I also tried the krazy glue and had the same results you had, I tried the Duco Cement as well and was recommended by one of your viewers and it worked well, I put one drop in each after they had dried for the 24 hours and it still seemed to penetrate well into the prim-all and it was not noticeable at all, no problem putting caps on. At first it looked like a gob of glue but it all settled well into the cap. I also found that sanding the aluminum from cans with 400 grit sandpaper then cleaning off well with Acetone before punching out the caps and keeping clean side up worked real well and required nothing to keep the prime-all in the caps. I used 2 snuff spoons in each cap, 1 drop of Acetone, let the sit for about 5 minutes then packed it down with a flat punch and let sit for 24 hours, it solidified well in the caps and stays in place, nothing else was required. I even put them in a container then dumped them all on my work bench and it still stayed in caps. Also, thanks again for recommending the snuff spoon, makes it much easier to get the stuff into the caps. Back to the Duco, be sure to use only one drop and it will flow kind of quick from the tube. The viewer also told me that the Duco also help to seal out the moisture as well.

@LivingFrugalAndPrepping

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds good. I don't think I had enough Prime-all in the caps. I think the hairspray works really well though. I'm going to work on it a little more, When I get it all set and working good. I will make a very short video on it. Next week I'm going to be casting some round balls. Take care and stay prepared.

@wileythompson639

3 жыл бұрын

Yes clean and sand the aluminum also I cut dots from left over nitrated coffe filter from paper cartriges with a hollow leather punch and press the dot on top the wet prime.

@davefellhoelter1343

2 жыл бұрын

I never thought of sanding the aluminum! Great Idea, I sand fiberglass, I sand things I will silicone, I did carb cleaner to degrease empty shells.

@davefellhoelter1343

2 жыл бұрын

@@wileythompson639 Great IDEA with the paper. You gave me an Idea, I think I will use a punched-out paper Cap to give the structural hold and help in detonation? My Nitrated papers are weak sauce? I also think I will use a nitric bath to make my paper a little closer to flash paper?

@terryfrench5632

2 жыл бұрын

@@LivingFrugalAndPrepping Maybe I used too much hair spray but, the spray I used stayed moist and caused some caps to fail.

Cool hat, brother! I just got a similar hat and ordered some fun patches for mine. I got a Crusader Cross patch, a Lone Wolf patch, a Psalm 144:1 patch and a 1776 one...fun!

Old timers are proving our value to society! Never give up! Love, Peace and Awareness! Always learn. Experience first hand. Eyeball to reality! Truth prevails! Just takes a bit longer to be revealed to the submissive unthinking masses! Make it myself. Improvise my own tools and resources. I hope this encourages all those with whatever handicap label they tried to cover your face with. Drop it! Be free to adventure into the future! We Be Good People yeah!!!!!!!

Hey bro! I made a star form board with a #25star driver. I drilled a 1/2 inch divet. Then a 1/4 inch hole. I used a fine recip. Saw blade, small triangle file and fine sand paper to form a smooth star cup former. I then drilled a slightly smaller hole sanded smooth and then a slightly smaller rod to push the star cup into a tight cup. 1/2 inch punched beer cans heated with soot down to lube and wow! A 4 hour experiment. Snug fit, not too long. I just cut tips from green diamond white tips into a tiny glass bowl. A teaspoon of 90% alcohol and chopstick .I wetted the brown striker and rubbed it into the bowl. I added a bit of fffg black powder. A spritz alcohol sprayer washed the striker brown into my mix. I crushed the slurry and dipped it into my cups. I went back to scrape the tiny bowl and kersnap!!!!!!! Poof! It works! Now to dry the caps and slowly press them on the nipples.

@LivingFrugalAndPrepping

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds Good.

I use acetone with Duco glue dissolved in it. I put about half a tube into about 6 ounces of acetone. This is a guesstimate. Works perfectly and dries fast.

I use 1 tube of Duco cement to 7 ounces of Acetone and it works fantastic. I carry my caps in a pill bottle and you can actually shake the pill bottle up and the caps hold together without losing any compound. And the amount of acetone and Duco you can make hundreds of caps. Just make sure to keep it sealed when you're not using it and to shake it up real well to mix it before you use it. I just use an eye dropper with it and it works great.

The gorilla glue and others like superglue leave too much residue behind to be useful for more than one or two shots. The Prime-All is supposed to have a binder in it that is activated by the acetone - BUT that can certainly be improved upon. One part shellac in six parts acetone and your priming compound is not only bound together well, but stays in the cap well also. The hair spray actually sounds like a good idea, but I haven't tried it myself. As an aside, glue choice is important for paper cartridges as well. I find school stick glue works well. Haven't run into any issues with the compound "bouncing out" of the cap. Just gently placed a drop of the acetone on top of the compound and let it gradually absorb in.

