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Jon Tupper
Junior Member
Username: Jon_up_north
Post Number: 42
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 31, 2005 - 02:46 pm: | 
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We have a standard fitting tap for our tap handles (currently using a Sleeman's handle). My friend and I would like to have something a bit more interesting and we were thinking that a spent 0.50 cal casing would be pretty neat as a tap handle. Two questions:
1) Would the bore on the .50 cal casing fit, or be modifyable? 2) Anyone know where us Canucks can get a spent .50 cal caseing?
Attempted murder. I mean, really, what is that? You don't win a Nobel Prize for Attempted Chemistry
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Bill Moore
Intermediate Member
Username: Bill_beerman
Post Number: 325
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 31, 2005 - 05:10 pm: |
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Try gun and ammunition supply stores. They might have ones for reloaders. |
Greg Harris
Junior Member
Username: Gregh
Post Number: 76
Registered: 06-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 31, 2005 - 05:48 pm: |
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Check this out. Ebay item #6182013055
Couldnt figure out how to create a link. |
Jon Tupper
Junior Member
Username: Jon_up_north
Post Number: 43
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 31, 2005 - 05:56 pm: |
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Bill that would be an otherwise decent tip, but here in Canada you are not even alowed to look at plans for the .50 cal, let alone buy rounds for reloaders.
Attempted murder. I mean, really, what is that? You don't win a Nobel Prize for Attempted Chemistry
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Jon Tupper
Junior Member
Username: Jon_up_north
Post Number: 44
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 31, 2005 - 06:05 pm: |
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Just wanted to add, Greg, you rock! I WANT that.
Attempted murder. I mean, really, what is that? You don't win a Nobel Prize for Attempted Chemistry
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Dan Mourglea
Advanced Member
Username: Cataclysmbrewer
Post Number: 506
Registered: 03-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 31, 2005 - 06:28 pm: |
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The 20mm rounds are bigger and more impressive. . .or even the 30mm. . . .50cal rounds are too small to be a good tap handle. |
Jon Tupper
Junior Member
Username: Jon_up_north
Post Number: 45
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 31, 2005 - 06:37 pm: |
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Indeed it seems to be so. I've not actually seen a 50 cal round before. We're pretty limited as to what we can aquire up here.
Attempted murder. I mean, really, what is that? You don't win a Nobel Prize for Attempted Chemistry
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Tony Legge
New Member
Username: Boo_boo
Post Number: 24
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 31, 2005 - 09:59 pm: |
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Jon, have you tried the army/navy stores. They sell lots of do dads like that. I don't think the new gun laws forbid spent ammo, especially if you are modifing it for an alternate purpose. |
Belly Buster Bob
Senior Member
Username: Canman
Post Number: 2348
Registered: 02-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 31, 2005 - 10:03 pm: |
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20 mm casings are easy to come by in canada...just ask around and I'm sure you'll find some. The Cdn Forces uses 20 mm regularly (F18). If you know someone with a lathe you can turn your own...very simple job even for an amatuer.
50 cal is pretty small for a tap handle
Bellybuster Bob
www.bellybuster.netfirms.com
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Belly Buster Bob
Senior Member
Username: Canman
Post Number: 2349
Registered: 02-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 31, 2005 - 10:04 pm: |
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I see you're up in Ft Mac. Cold lake is just down the street (sort of) ask around...I pretty much guarantee you'll find some. I know quite a few folks up there
Bellybuster Bob
www.bellybuster.netfirms.com
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Tony Legge
Junior Member
Username: Boo_boo
Post Number: 26
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 31, 2005 - 10:17 pm: |
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Be an interesting convesation peice though |
GILBY
Junior Member
Username: Cugilby
Post Number: 41
Registered: 04-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 01, 2005 - 12:43 am: |
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I made an opener from a huge casing....I centered a cheapo bottle opener inside the casing and filled it with epoxy.
If you want to use one as a tap handle, fill it with bondo or JB Weld. Put a threaded insert in before it sets and screw it on your faucet. |
David Woods
Advanced Member
Username: Beericon
Post Number: 581
Registered: 02-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 01, 2005 - 12:44 am: |
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Hood ornaments off of old cars are another good tap handle.
You could also take about 6 30.06 shells and make a kind of stick figure out of them.  A bottle cap head, a few beers, some EMPTY shell cassings, a few more beers, some solder, a torch, a few more beers!
Hey, how about some pics of some of the best home made tap handles! That would be another great contest idea!
David |
Jon Tupper
Junior Member
Username: Jon_up_north
Post Number: 46
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 01, 2005 - 05:34 pm: |
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Dave: That gives me a good idea... Making a set of Deer antlers out of spent 30.06 casings.
Mmmmm deer..
Attempted murder. I mean, really, what is that? You don't win a Nobel Prize for Attempted Chemistry
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tobias magan
Junior Member
Username: Magan
Post Number: 73
Registered: 07-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 11:26 am: |
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Not to plug a business, but try goldnuggetsurplus dot com. Small local shop here in the geographic center of Nowhere, Kentucky. He had some decorative shell casings around his shop. Looked like the kind of guy that can find what you want. If he can't get it, try searching for surplus stores in Fayetteville, NC or Killeen, TX.
NAYy, JASC.
Tobias |
Mike Huss
Advanced Member
Username: Mikhu
Post Number: 685
Registered: 03-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 12:43 pm: |
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While I think that 20mm shell would be cool as a tap handle, I really like Grant's leftmost one...
http://hbd.org/cgi-bin/discus/board-profile.cgi?action=view_profile&profile=punk ndrublic-users |
Richard Nye
Advanced Member
Username: Yeasty_boy
Post Number: 725
Registered: 01-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 12:55 pm: |
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A hand grenade would be pretty cool, too. |
grainbill
New Member
Username: Grainbill
Post Number: 9
Registered: 04-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, June 09, 2005 - 05:52 am: |
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Made a tap handle from a spike mule deer antler. Now I want three more. Cut it square, drill and tap. Pun not intended. Spike antlers are relatevly straight. |
PalerThanAle
Senior Member
Username: Palerthanale
Post Number: 1394
Registered: 04-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, June 09, 2005 - 05:13 pm: |
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Richard - did you see this yet?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=571&item=6184917621&rd=1& ssPageName=WDVW
PTA
If all else fails, stop trying all else.
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