Quote from: lloyd-ss on May 13, 2011, 12:07:09 AMHey Newshooter.There are some guys on one of the other gates using Lexan to protect the faces of their chronographs, and it is working. Lexan is polycarbonate, same stuff as soda bottles. Be careful not to get acrylic (Plexiglass), which will break on the first hit. FWIW - Soda bottles are PET/PETE, (Polyethylene terephthalate), recycling code 1. Plastic baby bottles are PC, recycling code 7 for "other".Agree - stay away from Acrylic (or PMMA, polymethyl methacrylate) as it is more brittle than PC.A polycarbonate shield for a chrony is a great idea - just angle it down 45° to handle ricochets.JMJ
Hey Newshooter.There are some guys on one of the other gates using Lexan to protect the faces of their chronographs, and it is working. Lexan is polycarbonate, same stuff as soda bottles. Be careful not to get acrylic (Plexiglass), which will break on the first hit.
easy. get electrical panel to the size you like and "duct seal" $1.95 per each per pound from the electrical department at Home Depot. get about 2" thickness for safety, then you'll have a very silent trap. depending on what size (mine is 14"x14" which requires about 28 duct seal). duct seal( won't dry out, very reusuable) is very sticky, so they will stick to panel and itself. remember everything is in the electrical department. some dumbass will send you to other water, wood, furance, and ductworks department, but everything you need in those two isles of electrical department.
This is what I use in the basement. It's fairly quiet. Box is lined with sheets of lead. 80% of the pellets just keep sticking to the lead, and keep building up. After about 7 to 10k shots I just melt the sheets down pellets and all. I use a large cookie sheet to pour some more. The excess lead from the pellets are made into sinkers.