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KingKodo wrote:heh, .22 rounds are cheap and you dont actually need to cut them off, you can just pull the bullet out of the shell (assuming you have enough muscle) or pry it out with plyers. you never want to cut a bullet with anything as that can cause sparks and explosions/fire. However, you can buy a ton of them for next to nothing (a few hundred for leik 20$ or a pack of 20ish for a couple $).

Please don't do this. .22 rounds are rim fire rounds. This means that the primer is located along the edge of the rear of the round unlike most centerfire rounds that are in the center. If you look at the way rim fire guns work, they impact the edge of the round. This is exactly where you would grab the round with pliers to remove the bullet. The primers are sensitive to shock, pressure, and heat. Two of these forces are exactly what you would be putting on the round when you remove the bullet. I don't want to be a jerk, but don't play with bullets unless you know what you’re doing. If you want to use live rounds for spare parts for a model, you don't know what you’re doing. Stick with ink pen rockets.

Not advocating he has to use live rounds, but centre fire .22 rounds are also available.

just to stop the argument, i did the conversion already and i didn't use bullets

I had about a hundred spare missiles knocking around after I made a Typhoon Model ages ago, Model aeroplanes defineately a cheap easy way to start.

sA

I have used bullets for things before with no bad side effects. No small children or animals were harmed in the making of these models (well, not many, anyway. )

I used a batch of .22LR slugs (JUST the projectile - not the case or charge or anything that would go bang.) as the missile loads in a 1/72 scale battlemech (actually a metal/plastic die-cast robotech thing. BT name was "archer", but the missile racks were empty when I got it.) I made up a frame that would hold the slugs and epoxied them in place. It worked well.

I've also used a USED (as in already fired, expended and safe) .38sp casing with the primer (fired) removed and resulting hole patched in a vindicator conversion (as the back end of the round being loaded into the gun).

However, ALL of these parts came courtesy of a mate who was a firearms instructor and reloader. I did not attempt to remove slugs from live ammunition (although I do know how to safely).

There are, however, safer and easier ways to do it. Go to a model store and look at the rockets/bombs and missiles.

Another possibility is to buy some of the cheap Gundam or Armored Core option kits which have a bunch of SF looking missile pods in them.

Like these.

http://www.hlj.com/product/BAN61210

http://www.hlj.com/product/KBYAW-10