cardiffrob
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Strange question...
I need to make a slightly tapered 'mandrel' to use as a former for cigarette paper so I can make slightly conical, closed at one end, cups to put gunpowder in. It is for a .44 black powder revolver. The idea is to make a Vase shape, fill it with powder and then cap it off with a .44 ball. The paper cone makes it easier to load instead of the general faff of pouring powder from a plastic test tube into each cylinder.
Now, what material would be machineable on the lathe to a smooth finish and be unsticky enough that fag paper and glue would not stick to it. Melted down milk bottles?
Bang....bang.
http://www.gascolt.pl/gascolt_foto/fotod_n/1141_2.jpg One like this.
I need to make a slightly tapered 'mandrel' to use as a former for cigarette paper so I can make slightly conical, closed at one end, cups to put gunpowder in. It is for a .44 black powder revolver. The idea is to make a Vase shape, fill it with powder and then cap it off with a .44 ball. The paper cone makes it easier to load instead of the general faff of pouring powder from a plastic test tube into each cylinder.
Now, what material would be machineable on the lathe to a smooth finish and be unsticky enough that fag paper and glue would not stick to it. Melted down milk bottles?
Bang....bang.
http://www.gascolt.pl/gascolt_foto/fotod_n/1141_2.jpg One like this.