Does anybody know where to buy anti-vibration mountings from.?

Question

I am looking at purchasing a bulk lot of anti-vibration mountings to sell on to end users. Does anybody know of a specialist supplier. Possibly oversea's suppliers would be the cheapest?

Thanks for your replies

Answer 1

http://www.sdp-si.com/eStore/CoverPg/Vibration.htm
http://www.vibrationmounts.com/
http://www.powertransmission.com/cgi-bin/newleads.cgi?Vibration%20Mounts

Answer 2

Good morning! I'm Dave Corbin, and for more than 20 years, I've been helping people make the state-of-the art bullets you read about in articles and magazine ads. Nearly every custom bullet maker in the world started with equipment developed at the Corbin die-works.

Yet, it seems that only yesterday my brother, Richard, and I were debating whether there was any possibility that someone could use our equipment to make a respectable living, producing custom bullets.

All you have to do is scan the pages of nearly any magazine catering to handloaders, and you'll see that the pages are full of ads from our clients; the articles are constantly talking about the bullets our clients make, and the major ammunition firms are buying the bullets made on Corbin equipment for use in major name brands of ammunition (the premium offerings, of course).

Corbin Manufacturing publishes a book called the "World Directory of Custom Bullet Makers" listing hundreds of individuals and firms whose names you will recognize if you like to read gun magazines. When I read the list, I remember people's enthusiasm for the new bullets that we were able to design tooling to make, and figure out a good way to market, thanks to the power of bullet swaging.

Olympians and world champions in every field of firearms sports, from benchrest to air gun competition, using everything from paper-patched muzzle loaders to custom fin-stabilized shotgun slugs, have come to the die-works where my brother and I have toiled for the last quarter century, some just to improve their already-outstanding achievements, and some to help others become better shooters by manufacturing their own best ideas in how a given bullet should look and be constructed.

Engineers from the Department of the Army, Air Force Armament Labs, Sandia National Laboratories, DuPont, Northrop, and other defense-related organization have visited us over those years. Tools and designs we worked on are in use today all over the world, wherever a long range, high precision projectile or a very special purpose bullet, that could only be made efficiently by the high precision techniques of swaging, is needed for the job.

Whether it is protecting a President at long range or picking a pine cone from the top of an experimental tree, whether it is surveying a dense mountain jungle with remotely launched flare projectiles designed for vertical firing stability, or stitching mirror-based bullets in an arctic ice sheet from a low-flying aircraft so a laser beam can measure the depth and estimate the strength of the ice to hold a transport plane, or whether it is the grim responsibility of instantly stopping a drug-crazed terrorist before he can take the life of another hostage—regardless of the purpose, we sat through many meetings pouring over blueprints, computer readouts, and sketches on the backs of dinner napkins, helping design projectiles for visitors from the far corners of the earth.

Yet, this work is only the continuation of development begun by other pioneers of bullet swaging: people like Ted Smith, who founded the old SAS Dies in the 1950's; Harvey Donaldson, who experimented with some of the first dies to make .224 bullets from fired .22 cases; Walt Astles and Ray Biehler, who developed the principle of upward expansion and the two-die swage technique (as opposed to the RCBS single-die take-apart system); Charlie Heckman, a pioneer swage maker; and so many others whose names probably are unknown to modern shooters, but to whom all shooters owe a debt for their contributions to the perfection of bullets.

You may know that the RCBS company (initials of which mean Rock Chuck Bullet Swage) got started making bullet swaging equipment, but soon dropped it in favor of much more easily produced reloading dies. You may even have heard Speer Bullets was started by Vernon Speer swaging .224 caliber bullets from fired .22 LR cases.

But bullet swaging played a much larger part in leading to the products and companies you use today than just that: Hornady, Sierra, Nosler, Barnes, and a host of other mass production operations owe their very existence to the concept of bullet swaging. Today, more than three hundred and fifty custom bullet firms—operated by people who probably differ from yourself only in having taken the step of putting their intense interest in firearms to work at a profitable and enjoyable occupation—make a full-time living by producing specialty bullets.

So, what is bullet swaging and how do you do it? What do you need to get started? How much does it cost? What are the advantages and drawbacks compared to casting or just buying factory bullets? Can you swage hard lead, make partitioned bullets, make your own jackets, make plain lead bullets or paper patched slugs?

I answer those questions a thousand times a week and I never get tired of it. But to save you a lot of time on the phone, I've written those answers here. If you read through this book and think I have left something out, you are absolutely right: I left out about six more books of information! Those are available if you care to read further.

Swaging is so simple you can do it correctly after just a couple of tries. Then you'll see it's also extremely versatile and powerful: you can do one more thing, and then one more after that, and soon, you will have the whole top of your loading bench covered with one-of-a-kind bullets, some of which no one in the world has ever made before. And that's why it takes at least six more books to make a dent in the vast array of things you might do, could do, if you wished. Only your imagination limits the possibilities.

A deeper study of the specifics of bullet swaging technique and tooling, including products made by people other than Corbin, can be found in the book "Re-Discover Swaging", so named because swaging was, in fact, discovered once before and then almost lost: during the period of 19481963 there were many die-makers who produced swaging equipment, but none of them offered a comprehensive enough range of products to insure their own survival, or that of the swaging arts. Corbin Manufacturing was the first comprehensive effort to preserve and further the technology with information, supplies and tools from one source.

Bullet swaging, by the way, is pronounced "SWAY-JING" and rhymes with "paging". There is a blacksmith technique for pounding hot metal around a form that is called "swedging" but it is a different sort of thing altogether.

If you want to really dig into the subject and learn things most people—including most gun writers, unfortunately—never find out, then order the Book Package. You get another copy of this book free, with it. Give this copy to a friend. Who knows: maybe between the two of you, a new bullet making business may develop that rivals the fame of some of our other clients? It could happen: it has happened over 350 times so far!

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