3D Printed 9MM And 45 Caliber Bullet Molds-Last Video For This Casting Session
Channel: TIM MONTANO
Date: 2021-10-24

This will be the last video pertaining to this particular batch of prototype 3D printed bullet molds.

I'm afraid that this video is also one of those dizzying shaky-camera-closeups kind of video.  It might be advisable to have your Dramamine tablets ready.

Also: as I ramble on in this video I've superimposed some text that correct and/or explain what I'm trying to say in certain parts of the video.

When you see the text scroll across the screen, please take the time to pause the video to give yourself a chance to read the text.  If you don't,   I may come off sounding like I'm contradicting myself.

I HAD prepared some computer renderings of the latest modifications I'd made to the next batch of bullet molds but,  I seemed to have lost those files in the digital vortex of my cheap little Windows-7 laptop computer.  I couldn't find them.

I'll have to keep looking for them.  If I'm not able to find those files I'll have to re-do them.  Either way, I'll post them before I upload the video updates of my next (and hopefully the last) casting session with the upcoming batch of 3D printed bullet molds.

Also; I'll be printing out four more single cavity bullet molds;   two 9MMs and two 45 Caliber molds. 

Two out of the Four bullet molds will have a slightly different look to the outside walls and the other two will be basically the same as those printed in the previous batch of molds;   with the exception of some slight tweaks I've made to their cavity-mouth edge geometry.  

Originally I thought about modeling my bullet molds with an outside slot on each mold-half to accommodate some standard scissoring mold handles. 

I decided against it because it would have meant that I'd have to reintroduce the alignment divots that I had previously modeled onto the inside faces of my mold halves.

With the alignment divots in place I wouldn't have been able to manually sand those inside faces perfectly flat in order to mitigate the damage I encountered along the inside edges of the mold cavities as shown in my previous video casting sessions.

At the suggestion of a couple of different folks that have been following the progress of this project, I decided to model in those slots to accommodate some standard mold handles after all.

This means that I'll have to separately fabricate some kind of alignment pins.  I'm hoping that doing so will help me to stream line my casting work-flow rather than fumbling with those tiny metal-rod alignment-pins. Whether it will work out that way or not is yet to be seen.

At this point I'd like to ask for a rhetorical show of hands.  

Up until you came across this 3D printed bullet mold project, how many of you had heard of anyone who actually 3D Resin-Printed some bullet molds and then proceeded to cast bullets out of molten lead with them?

I ask because,  if there is or was such a person I sure wish I'd known about them before I undertook this project.  I would have liked to have learned from their mistakes rather than having to learn from all of the mistakes I've made thus far.  It sure would have simplified things for me.

I'll be back when I get farther along with that next batch of 3D printed bullet molds.

Thanks again for sticking around.