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Sciforums City: Solstice
- Thread starter Omega133
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I managed to make an interesting little design on a bullet. I made this one just for fun. Didnt think it would work but hey, I have been wrong before.
I basically took a page out of the book of master swordsmiths. You basically take a piece of metal and than fold it onto itself, you repeat it until you have several layers or even in the best swords, hundreds of layers.
I did something similar, I heated up a small brick of carbon steel and tungsten carbide and sandwiched them together. I than hammered them flat and started folding them over and over and over, dozens of times. Probably overkill but why not? So by the end I had an orange hot brick with dozens and dozens of layers of tungsten carbide and carbon steel. I dipped it in water and the steam went everywhere. I took it out and than I put it in the oven at several thousand degrees and turned it off so that the metal heats up and than cools over time so it doesnt become brittle. I finally finished making the metal I wanted but it would be a little while before I could form them into rifle rounds. I headed to the shower and decided to take a nap when I was done.
I basically took a page out of the book of master swordsmiths. You basically take a piece of metal and than fold it onto itself, you repeat it until you have several layers or even in the best swords, hundreds of layers.
I did something similar, I heated up a small brick of carbon steel and tungsten carbide and sandwiched them together. I than hammered them flat and started folding them over and over and over, dozens of times. Probably overkill but why not? So by the end I had an orange hot brick with dozens and dozens of layers of tungsten carbide and carbon steel. I dipped it in water and the steam went everywhere. I took it out and than I put it in the oven at several thousand degrees and turned it off so that the metal heats up and than cools over time so it doesnt become brittle. I finally finished making the metal I wanted but it would be a little while before I could form them into rifle rounds. I headed to the shower and decided to take a nap when I was done.
I woke up, best nap I ever had. After grabbing a bite to eat I headed back to the workshop.
I took the layered block of metal out. I set it in the furnace for about twenty minutes till it was soft enough to work with.
I took it out with a large pair of tongs and put it on a a press. After a good hour of pressing, adjusting, pressing again, adjusting, etc.... I managed to get a sheet of metal about a foot wide, ten feet long, but only an eigth of an inch thick. I took it to some rollers and pushed it through and it was rolled into a ten foot long cylinder. I kept on feeding it through the rollers till it was .338 inches exactly in diameter and 13 feet long. I cut it up into smaller cylinders each one was two inches long, it was tough as hell to do all of that because it was carbon steel layered with tungsten carbide, two of the hardest manmade metals. But by the end I had about 70 ish cylinders. Now I had to form each of them one at a time into a bullet.
After a while the cylinders I wasnt working with had cooled off enough that I could pick them up if I was wearing gloves, I looked at each of them and the two flat ends on each cylinder looked almost like a tree, they had easily a hundred or more rings each ring tungsten or carbon steel.
I began shaping the cones of the bullets, I would finish each cone halfway so it formed a hollow point on the bullet and I would fill it with molten tungsten for mass and than I would finish each cone to seal the tungsten inside it's own bubble in the tip. By the end after a dozen or so bullets I decided to leave the rest for later. I used several presses to sharpen the ends and boy were they sharp. Because of the layering I had used I could sharpen each one enough that I could injure myself if I werent careful. After that it was just finishing touches. I melted some osmium I had bought a while back, expensive as all hell, and dipped the tips of each bullet in it and than dipped them in water. After that I sharpened them again. Osmium is the hardest metal so I figured it would make a great penetrator but it actually had a bluish sheen on it so that definitely added a little artistic flair to each round. After that I dipped the back end of each bullet lightly in molten tungsten so that it would act like a sort of heat shield when it was fired. After that I put on a thin aluminum jacket on the very very tip of each round, it was only enough to cover maybe 30% of the cone but it is great for penetration.
After that I simply attached them to some lapua cartridges. I had 15 of the best bullets I have ever seen. I could not wait to use them sometime.
I took the layered block of metal out. I set it in the furnace for about twenty minutes till it was soft enough to work with.
I took it out with a large pair of tongs and put it on a a press. After a good hour of pressing, adjusting, pressing again, adjusting, etc.... I managed to get a sheet of metal about a foot wide, ten feet long, but only an eigth of an inch thick. I took it to some rollers and pushed it through and it was rolled into a ten foot long cylinder. I kept on feeding it through the rollers till it was .338 inches exactly in diameter and 13 feet long. I cut it up into smaller cylinders each one was two inches long, it was tough as hell to do all of that because it was carbon steel layered with tungsten carbide, two of the hardest manmade metals. But by the end I had about 70 ish cylinders. Now I had to form each of them one at a time into a bullet.
After a while the cylinders I wasnt working with had cooled off enough that I could pick them up if I was wearing gloves, I looked at each of them and the two flat ends on each cylinder looked almost like a tree, they had easily a hundred or more rings each ring tungsten or carbon steel.
I began shaping the cones of the bullets, I would finish each cone halfway so it formed a hollow point on the bullet and I would fill it with molten tungsten for mass and than I would finish each cone to seal the tungsten inside it's own bubble in the tip. By the end after a dozen or so bullets I decided to leave the rest for later. I used several presses to sharpen the ends and boy were they sharp. Because of the layering I had used I could sharpen each one enough that I could injure myself if I werent careful. After that it was just finishing touches. I melted some osmium I had bought a while back, expensive as all hell, and dipped the tips of each bullet in it and than dipped them in water. After that I sharpened them again. Osmium is the hardest metal so I figured it would make a great penetrator but it actually had a bluish sheen on it so that definitely added a little artistic flair to each round. After that I dipped the back end of each bullet lightly in molten tungsten so that it would act like a sort of heat shield when it was fired. After that I put on a thin aluminum jacket on the very very tip of each round, it was only enough to cover maybe 30% of the cone but it is great for penetration.
After that I simply attached them to some lapua cartridges. I had 15 of the best bullets I have ever seen. I could not wait to use them sometime.