cheap bullet comparator

[bewsher500]

As I am a self confessed tight arse I started loading with the Lee Classic "whack it with a hammer" kit.
works a charm.
I got to the point where I was interested in tweaking a few things and realised the soft points were giving wildly different measurements.

So I took a old case sized case and chopped it in half with a 1mm angle grinder blade about halfway up the case.
I then cut a slot the same width as my £8 Aldi digital caliper jaw in the cut end.
Sharpened the edge up with a fine file and crimped the open end so it sat on the jaw square and held in place.

voila.
zero the caliper on the neck and it gives me a perfect bullet comparator measuring at the ogive.

 

[User00003]

I'm intrigued, but spatially challenged - would you mind posting a pic?

 

[j0e_bl0ggs]

Yeah, me too, although not spatially challenged......
Picture please!

 

[The Singing Stalker]

I'm just stupid!! Picture would excite me.

 

[John_R]

I think he means he uses the front half of a sized case, ie discard the head/rim, so the sized neck acts as the comparator. The slot is cut into the open end to sit down on the caliper.

 

[bewsher500]

exactly, will get a pic

 

[bewsher500]

pics.

adapted shell

in situ on £8 Lidl calipers