Thread: DIY Fibre wads?

I'd be interested to see how that turns out, I had no luck with the hole punches I brought, but they were cheap nasty ones, couldn't even get a clean cut out of paper or card, let alone anything thicker.

Found a Yankee site selling wad cutters for all sorts of catridges. Their 12g one is 0.735" ??

They seem to be all over the place in size, ballistic products wads are .740” for 12 gauge, they seem to be the most common wads I’ve seen.

Will have to go larger again one I move to brass hulls as they would be .760”?

I used cork tile wads and made a punch for them, works fine

Cork is another option for sure, where abouts are you getting your cork tiles from? It seemed kinda expensive from my quick google around, didn’t find anything thicker than 6mm

Originally Posted by NAKED_GOOSE

Cork is another option for sure, where abouts are you getting your cork tiles from? It seemed kinda expensive from my quick google around, didn’t find anything thicker than 6mm

Use two of them, flooring guys should have a few leftovers

If you were careful could you use a bottle jack to press a punch through the pinex. You'd obviously need to secure the punch to the top of the jack ( maybe a bit of tube welded to the top the punch could be contained in).

Originally Posted by NAKED_GOOSE

Cork is another option for sure, where abouts are you getting your cork tiles from? It seemed kinda expensive from my quick google around, didn’t find anything thicker than 6mm

https://www.shuk.co.nz/
They have wool felt in various thicknesses as well.

Originally Posted by zimmer

Yep, those tiles are thinner than the older original Pinex I used. Would need to put in maybe an extra wad. As far as using a 22mm hole saw it might work if the teeth are removed by grinding down leaving just a sharp ege. Pinex is too thick to wack with a wad punch unfortunately.

Wads need to be tight in the barrel so there's no blow past and destruction of the pattern, also the tight wads help to sweap the barrel of BP muck.

How about getting a shit load cut by a CNC laser cutter or water jet cutter?

May or may not work, and probably be worth it if a bunch of us chipped in for a big sack of em cut.

water plus pinex = messy and blown up pulpy fluff....
tile cutters ,diamond tipped on trademe for very little coin....saw them today,looking for something else.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

water plus pinex = messy and blown up pulpy fluff....
tile cutters ,diamond tipped on trademe for very little coin....saw them today,looking for something else.

yeah, i was wondering how that would work.
Thought it might be worth a shot, probably weetbix like you say though.

Just buy a wad punch off ebay

@Tedz50
Those wads look quite good, is that all from felt?
Did you cut them with a hollow punch or something else?

Did you know what they charge for the felt, don't seem to have any luck finding a price

I use the grey felt in this link
Ex Auckland

Industrial Felt Supplies & Manufactures | Auckland, New Zealand

Originally Posted by akaroa1

I use the grey felt in this link
Ex Auckland

Industrial Felt Supplies & Manufactures | Auckland, New Zealand

The A and B grade is the same density just prettier

For punches just buy good individual ones from and engineering supplier

Don't waste your time on cheap sets and crap imports

The engineering suppliers will have good cast English ones