Solved the percussion cap issue.

[ammo80]

Like many others here, I'm tired of being gouged for percussion caps and I've really gotten into the hobby with my new 1858 Remington and the NAA super companion cap and ball. The NAA actually works well with the red ring caps like you'd use on a child's cap gun but I had one go off as I was seating it.

So I started looking into making my own. I quickly found the prime all recipe and decided to go with that, although it's technically the FH42 compound. Then I started looking into what to use for cups. That tap o cap thing doesn't fulfill my ocd desires with the way they look so I decided to go the route of making my own die to punch and form them.

So in comes my three piece die that punches out the circle and then forms them around the die, leaving me with a perfect number 10 cup to be filled with my compound. It's hardened and tempered so it'll last.View attachment 298346View attachment 298347View attachment 298348View attachment 298349

This is awesome! Have you tried to fit them in a capper yet? That's the main thing I dont like about my homemade caps.

 

[Paul Nelson]

Like many others here, I'm tired of being gouged for percussion caps and I've really gotten into the hobby with my new 1858 Remington and the NAA super companion cap and ball. The NAA actually works well with the red ring caps like you'd use on a child's cap gun but I had one go off as I was seating it.

So I started looking into making my own. I quickly found the prime all recipe and decided to go with that, although it's technically the FH42 compound. Then I started looking into what to use for cups. That tap o cap thing doesn't fulfill my ocd desires with the way they look so I decided to go the route of making my own die to punch and form them.

So in comes my three piece die that punches out the circle and then forms them around the die, leaving me with a perfect number 10 cup to be filled with my compound. It's hardened and tempered so it'll last.View attachment 298346View attachment 298347View attachment 298348View attachment 298349

 

[Paul Nelson]

Way better than the Tapacap the don’t work with my capper.

 

[BeardedGunsmith]

These things will definitely work with a capper. They are nearly the same specs as factory caps.

 

[Dude]

What thickness copper are you using?

 

[BeardedGunsmith]

What thickness copper are you using?

.006 brass shim stock

 

[BeardedGunsmith]

Keep us posted. Your tooling looks much more refined than the other cap makers. Any possibility of one that fits 7/8x14 on a standard reloading press?

Yep. That's already in the works.

 

[sethwyo]

Have you figured up what your price would be for one of these items?

I am interested like every other muzzleloader is

 

[BeardedGunsmith]

Have you figured up what your price would be for one of these items?

I am interested like every other muzzleloader is

Not yet. I wasn't able to make my revised one today due to workload. It will depend on the style as well, press vs hammer/vise.

 

[Windowman100]

Very interested also.

 

[AML]

I would also be interested in a number 11

 

[deerstalkert]

count me into the queue.
as a side line you could hire one of your kids to punch out cups and sell them to lazy guy's like me!

 

[TDM]

count me into the queue.
as a side line you could hire one of your kids to punch out cups and sell them to lazy guy's like me!

I like that idea. Good for the economy.

 

[Dan Batchelder]

Good job on producing such fine materials!
I'll get in line for a #11 version also.

 

[Sparks of Dutch Glory]

Reloading press was my first thought also

 

[Gorloff]

Wow! I want one too.

 

[Whiteoak15]

I'd sure like to get a #11 setup!

 

[kelvinator]

Clearly there is significant interest in a die that can produce a cap which closely resembles the factory made #11 and #10's.
One that can be used in a reloading press would be my preference.
Actually, kinda hard to believe such a thing is not already available.

 

[sethwyo]

I'm trying to think of making one of these where you can make more than one cap at once. A punch to cut out round pieces of metal and then load them into the die and tighten it down in a vise , or tighten it down with a lever that uses threaded bolts on the die itskef and make like a half a dozen or 10 of them at once

 

[sethwyo]

Clearly there is significant interest in a die that can produce a cap which closely resembles the factory made #11 and #10's.
One that can be used in a reloading press would be my preference.
Actually, kinda hard to believe such a thing is not already available.

It actually is, you can order them from at least one company.
Last year I was trying to make some with a piece of equipment I had thought up of drilling a hole into a piece of railroad plate and then using a metal punch on a piece of aluminum to try and form the primer cap. It didn't work too good it was just making a mess out of the round piece of aluminum .
but when I searched online I found a company that makes a machine you can actually make large rifle primers for loading into things such as a 30-06 or 270 that sort of primer,
and one for making small rifle/small pistol primers and this company also has a piece of equipment for making percussion caps