http://www.theaffordableshotmaker.com/
You tube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGqZZgfV3lM
Price?
You will have to contact him thru his very rudimentary website...
I made one very similar to this one out of aluminum as a copy of the Littleton shotmaker. I only used two nozzles and had used a hotplate mounted in an angled stand. It supported three of us shooting trap three days a week for a number of years. What I find interesting in the video is that he is using water as a cooling medium. When I tried that the pellets flattened considerably so I used a heat treating oil that I use in the shop. The littleton commercial unit used deisel fuel but that didn't work out so well for me pnic pnic pnic
I contacted the man today and he quoted under $250, shipped. At $45 per bag of shot, you can make that up quick.
Quote from: ADK Bigfoot on January 22, 2012, 01:53:10 AM
I contacted the man today and he quoted under $250, shipped. At $45 per bag of shot, you can make that up quick.
Quick would be a relative term in this case if the intended use is only for smoothbore bp and hunting use. It figures out to 5 1/2 bags of shot, or over 2220 one ounce loads. If you shoot only a couple hundred shots a year and do not share the cost and use of the unit, or share or sell some shot, it might be better to buy shot or use one of the cheaper and pc drip type shotmakers.
Another issue with these is that if one of the nozzles gets a little crud in it, it will deliver very poorly shaped shot and your whole resevoir will have to be culled, not too
difficult, you just roll the batch down an inclined track.
Also, you have to figure in any cost for the lead and electricity to run it. Local prices are from 50 cents a lb so that would be $62.50 and then you would in most cases have to smelt and clean it because these units do not like dross of any kind.
Just some things to think about srndr