Where can a guy purchase either plastic hammer head replacements or plastic or Teflon material to make the heads? Inquiring minds need to know. I'm preciate it!

Buy Dead Blows and never Rebound!

But I have a couple of Snap On plastic faced hammers and the Snap On Truck has replacement heads.

You can buy stock for turning at MSC or McMaster Carr or Enco.

Plastic head hammers are light, I like the heavy shot filled dead blows. Perfect for the drawbar on the vertical mill.

I really appreciate the fast response. I have a couple dead blows but the plastic hammers work great on my old Lee Target Loaders. There are many other applcations in the shop that I just need my plastics.
Thank you so much.

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Originally posted by olcrip:
I really appreciate the fast response. I have a couple dead blows but the plastic hammers work great on my old Lee Target Loaders. There are many other applcations in the shop that I just need my plastics.
Thank you so much.

Yup, a guy cannot have enough hammers! I even have rawhide and buffalo horn hammers. My hammer for the cast bullet molds is a chunk of live oak from Georgia, the same wood used in Old Ironsides.

As far as buying material McMaster Carr stocks many different types of round stock and always ship the next day.

But I recommend a high quality replaceable tip hammer that has been around forever and will be able to buy replacement heads for the rest of your life......Lixie with a soft green end and a hard black end. Look for them in the same McMaster Carr pages as they seem to carry everything

Brownells

Anyone who sells jeweler's tools.

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Originally posted by WoodHunter:
My hammer for the cast bullet molds is a chunk of live oak from Georgia, the same wood used in Old Ironsides.

How many cavities do your moulds have? More than two, I'd guess, if you need a hammer.

For any size bullets in one or two cavity moulds, even with hard linotype I just use a pair of insulated gloves and open the sprue plate with my right hand while holding the mould handles in my left hand.

It eliminates any chance of the hammer hitting something at a wrong angle or in a wrong place and either bending a sprue plate or springing the blocks into a relationship where they do not make as good bullets.

I started out using a hickory hammer handle for opening sprue plates, but found that eventually over the years the plates or blocks were always damaged at least a little bit by striking them with anything, so I tried the glove thing starting about 25 years ago. It has worked fine for me ever since.

I am NOT criticising what you are doing, I understand that even mould companies sometimes suggest using a hammer or hammer handle, or a sturdy piece of oak, ash, hickory, or some other hardwood.

Just thought maybe I could mention this to you and perhaps save you some grief and or a tiny bit of expense re-tuning a mould some time in the future.

I find the glove method to be more gentle to the moulds, and faster too. You always have the gloves on while casting, and don't have to pick up or lay down any sprue-opening tool during the casting process.

Best wishes,

AC

If you can overlook the anti-gun position of the medium, ebay has sellers that offer small bars of plastics and metals.

You can buy Derlyn and Lexan rods of almost any length or diameter on the internet. I have a wood lathe and cut and shape them on it as necessary. I made an entire hammer out of Derlyn with it.

try a obama bobble head

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Originally posted by butchloc:
try a obama bobble head

Or maybe a 22WRF one

Another option:

http://www1.mscdirect.com/eCom...eads-Faces/_/N-77f29

Though I just use a piece of wood for bullet casting. If I am using a mould the bullets stick in I'll cut a piece of board for the hammer and cut the end at angle to make an edge.

Just got my rods from MSC for my hammers. Thanks guys.

Merry Christmas my friends!