tek4260
08-12-2011, 10:22 PM
Just thinking out loud....
A brand new 45 chamber reamer on the assembly line at Ruger starts out cutting .452 throats and gets replaced when it starts cutting, say .448-.450. As that cutter wears and the throats get smaller, so does the chamber. So would we be considered lucky to get one with .448 throats and thus a minimum spec chamber? We can always easily ream out the throats to correct it, or send it to Cas for him to do. Then we would have a proper min spec chamber and correct throats without the expense of a custom cylinder or a fitted and reamed 44 cylinder.
I had posed the same question here as a followup, but it got off track a bit
http://www.rugerforum.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=124466
A brand new 45 chamber reamer on the assembly line at Ruger starts out cutting .452 throats and gets replaced when it starts cutting, say .448-.450. As that cutter wears and the throats get smaller, so does the chamber. So would we be considered lucky to get one with .448 throats and thus a minimum spec chamber? We can always easily ream out the throats to correct it, or send it to Cas for him to do. Then we would have a proper min spec chamber and correct throats without the expense of a custom cylinder or a fitted and reamed 44 cylinder.
I had posed the same question here as a followup, but it got off track a bit
http://www.rugerforum.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=124466