Author Topic: Prefer .451 or .454 round balls for Remington '58?  (Read 7189 times)

Offline greyhawk

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Re: Prefer .451 or .454 round balls for Remington '58?
« Reply #20 on: February 09, 2019, 10:06:34 PM »
I have a vise that bolts to the drill press,,I also reduced the end of the reamer to where it would center itself in the cylinder mouth  before tightening everything down . ..Gave it a few  shots of oil and it was like drilling butter.

Did mine by hand ---not as brave as you guys - got a drill press and a mill - just figured too many things could go wrong while I was trying to cut the power !

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Re: Prefer .451 or .454 round balls for Remington '58?
« Reply #21 on: February 10, 2019, 10:09:18 AM »
Greyhawk, whose reamer did you use? Something from Brownell's?

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Re: Prefer .451 or .454 round balls for Remington '58?
« Reply #22 on: February 10, 2019, 11:18:06 AM »

He He He ....... Made ya Look!!   :o

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Re: Prefer .451 or .454 round balls for Remington '58?
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Re: Prefer .451 or .454 round balls for Remington '58?
« Reply #23 on: February 10, 2019, 05:04:50 PM »
Greyhawk, whose reamer did you use? Something from Brownell's?

Made it out of a High Tensile bolt - used the one with the three bars on the head - grade three or five??? They are just high tensile steel - easy to heat treat - the grade 8 bolts are alloy steel - not hard enough as they come and very tricky to heat treat. 

(I think a huge dose of dumb luck was involved in that project)

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Re: Prefer .451 or .454 round balls for Remington '58?
« Reply #24 on: February 10, 2019, 05:23:23 PM »
He He He ....... Made ya Look!!   :o


ARRRRRghh - Ya been penned up too long in that cold cabin - ya need a challenge ----trickin me is just tooooo easy !!!


Hey - the first Pedersoli ball mold I bought was makin lopsided balls - one half of the mold was cut .462, tother half was cut . 457
I put a 5 thou steel shim between the blocks and it fixed it - got right sized balls - complained to the dealer and he swapped me for a .464 (what I really wanted anyways) - been trying to figure out how that could happen on the assembly line ? the blocks were perfectly machined outside and the mold was a dream to use (even better with my shim in in - I didnt think that would work at all but it did)
I dunno how they machine these round molds was it just a simple glitch or did someone mess up in the packing department ?

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Re: Prefer .451 or .454 round balls for Remington '58?
« Reply #25 on: February 11, 2019, 09:36:15 AM »

Somebody in assembly, packing and shipping didn't pay attention.

 

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