Originally Posted by
Lostinidaho
Chev.
So I had some 9/32" brass tube left over from a dead end approach. I was trying to make the case longer to hold the shot. That didn't work. The brass tube expanded too much. But by blue "locktiting" the tube in place I found that the .22 power hammer shell was easier to extract. The .22 didn't over expand, especially the crimped end. I liked that because sometimes the .22 case was hard to extract.
So in this rendition, I cut the tube to 3/8" with a tubing cutter. Smeared blue thread locker around the short brass tube and pressed it into the .32 Long Colt case. Yes there is a gap at the bottom, due to the tapper of the case, but it doesn't cause a problem.
The brass tube I bought from Amazon. It is advertised as 9/32 brass tubing. O.D. is .285 I.D. is .246
Another side note. In this process I have been given a .32 rim fire barrel with really good riflings. So the next project is to load for that. What shell holder do you use? I read in one of the rim fire threads about using a bullet sizing die to crimp the bullets into the case, but I can't find that part of the thread. Do you know what to use? I appreciate all the good information on these that you have helped to gather and develop.