@LivingFrugalAndPrepping

2 жыл бұрын

I found the hair spray works the best. I will have to give that acetone and shellac a test. Thank you for the tip. Have a great day and stay prepared.

@davefellhoelter1343

2 жыл бұрын

Hair spray! I will try it. I did and old almost empty clear nail polish filled back up with acetone about 5:1 looks to work well. I am waiting for copper sheeting and my die sets, but I have already made some aluminums with a hard wood anvil and a drill bit die, but about half ripped before I cut a star pattern, I think case lube may help with the aluminum and my copper.

I found a perfect scoop at the DR. office in the form of a ear wax spoon of all things. Its a perfect 1/3 of the small scoop. Also I use a number 3 cake decorator nozzle as a funnel for filling the caps.

@LivingFrugalAndPrepping

2 жыл бұрын

That sounds good, hey if it works you know .

He was on the right track with the Gorilla glue but you need to use a celulose based glue because it's really flammable. Try useing a mixture of about 7oz of acetone (i measured it out in a measuring cup) to a 1oz tube of the Duco Cement. Just squeeze the whole tube into the acetone.Cover it and Shake it up real good to make sure it's mixed then use an eye dropper and put a drop or 2 into your cap with the primeall mixture. Let it set up over night and that should work. I used a mason jar to mix things up in so I know it's air tight and the mixture won't dry out on you. You'll have enough mixture for several thousand caps. Always make sure to shake up the mixture real well before using it. I hope this helps y'all out.

If you're having a problem with your caps tipping over when filling, try drilling holes in a piece of wood slightly larger than the cap and about 1/2 as deep as the cap is tall. Works great for me for filling and compressing the primer mix.

Try mixing your compound and acetone into a slurry. Use an eye dropper to drop the slurry into the caps. I find it much easier than loading the caps dry.

FYI I did a batch of test dummies of old used large riffle primers hauls minus the anvil with acetone mixed with clear nail polish about 5:1 to bind it and keep materials in place. It did work, but I am not totally convinced, as I did not use the proper cap body, did fit loose on cylinder nipples and did fire with a strange yellow smoke/gas, did not sound as energetic as I would like. I drilled a slightly oversized O.D for my cap shell in a piece of scrap hard wood, and I too used a proper sized I.D. drill bit with case lube and pushed my cap shell through the woods hole to size and shape the OD and ID of mine a little better. I then cleaned my lubed cap shells with carb cleaner before filling. Keep those Smoke trains SMOKING! Let's GO BRANDON!

I think you may have not on something. Hair spray on the primer compound while it is dry will blow out of the cap, but try putting the drop of acetone letting that over night then spray a light mist of hair spray into the cap.

@LivingFrugalAndPrepping

Жыл бұрын

I don't use hairspray in a spray can. I use the type in a pump bottle but I use an eyedropper to put it into the cap.

Three roll caps for each cap, just push them in.

@LivingFrugalAndPrepping

2 жыл бұрын

Yes.

Nice video

@LivingFrugalAndPrepping

2 жыл бұрын

Thank You

Instead of hairspray or (hard) Gorilla Glue, try mixing Duco (nitrocellulose) cement with a little acetone and apply it with a toothpick.

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After many years of making my own caps, powder & projectiles there is one detail that I haven't heard mentioned. Perhaps this will help. While rare, sometimes I had caps misfire. Either requiring multiple strikes or never igniting at all. My solution was to incorporate a small amount of ground glass into the primer compound. (Especially with match heads!) Since I started doing that I can't remember having ANY misfires. Once my compound is ground, mixed & ready, I use MEK to dampen it into a slurry. The slurry is then introduced into the cap and set aside to dry. The MEK appears to evaporate 100% and it's rather quick too. Anyway the slurry dries to like a hard plaster material. It will NOT fall out. For my powder, I found that reducing the amount of sulphur from the common recipe also reduces residue making cleanup much easier without any reduction in performance. For projectiles, I prefer a hollow base, conical bullet. Even in my Derringer (Identical to yours). Accuracy and performance is incredible. Hope this helps.

@bendover4154

6 ай бұрын

BTW... I buy my ground glass from Harbor Freight Tools (Media blasting compound). It doesn't take much... a few grains per cap is all you need.

Received a #10 die and my results look extremely more uniform then yours. i have been using strips of aluminum cut from Budweiser tall cans. Overall about 40-50 % of the attempts are keepers with the rest having splits around the flat facings. I will try to us a lubricant to see I can increase the success rate.

@LivingFrugalAndPrepping

2 жыл бұрын

Let me know how that lubricant works out on it.

