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Mitty38

Mitty38

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Trying to help my brother figure out how to get brass just right for his 30 40 krag.it keeps cracking. we got 4 g good ones formed out of 10 . thinking neck turning next. The thinner ones seam to be formhing better. I had about 200 303 so thats what we are going with. Comming up 005ish short but he is not hot rodding the old remington. should be ok.i had thought it should be a little long and i would trim it
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smokeywolf

smokeywolf

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Had to drive to Little Rock today. Mrs. smokeywolf will have an "ablation" to hopefully correct her Atrial Flutter, at the Arkansas Heart Hospital in about 2 weeks. Met with the surgeon today. She has to get off the anti-arrhythmic drug, as it's damaging her lungs.

On a topic more in line with the forum; just got a nice box full of 45 ACP brass from Starline. Website showed "backordered", but showed up on my doorstep 3 days later.
 
JWFilips

JWFilips

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Thanks Guys
I try to do my best.....Use a stop watch running thru each casting session! Actually I favor to cut the sprew quicker but I know I need to wait longer.
But with a 3 hole Waiting means using the hickory rod on the spew plate ! Not a fan of that ...Rather feel the cut with my left hand!
My buddy loves my casts and I see from his shooting ...they shoot pretty darn good..... but he is responsible for that part!
 
RBHarter

RBHarter

West Central AR
Mitty38 said:
Trying to help my brother figure out how to get brass just right for his 30 40 crag keeps cracking. we got 4 g good ones formed out of 10 . thinking neck turning next. The thinner ones seam to be formhing better. I had about 200 303 so thats what we are going with. Comming up 005ish short but he is not hot rodding the old remington. should be ok.i had thought it should be a little long and i would trin but no
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Awkward thing about 303 & 30-40 , I have some 30-40 I converted for 410 in a tight gun it won't battery where the 303 would . Its not much , .0015 maybe .
 
Mitty38

Mitty38

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RBHarter said:
Awkward thing about 303 & 30-40 , I have some 30-40 I converted for 410 in a tight gun it won't battery where the 303 would . Its not much , .0015 maybe .
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First time i tried forming definatly a learning curve, and also loss product to be factured in!
 
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JustJim

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Ole_270 said:
Tried the wrist braces, didn't seem to work. Thing that has me worried most, other than the timing, is that electric speed test. Heard it can be pretty rough. my limited understanding is they place probes on the nerve at several locations up and down the arm from neck to fingers, then run an electrical charge down the nerve to test speed. Where it slows down is where the damage is. Told my brother that maybe if I grab the tech by the crotch he'd be more careful about how big a shock he gives me.
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Ole_270, the test isn't that bad. Low voltage, you hardly feel it. The probes are a little uncomfortable, but that is more the idea of it than actual pain. The neuro did the actual test on me (tech was out that day) and even he couldn't screw it up too much.

Good luck!
 
KeithB

KeithB

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Just got five new 3/8-24 spiral flute taps and an ER32 tap collet for same delivered. An eBay purchase from two different vendors arrives on the same truck together, what are the odds? A tap collet has a square hole in the base to positively grab the end of the tap to prevent slipping, it's not dependent on friction to drive it. We just tapped 60 stainless steel nuts and went through 4 taps. Any slippage of the tap in the holder while your power tapping on a CNC machine at 600 rpm leads to instant destruction and the creation of a certain amount shrapnel. I'm hoping this collet will improve things.

Got eight 13" steel rims that I plan to do some welding on this weekend. Going to make some movable stands to support some shower curtains as chip and overspray barriers around a couple machines.

Cleaned up the radial arm drill this afternoon, using a holesaw make lots of fine saw type particles as waste, a lot harder to clean up than curly drill type chips. Going to pump out the coolant tank tomorrow, it's rancid and nasty. Aah, the glamorous life of a small shop owner...
 
smokeywolf

smokeywolf

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KeithB said:
Going to pump out the coolant tank tomorrow, it's rancid and nasty.
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Running soluble? I know it goes rancid in comparably short time, but it's what I've always used in sumps.

Keith, what percent thread are you trying to produce in those stainless nuts. Unless there is a non-standard feature on them (thickness, outer size/shape), a bit surprised you can't buy 3/8-24 stainless nuts cheaper than the material, tooling, electricity and man-hours it takes to machine them.
 
fiver

fiver

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Lyman makes a real nice 41 mag wad cutter mold too.
it has a tiny little button nose, still cut's nice round holes in targets, kills the crap out of bunny's too.

went for a short ride again, ended up spending about 2.5hrs. talking to some of the locals up on top and exchanging quite a bit of information back and forth about what and where everyone and everything was hanging out recently.
there ended up being about 7-8 of us parked up there after a bit.

to top it off some OOS retard drove a nearly new Honda car up to where I park my truck.
I don't know how he got it up there, or if it will have enough parts left underneath it to make it back down,,,, but there it was.
that was the first thing everyone mentioned when they rolled up.
 
