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- From: toby@stein.u.washington.edu (Toby Bradshaw)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: inside turning brass
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.015822.18370@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 15:05:22 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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- In article <BzMFsu.Fnx@news.cso.uiuc.edu> cbl@uihepa.hep.uiuc.edu (Chris Luchini) writes:
- #I've got this barrel in a wild cat 6mm-284. My problem is that the
- #neck thickness variation is 0.008-0.012.
-
- Are we talking just thickness variation or neck wall runout (out-of-
- round)? If the necks are round, but vary in thickness, you can
- outside neck turn or inside neck ream. Outside neck turning
- is preferred by benchresters for most purposes (I just turned
- 60 necks for my 6PPC; every time I think about neck turning
- for a hunting rifle I remind myself how much I hate brass prep).
- If you have 8-12 thou runout, the brass is junk. It happens, though.
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- #Precision shooting claims
- #that thickness variation only gets worse as one gets closer to the
- #case head. I've thought of necking the brass up to basic size (ie
- #making it a straight cylinder) and then forcing it into a
- #die, and then inside turning it to a consistant diameter all the way
- #to the head. Does anyone do anything like this to match brass?
-
- Yes, the technical term is "masochist" :)
-
- I bet it would be cheaper to find some good brass in the
- big 6mm of your choice and have your rifle rechambered for
- it than bore out existing cases and re-form them to 6/284.
- You could take a ball mike to the local gun store and check
- out the 284 brass they have. _Anything_ but what you
- have outlined would be cheaper. I recently bought some
- .270 brass (happened to be Winchester) for my Dad's rifle
- and the worst case had less than .002 runout at the neck, and
- all the cases were within 2 grains of being the same weight.
- Commercial brass, at least some of it, is pretty damn good
- right off the shelf. The Remington .308 benchrest case could
- be used for a checkweight on a balance if the stuff I looked
- at is any guide. Makes me wonder why I pay $1 apiece for PPC brass.
-
- #The implication in some of the articles/letters in the Best of...
- #was that something like what I describe above is done.
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- That makes benchrest machinists/shooters even crazier than
- the typical Usenet reader ... scary :)
-
- #Do you know of anyone who would offer this as a commercial service,
- #for 284 brass?
-
- Sure. Mastercard and Visa accepted with suitable collateral :)
-
- Toby Bradshaw
- Department of Biochemistry and College of Forest Resources
- University of Washington, Seattle
- toby@u.washington.edu
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- where a child might read it?
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