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<blockquote data-quote="Bart B" data-source="post: 105541" data-attributes="member: 5302"><p>[ QUOTE ]</p><p>However you friend must have spent a while heating the whole barrel or did he do it in sections and push the bullet in segments as he heated it?</p><p></p><p>Sorry for stepping on your toes I wont do it again. </p><p></p><p>[/ QUOTE ]You didn't step on my toes. You did bring up a good point about what I said and I corrected it.</p><p></p><p>Regarding barrel heating, my friend heated. . .er... warmed up all of the barrel, then pushed the bullet out the lightly lubed bore.</p><p></p><p>I don't know how much the bore enlarged but a demonstration of the same thing was given to me by a machinist. He had a 2-inch long steel bar 3/4ths inch in diameter. Inside was a 1/4th inch diameter steel rod marked "0.250000 in." One couldn't push the rod out of the bar until it was held in your hand for about 10 minutes. That heated up the bar enough so the rod could be pushed out of the ever so slightly enlarged hole in it. I asked how much the bar's hole enlarged and he said about one ten-thousandth of an inch. </p><p></p><p>After the bar cooled down to ambient temperature the rod could not be pushed into it. The bar had to be warmed up before the rod would go in the hole. The surfaces of the rod and hole in the bar must have been as smooth and perfect as high-end gage blocks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bart B, post: 105541, member: 5302"] [ QUOTE ] However you friend must have spent a while heating the whole barrel or did he do it in sections and push the bullet in segments as he heated it? Sorry for stepping on your toes I wont do it again. [/ QUOTE ]You didn't step on my toes. You did bring up a good point about what I said and I corrected it. Regarding barrel heating, my friend heated. . .er... warmed up all of the barrel, then pushed the bullet out the lightly lubed bore. I don't know how much the bore enlarged but a demonstration of the same thing was given to me by a machinist. He had a 2-inch long steel bar 3/4ths inch in diameter. Inside was a 1/4th inch diameter steel rod marked "0.250000 in." One couldn't push the rod out of the bar until it was held in your hand for about 10 minutes. That heated up the bar enough so the rod could be pushed out of the ever so slightly enlarged hole in it. I asked how much the bar's hole enlarged and he said about one ten-thousandth of an inch. After the bar cooled down to ambient temperature the rod could not be pushed into it. The bar had to be warmed up before the rod would go in the hole. The surfaces of the rod and hole in the bar must have been as smooth and perfect as high-end gage blocks. [/QUOTE]
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