Just a little grouse...

[johnly]

I purchased a Lyman .363" sizing die for my Makarov. Warmed up the 450 and started sizing bullets. After getting the depth set, I got around to measuring the bullets I had sized and they measured .3605"! Not all bad I guess, in that I could use a fat 35 caliber sizer for my Marlin bullets. Still not exactly what I had in mind when I ordered the sizer.

John

[beagle]

Yeah, that always irks me too and my buddy who is a machinist says that they can hit .0003+/- with a Sunnen grinder.

That's just poor workmanship and quality control....or lack thereof./beagle

[johnly]

Ok I now have to fess up and eat some crow.

I measured the sized bullets again after I removed a bump of hard lube from the measurement surfaces. The are right at .3635":oops:


John

[Gunslinger]

He he... an honest mistake, but kinda funny!

[Jack Stanley]

Crow isn't to bad with the proper amount of horseradish added ..... freshly grated of course . [smilie=1:

Jack

[onceabull]

Try the Beaver brand wasabi horseradish(the green stuff).. good with most any roadkill... 8-) Onceabull

[Bret4207]

Crow isn't to bad with the proper amount of horseradish added ..... freshly grated of course . [smilie=1:

Jack

Anything is edible with enough garlic, ketchup and Miracle Whip.

[sundog]

almost anything is edible with copious quantity of Tabasco, Lousianna, and most recently Texas Pete.

Don't believe the stamped size on dies...

[Bloodman14]

How can a boolit measure smaller than stated size with a chunk of lube on your measurement device? Wouldn't that make it much bigger? Or was my year in Machine shop Vo-Tech wasted? LOL

[jdgabbard]

No worse then when you order from LEE a .358 sizer, size some boolits and they measure at .355. Doh!

[mpmarty]

OK, done lurking! Forget the other hot sauces, try Cajun Sunshine. My regrets to General Mcinerney (sic)
Marty in the Oregon mountains:-D

[Bret4207]

How can a boolit measure smaller than stated size with a chunk of lube on your measurement device? Wouldn't that make it much bigger? Or was my year in Machine shop Vo-Tech wasted? LOL

I wondered that too.

[Avery Arms]

How can a boolit measure smaller than stated size with a chunk of lube on your measurement device? Wouldn't that make it much bigger? Or was my year in Machine shop Vo-Tech wasted? LOL

He could have adjusted the zero on the calipers while the two blades were not fully closed.


PP

[goste]

Question, if you don't mind,

Are you using a Lee mould? And if you are, would you mind telling me what size the Boolits drop at?

Thanks Caspar

[Dale53]

He probably had a spot of lube on his MICROMETER faces. A good machinist will lightly clamp a small piece of typing paper (or these days, computer paper) between the micrometer jaws and wipe the contact surfaces. If they are not clean you will NOT get a good measurement.

Dale53

[runfiverun]

he was measuring the inside of something so something on the blades made them coser together not further apart...
my makarov likes 366. boolits btw 9x18 that is.

[redneckdan]

Yeah, that always irks me too and my buddy who is a machinist says that they can hit .0003+/- with a Sunnen grinder.

That's just poor workmanship and quality control....or lack thereof./beagle



Probably should be able to do better than that. One project I was working on had a tolerance of +/- 10 microns (roughly .0004), this was on a Clausing multi-turn 2000 using diamond tooling on 52100 steel.