Evening All; This supposedly one ragged hole at 300 meters barrel is a P.O.S., but the final judgement will be the target of course.
So far I've made 2 catheads, and I've spent the last two days hunting for the center of the bore on the butt end of the barrel, and I just now came to the conclusion that I'd be dumb and happy if the carthead had thick enough walls that the centering bolts couldn't distort it from the tension from the 4, 8mm brass bolts used as centering bolts. I very carefully machined a track where the steady shoes would ride, and mine is like all the other steady's, 3 shoes. I put that track about an inch back from the centering bolts. I started to make a cut to clean it back to round with the bolts tight, as in about 1/4 turn from stripped. But after watching it bounce from shoe to shoe because its now 4 cornered about 5 thou, and the shoes are riding it hard enough to heat pretty good despite a coat of lithium based chassis grease, I came to the conclusion I should stick a bullet into it far enough I had a smooth surface to put the dial finger on. So I ran the reamer in to the end of the cartridge neck, letting it guide itself. Insert bullet, probe it, needle going 8 to 10 thou crazy at 75 rpms. Several times a revolution. Its the 3 shoes bouncing off the high points created by the 4 bolts bolt tension. So tommorrow, I'll put a live center in it, any damage that does will be removed by the reamer anyway, and loosen the steady & move it out of the way, and see if I can then "fix" the steady track on the cathead with the barrel still in it. This ought to be fun. Not... Anybody else have a better idea short of making yet another new cathead out of a considerably thicker walled pipe? Thanks guys. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