KeithB

KeithB

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It’s a special shaped nut or I would. We have a job coming up where we’re going to buy SS bolts and drill and tap an axial hole and a cross hole for a grease fitting. I worked with our customer to use a standard $0.60 fastener requiring $3 worth of labor instead of special design I would have to charge $12 - $15 for.

it does use soluble oil but it was out of service for a long while, there’s a lot of old dried oil that come out when we add new coolant. We have cleaned out about everything we can and each time it takes longer to foul but it still happens.
 
smokeywolf

smokeywolf

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popper said:
Smokywolf it's not a bad deal, had it done 15 or so yrs ago. And you can get off warfin!! Yea.
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She's not on an anti-clotting such as Warfarin/Coumadin, but an anti-arrhythmic that has a somewhat high incidence of damaging lungs, liver and thyroid.
Gotta get her off it, as some of the damage to her lungs is permanent.

Surgeon is kind of a young looking whipper-snapper, but has done about 300 of these procedures. Recently came from Dallas.
 
Bret4207

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Mitty38 said:
Trying to help my brother figure out how to get brass just right for his 30 40 krag.it keeps cracking. we got 4 g good ones formed out of 10 . thinking neck turning next. The thinner ones seam to be formhing better. I had about 200 303 so thats what we are going with. Comming up 005ish short but he is not hot rodding the old remington. should be ok.i had thought it should be a little long and i would trim it
but no
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Anneal them. If that old 303 brass "pings" if you drop it, it surely needs annealing before you try and form it. Chances are just annealing the forward 1/3 of the case will solve your issues. As with most things, I tend to "get a bigger hammer" and do at least half the case, but it's often not needed. That shoulder/neck area is the common spot for trouble to show up.
 
Bret4207

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
KeithB said:
Just got five new 3/8-24 spiral flute taps and an ER32 tap collet for same delivered. An eBay purchase from two different vendors arrives on the same truck together, what are the odds? A tap collet has a square hole in the base to positively grab the end of the tap to prevent slipping, it's not dependent on friction to drive it. We just tapped 60 stainless steel nuts and went through 4 taps. Any slippage of the tap in the holder while your power tapping on a CNC machine at 600 rpm leads to instant destruction and the creation of a certain amount shrapnel. I'm hoping this collet will improve things.
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Wouldn't a tapping head be the answer? Also, I've seen what amounts to a spin on remote oil filter kit for filtering cutting lubes, might be an idea.
 
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Bret4207

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Drat, drat and double DRAT!!! The weather was supposed to be clear and warm for almost 5 days. LIARS! Things are getting real tight in the hay dept. Not good.

Gord is starting training on running the lathes at work. I'm more than a little concerned about his measuring skills, but I'm not the guy teaching him. Boy have they got some nice stuff though!

New puppy is driving me nuts, but she's a cute little bugger. A pure white German Shepherd called Freya.

Neighbors Yaks were out yesterday. Another call to the police. Got a Trooper I'd never met this time, nice kid. Got on their butts big time. I hate having to call in stuff like that because I know what a pain in the backside it is when there's real cop work to be done, but it is what it is. Good thing Gord left the key to the ATV or I'd never have been able to drive them out. Then I had to chase all the goats and sheep and restring fence and corral all them back up. All because some NJ transplants won't feed and water their livestock!
 
Mitty38

Mitty38

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Bret4207 said:
Anneal them. If that old 303 brass "pings" if you drop it, it surely needs annealing before you try and form it. Chances are just annealing the forward 1/3 of the case will solve your issues. As with most things, I tend to "get a bigger hammer" and do at least half the case, but it's often not needed. That shoulder/neck area is the common spot for trouble to show up.
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Bret4207 said:
Anneal them. If that old 303 brass "pings" if you drop it, it surely needs annealing before you try and form it. Chances are just annealing the forward 1/3 of the case will solve your issues. As with most things, I tend to "get a bigger hammer" and do at least half the case, but it's often not needed. That shoulder/neck area is the common spot for trouble to show up.
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Thanks for the heads up! I was just annealing the very top. It pings. Got 10 done that are right enough. I have 180 more to go, so going to give a more aggressive anneal a try. Going back over there later.
 
Bret4207

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
How are you annealing them? I usually watch the colors change, like tempering steel. Usually you can watch the shade change as the heat travels.
 
Bret4207

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Raked hay, if the night isn't one with a real heavy dew I should be able to bale tomorrow.

Gord says the Yaks are on the loose again. Sigh.........
 
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