Prefer .451 or .454 round balls for Remington '58?

[greyhawk]

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 !

[Oregon Bill]

Greyhawk, whose reamer did you use? Something from Brownell's?

[Coffinmaker]

He He He ....... Made ya Look!!   

[greyhawk]

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)

[greyhawk]

He He He ....... Made ya Look!!   

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 ?

[Coffinmaker]

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