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I wonder if a replacement WH heating element or old water heater could be used to get the coolant hot enough to sterilize it?

C4HD will make bump dies. You need to call them on the phone and talk to one of the tech guys.

The stories about Remington using Loctite on barrels start to make more sense now...

If you run out of shoulder you can always thread the outside of the barrel and make a nut like Savage uses.

I prefer that kind of reamer holder It lets me tell if I'm crowding the reamer, if there's a hard spot in the barrel, or if a chip is caught under a flute.

A horizontal mill's main purpose was to remove vast quantities of metal, and to use custom-made form cutters to make shapes. The inside part of the extractor of a 1903 Springfield, for example, was made with a stack of custom cutters that ran crosswise and cut the entire inner shape in one...

You might get better bang for your bucks by investing in some reloading equipment and some slug molds. Then you could find what your gun likes and load as much of that as you want. Have you managed to recover any of the slugs intact? So they show any signs of the rifling being stripped...

Pac-Nor also does them.

I'd pick one cartridge and stay with that. Expand your offerings later. You *will* get castings with bubbles. If the castings are decent there won't be many and they can be welded up. You'll need to find someone experienced in cosmetic TIG welding. You'll also need a heat treater that...

I'm building my first switchbarrel now. I guess I have an overly-simplistic view of torque - my plan is to start at some small figure, fire a string, snug it up some more, fire, etc. until further tightening shows no change. Why guess when you can collect your own data?