RBHarter
West Central AR
Cheap , easy , minimal tools needed to make these demooning tools .
Step 1 buy a steel shaft golf club .
I got a cheap putter with a slightly corroded head , undesirable for a ball beater , gave $1 for it at the thrift store . Local charity feed .
Step #2
Cut it off at the bottom of the grip . The steel shafts are stepped like Mauser barrels allowing the selection of ID . In this example the steps would be suitable for 9mm , 40/10 , or 45 ACP .
Step #3
Check case fit inside the tube . One of the little bonuses of the club shaft is that most of them copper plated inside and nickle/chrome outside , a nice rust preventing measure , and it's medium flex thin wall seamless tubing . This one has a glue goober inside and hangs up a little . I had to cut the grip back some drivers and wedges have fatter shafts .
Step #4
Marking the step and notching .
It looks by eyeball to be about 1/4 of the diameter left standing but I chose to slip over the case and mark the edges of the clip. Then I used a 3 corner file to notch and set the shoulder .
Last step .
Cut the notch off . A Dremel tool would be the way to do this really but mine is buried someplace still . I made the drop cut with a flat file and squared up the faces and flat of the step . I left this one a little proud and rolled the corner so it rises up just over the rim but the flat hits the clip solid .
This one is considerably shorter than my first one . The first one was from a wedge and a larger dia shaft . It holds 14 empty rounds , this one only 6 . There might be glue or rubber from the moulded grip inside . It took me about 45 minutes to make from the first cut to dressing the sharp edges with interruptions , kids coming home , Ms requests , etc
Step 1 buy a steel shaft golf club .
I got a cheap putter with a slightly corroded head , undesirable for a ball beater , gave $1 for it at the thrift store . Local charity feed .
Step #2
Cut it off at the bottom of the grip . The steel shafts are stepped like Mauser barrels allowing the selection of ID . In this example the steps would be suitable for 9mm , 40/10 , or 45 ACP .
Step #3
Check case fit inside the tube . One of the little bonuses of the club shaft is that most of them copper plated inside and nickle/chrome outside , a nice rust preventing measure , and it's medium flex thin wall seamless tubing . This one has a glue goober inside and hangs up a little . I had to cut the grip back some drivers and wedges have fatter shafts .
Step #4
Marking the step and notching .
It looks by eyeball to be about 1/4 of the diameter left standing but I chose to slip over the case and mark the edges of the clip. Then I used a 3 corner file to notch and set the shoulder .
Last step .
Cut the notch off . A Dremel tool would be the way to do this really but mine is buried someplace still . I made the drop cut with a flat file and squared up the faces and flat of the step . I left this one a little proud and rolled the corner so it rises up just over the rim but the flat hits the clip solid .
This one is considerably shorter than my first one . The first one was from a wedge and a larger dia shaft . It holds 14 empty rounds , this one only 6 . There might be glue or rubber from the moulded grip inside . It took me about 45 minutes to make from the first cut to dressing the sharp edges with interruptions , kids coming home , Ms requests , etc
. They came to 79¢ ea delivered . It's pretty hard to argue with having $60 in 75 clips for anything . I was given another 15 .