Hensley & Gibbs bullet/ball moulds...

[tac]

Not for me, but for a guy over here in yUK who has recently acquired a selection of H&G moulds, most of them minus their bolts.

Any ideas about where he might obtain replacements for the missing items?

TIA

tac

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[Andy54Hawken]

I wonder if Larry Callahan at bagmolds.com could make the missing bolts?
Just the first idea of the top of my head tac...
Best of luck in the search!
Andy

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Another thought...is there a local blacksmith and or machine shop that can make and fit the missing parts?
Andy

 

[Medic!]

I'm curious. What dose this bolt look like. Or do?

 

[tac]

Blacksmith?

Not since the late 1800's. We even have water coming out of FAUCETS here, I'll have you know!!!

Machine shops? Sure. This part of the UK makes racing cars. And satellites. And Martian exploring machines. And world-renowned medical equipment, but the askist lives in Scotland.

I'm waiting to hear back from him - heck, I can even make bolts myself, but they are likely to be SAE-style threads that might pose a problem for me to screw-cut.

tac

 

[tac]

I'm curious. What dose this bolt look like. Or do?

I'm guessing that the missing bolts hold the mould halves onto the handles, á la Lyman or RCBS...

tac

 

[Medic!]

Well there you go.

 

[Andy54Hawken]

tac,
Well since you didn't like my blacksmith or machine shop idea....
Buffaloarms and hollowpointmold.com both state that they repair bullet / round ball molds...
Andy

 

[CLT65]

Ask over on the castboolits forum. Someone there would know for sure. Lots of bullet mold experts and connoisseurs there that can help you out.

 

[Certaindeaf]

Ask over on the castboolits forum. Someone there would know for sure. Lots of bullet mold experts and connoisseurs there that can help you out.

Yea, before I go to a blacksmith I'll see if I can find about the part online.. they made millions of molds over the years so maybe they standardized from the gitgo?
Barring that, I'd bring a representative example to an Ace Hardware store and say, "gimme".. works every time.

 

[rick benjamin]

Screws hold mold halves to handle.
Screw holds sprue plate to mold
Screw acts as sprue plate stop
Handle and Pivot Bolt connects handle halves
Murica Bolt, not Metric

 

[tac]

Blacksmith....

Taken last week.

Making a set of grupples for stappling the gruttocking iron.

tac

 

[jordanka16]

Short of having them made, if he has a hardware store nearby head on in and try them until they fit.

H&G was a small operation, and they probably changed specs as the years went by.

 

[tac]

He just called me - he's fixed up - they were standard SAE threads.

Thanks to all.

tac

PS - the likelihood of encountering ANY 'mercan-threaded stuff over here in Yoorup as about as likely as finding a three-pound coin. He borrowed a set of dies off his BIL, who has a WW2 Jeep.