it to be that heavy for a 300M rifle stock.
P.S. - you can buy cast bullets from most of the big box hunting stores.
Wanting to heavy up my Ruger predator, I poured lead into a piece of 1" electric metal conduit with one end crushed closed from my vice. I installed it into the hollow butt stock and padded it with heavy paper until all the empty spaces in the stock butt were filled pretty tight so that I could hardly get the pad back on the butt. The lead weight I added overcame the padding during recoil ( Lite ) and split the stock for about 3/4 " right where we rest our shooting hand thumb. Never would have thought that this would happen......live and learn. Now I have replaced the tubular weight with heavy lead bullets from BP cartridge rifles wrapped singularly with heavy paper, like salt water taffy is wrapped. I think this is one way to go with a hollow butt stock if extra weight is wanted.
Or you could go off the deep end in a quest to add as much weight as possible, just to see what can be done.
The Savage BVSS stock is fairly chunky. Lots of places to add weight. I had a gunsmith mill a trench in the barrel channel, hollow out the grip, and hollow out the buttstock. The magazine well is also a place to add weight (it will use a Savage Precision Target Action. Single shot).
I bought a bunch of scrap Tungsten off ebay. It's "Mallory Metal"; cylinder shaped slugs for balancing crankshafts, and 2.6 times heavier than lead shot encased in epoxy.
The barrel channel took 7 pieces that weighed 7.5oz each. The magazine well took 2 of those, plus a larger one that weighed 18.8oz. The grip took two pieces that added up about two pounds. The buttstock took ten or eleven of the 7.5oz pieces, then I filled in the gaps with 4 pounds of cerrosafe. With a Savage target action and a 30 inch MTU barrel, it adds up to 31 pounds without a scope. Yeah, it's nuts, but there is no law requiring me to go hiking through the Rockies with it. If a friend wants to shoot a Remington Ultra Mag but is afraid of recoil, they can shoot it in this stock.
One word of caution about the Cerrosafe; it expanded and made a small crack. I'll fill it with epoxy. In hindsight, pouring in epoxy would have been more practical, but this project was not about practicality. It was a quest to see how much weight I could stuff into this stock.
The barrel channel with Tungsten slugs. Spaces filled with lead shot and epoxy.
The Savage BVSS stock is fairly chunky. Lots of places to add weight. I had a gunsmith mill a trench in the barrel channel, hollow out the grip, and hollow out the buttstock. The magazine well is also a place to add weight (it will use a Savage Precision Target Action. Single shot).
I bought a bunch of scrap Tungsten off ebay. It's "Mallory Metal"; cylinder shaped slugs for balancing crankshafts, and 2.6 times heavier than lead shot encased in epoxy.
The barrel channel took 7 pieces that weighed 7.5oz each. The magazine well took 2 of those, plus a larger one that weighed 18.8oz. The grip took two pieces that added up about two pounds. The buttstock took ten or eleven of the 7.5oz pieces, then I filled in the gaps with 4 pounds of cerrosafe. With a Savage target action and a 30 inch MTU barrel, it adds up to 31 pounds without a scope. Yeah, it's nuts, but there is no law requiring me to go hiking through the Rockies with it. If a friend wants to shoot a Remington Ultra Mag but is afraid of recoil, they can shoot it in this stock.
One word of caution about the Cerrosafe; it expanded and made a small crack. I'll fill it with epoxy. In hindsight, pouring in epoxy would have been more practical, but this project was not about practicality. It was a quest to see how much weight I could stuff into this stock.
The barrel channel with Tungsten slugs. Spaces filled with lead shot and epoxy.
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