stephenbh
03-09-2021, 02:55 PM
Hello,
I'm new to the web site and new to bullet swaging. I'm hoping that someone might give me some perspective on reasonable jacket tolerance expectations. I recently purchased 45 caliber copper jackets with both .030" and .035' wall thicknesses. I QC'd the product with a ball micrometer, measuring at different points on the circumference, both at the throat and midway thru the length.
On both wall thickness jackets I measured a + - .004" - .005" variance. Does this seem excessive or reasonable? Will the process of swaging the cores to the jackets mitigate some of these variances? Thank you all for your input.
Stephenbh
I'm new to the web site and new to bullet swaging. I'm hoping that someone might give me some perspective on reasonable jacket tolerance expectations. I recently purchased 45 caliber copper jackets with both .030" and .035' wall thicknesses. I QC'd the product with a ball micrometer, measuring at different points on the circumference, both at the throat and midway thru the length.
On both wall thickness jackets I measured a + - .004" - .005" variance. Does this seem excessive or reasonable? Will the process of swaging the cores to the jackets mitigate some of these variances? Thank you all for your input.
Stephenbh