@mChrest05

2 жыл бұрын

Try annealing the aluminum over a gas flame. When it is soft it should form easier.

@dustinh4175

2 жыл бұрын

I rounded off the sharp edges of the die that forms the inside of the cap and i dont get the splits anymore

@davefellhoelter1343

2 жыл бұрын

YES! I plan on using my Case Lube, maybe clean with carb or break cleaner before final prime, most metals do Not like to be worked dry.

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I heard somewhere that nailpolish could work.

@LivingFrugalAndPrepping

2 жыл бұрын

I think nail polish would be a little too thick. The hairspray work real well. *_Thank you for watching, have a great day and stay prepared._*

@Romin.777

2 жыл бұрын

@@LivingFrugalAndPrepping Hmm now you mention it.

how in the world did I miss this video???? KZread FAIL!

Grind up everything really good and fine. Leave out the glass powder. Use a 10cc syringe and pour your mixed primeall in the back of the syringe. Replace plunger and suck up a small amount of 91% alcohol and mix it. Drip solution in caps and let dry. Works super fast.

16:35 it would be hard, but maybe if you had some tweezers you could add in cut nitrated paper into the end of the cap? I wonder if vaseline would work?

@LivingFrugalAndPrepping

3 жыл бұрын

I think Vaseline would have a tendency to clog the nipples. I think the best thing I have found is the Hairspray. I just finished making 50 caps. All of them with Prime-all and hairspray. I'm going to be carrying them around in my pocket for a few days. To make sure the compound stays put. Will let you know how it works out. Have a great day and stay prepared.

@jimihendrix4376

Жыл бұрын

@@LivingFrugalAndPrepping well how did it work out?

Try the Duco cement mixed with the Acetone., (1 tube of Duco cement to 7 oz. Acetone) I carry my caps around in a pill bottle and I have yet to find any compound in the bottle. I actually shook the bottle up and still nothing came out of the caps. This formula DOES work.

Suggestion, put the super glue drop in the cap first then drop the prime-all in on top. See if that changes the results.

@LivingFrugalAndPrepping

2 жыл бұрын

I found the best way is to use a drop of Hairspray. On top Prime-Aall .

I heard using caps from a toy cap gun works

I don’t bother with the 1/3 small scoop thing. Just eyeball and works good

something I've thought about since the 4th, but if you recall those 'flasher' or strobe light fireworks, I wonder if grinding it up and adding a little pinch would help set off a weak cap? Or maybe metal sparkler material? how much cap do you need to fit on a nipple reliably?

@davefellhoelter1343

2 жыл бұрын

I had LOTS of problems with Remington AND CCI #10 caps lately just no energy? RWS caps are unobtainium. I put a few gains of Black Powder in my cap as I seated on the cylinder nipples, Pain in the BUTT, but it did get the job done. This is the main reason I will make my own caps.

So without spending 50$ on the kit, how should we make these aluminum/brass parts... How can we make our own punch?

@LivingFrugalAndPrepping

2 жыл бұрын

Don't know.

@rickfoster5726

2 жыл бұрын

Please review my 4 videos, I use a leather hole punch.

Hey I ordered one of those caps things off of the link you had and it didn't send me anything to fill the caps with an explosive how do I get the percussion powders? Thank you for the tips I have the cap maker I need to fill it should I use black powder and glue like you did that one time?

@LivingFrugalAndPrepping

3 жыл бұрын

No do not use black powder. You have to order the priming compound separate. You can find the priming compound at this website. 22lrreloader.com/products/prime-all-repriming-compound . Thank you for watching my videos. Have a great day and stay prepared.

Do you have any knowledge about odd percussion pistol nipples? Specifically on a Patterson without the trigger guard. Instead of flat sides to use a nipple tool on, they are completely round and have a Plus sign inset.

@LivingFrugalAndPrepping

2 жыл бұрын

😯 No I've never seen that before. Or heard of that before.

@killerklavvenn

2 жыл бұрын

@@LivingFrugalAndPrepping So far I haven't found any one who has. Thanks.

Did you test the hairspray? Is it in a video, if so what is the title ? God info. Thanks

@LivingFrugalAndPrepping

2 жыл бұрын

Yes I used the hairspray works great. I don't remember if I actually showed it in a video. I use white rain extra hold Hairspray in the pump bottle. I poured a little bit into a soda cap. Then I use the eyedropper to put it to the percussion caps. Have a great day and stay prepared.

@tomnelson3362

2 жыл бұрын

@@LivingFrugalAndPrepping Thank you for the quick reply. It feels good knowing someone is actually checking things out. Enjoy your videos.

You said "nipple". HUH HUH HUH