Glad to see you posting again . The radius cutter looks great and of quality. I will be following your 30 cal die making. My die making has slowed down till my right arm recovers form severe...
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Glad to see you posting again . The radius cutter looks great and of quality. I will be following your 30 cal die making. My die making has slowed down till my right arm recovers form severe...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
try STM in the top of page adds for ss pins
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I don't have a blackout rifle or a piece of brass, Someone who has both a blackout an 223 can answer this simple question "can a empty blackout casing enter a 223 chamber" The photo looks like the...
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Cane Man
buy once cry once. here is a lathe that will take you thru die work to rebarreling,chambering, and other gunsmithing work. seems pricey but more than half the price is in tooling....
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300savage
used to do a lot of business with Bill and Dave Christsan bros. They operated the Southern clay products
from your city. maybe before your time
Larry
Forum: Gas Checks
1900 pennys for 9600 checks = 0.197 ct. ea math.
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Customcutter: If you have a Fastenal store near you check for 01 or w1, they carry a few sizes.
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Customcutter: I am certain you are using the proper tap, but there are starter taps and bottoming taps and the latter will not start under normal proceedures Just a thought.
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Customcutter; Cane man has lead you into the lapping, I orded some leather polishing cones to use with the diamond grits for final finish. I have not had the chance to try them yet. I ordered...
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You can use your existing reamer and modify it to the new specs. hone or grind from top to reduce diameter, nothing to lose.
You have a relief on the back of a 4 flute reamer .why not on the D...
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On the cutting edge of the reamer you will see a shiney edge all along the reamer that is the relief, on the back side where it looks black is the relief ...
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Customcutter Everyone has an opinion and I have mine, Do not grind the D reamer larger than half, one thousands under is best. an exaggatered example would be only 1/4 diameter removed and only...
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Customcutter I mentioned glueing a 52 hp to the end of your sized shank, then see if your ojive setup will trace the outline, adjust or change until it will.
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When you get the shank to size and start the radius, I have used superglue to glue a serria 52 hp to end and held in place with carriage till glue is thourghly set, Then you can adj the grinder to...
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I use a mill and rotary index, and 120 deg spacing.
For the ogive I use a home made radius grinder with repeatable settings.
KTN uses the mill head set at an angle to shapen the point, which is...
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Hello KTN
I havent seen your posts for a while, but I follow them.
I also find the four flute difficult to manuf. and went to the three flute. Made one 308 three flute and looks and sharpens...
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The pic is a 4 flute reamer. they have problems not associated to a D reamer.
The diamater is .220 the flute is cut to a depth of .080 ..
This depth leaves some stength to the flute but the...
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Sprinkintime
Does Enco or McMaster Carr supply 06 Tool Steel?
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The holes are to set the ojive, the present setting is a 6 ojive, two holes from the top end is approx 9 ojive.
A different size wheel will change the ojive. It is adjusted for wear as you use...
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rotozip tool used for grinder, not a clear picture but u can get the idea of layout for adj ogives
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I searched Master Carr tool steels and did not find 06 graph mo listed. Where did I miss it?
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The radius grinder is a rotozip tool
with a 1 1/2 inch wheel and run at the 20000 rpm, higher leads to vibration. It is locked to make the straight grinding and unlocked to use as a...
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