jackie schmidt
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I have taken Panda Barrels, chucked them up and established a 16 tpi over the original 18 tpi to fit in a Remington action. If you didn’t know what...

I have some, but while I can download pictures, the sight will not take videos unless put on YouTube.

It will work just fine.

We are in the Marine Machine Shop Business. We will do anything that comes out of a shipyard, but our specialty is new construction and repair on...

Jim, that lathe, like all of our large machines, sits on a independent pad. The floor of the shop is 12 inches. The 50 foot x 8 foot wide pad that...

Al, in my experience, the answer is no. These lathes are quite substantial in the amount cast iron employed in their construction, making the bed...

Al, you lay a precision straightedge across the ways at each foot with a high resolution level. This gets each foot level side to side. The...

If it has been sitting in the shop a year, that should tell you something. The Panda is a great action. The SG&Y stock is a good design, sort of...

http://benchrest.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=23161&stc=1&d=1575593233 ...

How true. While I have never done it, I have seen Dwayne Pullum win a 300 yard Claybreak shooting his 30BR and your 112’s. In 100/200/300 VFS,...

That’s above my pay grade in the realm of bullet making. It would seem that a harder core would be more difficult to seat and fill the jacket...

Lee, I’m making 112’s on .925 J4 jackets. George said I could make up to about a 135 on a longer jacket in these dies, but I have always had good...

George recommended pure lanolin, that’s what I am using. He sent me some with the dies.

Wayne, the little gear motor turns 30 RPM, which seems about right. When I screw the jar on, I do lock it with a strip of duct tape so it can’t...

Our old shop business office made a great room to make bullets. As you can see, George uses Lee Presses. He modifies the linkage to give more...

Here is mine when we took it out of the oven Thursday. http://benchrest.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=23145&stc=1&d=1575082999

What do you suppose that squeaky clean barrel looks like after the first couple of shots? I say that because I follow Krueger’s recommendation...

I met Terry several times back when Mickey Coleman was having Matches in Alabama at Rachel’s Glenn. Extremely talented craftsman and a great...

Al, you cook it for about 2 hours at 325, it comes out like dressing you are used too, only not as dry. You can stuff some on the bird as well.

Francis, it’s a Hands on Job, or a “hands in” to be specific.;) Glenn, there is a LOT of chicken mixed in. It’s a meal in it’s self.

I don’t think it hurts to stop either the brush or patch jag just as it clears the bore. BUT..... Do not use those long strokes that allow the rod...

This is a simple sketch portable bar to bore a large diameter taper in a large frame. ...

Mort, I have build boring bars that cut the taper in those large rudder frames. Back in the ‘80’s we had a contract with Halter Marine in Mobile...

Try this https://www.nbrsa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/finalcorrected2019-Annual-BOD-meeting-1.pdf

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Yes. We also converted it to a frequency drive system to stop and start it.

I would do a 260 Remington. The 6.5 x 50 is a semi rimmed case, the rim is actually a few thousandths smaller than the standard .473, and about .010...

Nice picture. That is a large rudder that they are machining. I have actually repaired a rudder that large, (it weight 35,000 pounds), but we did...

I am going to try a woven material called Marine Blue. We use it a lot fo non metic bushings. I have on hand Delren, CIP, ( another woven...

Not as much as you think. Large manual lathes are not in that much demand. Many newer ones are converted to CNC if profitable, but the machine has...