Rancho Roy Posted January 2, 2015 Posted January 2, 2015 I'm looking for a used, not abused, 44-40 chamber reamerGot one to sell? Cash in hand!Please email me as I can not use this web site at workrvb100@comcast.netThanksRoy BDartmouth, MA
Wagon Box Willy Posted January 2, 2015 Posted January 2, 2015 Roy, is this for that 73 you bought? Are you going to document the work on your blog? Willy
Gawd Awful Posted January 2, 2015 Posted January 2, 2015 Blog??? Always interested in places to learn from, what is the blog sight?
Rancho Roy Posted January 2, 2015 Author Posted January 2, 2015 Yes, I ordered a barrel liner a few minutes ago. If I can't buy a reamer at a reasonable price, I'll just rent one from Reamerrentals.com I'll be sure to take lots of pictures and post it on my web site.
Rancho Roy Posted January 2, 2015 Author Posted January 2, 2015 www.rvbprecision.com Lots of stuff in there about guns, machine tools, etc............Enjoy!
Wolfgang, SASS #53480 Posted January 2, 2015 Posted January 2, 2015 Roy . . . . looks like you are getting ready . . . . . . . . to "resurrect" . . . .
Rancho Roy Posted January 2, 2015 Author Posted January 2, 2015 Yup!...Lathe is all oiled and waiting!....
Gawd Awful Posted January 3, 2015 Posted January 3, 2015 www.rvbprecision.com Lots of stuff in there about guns, machine tools, etc............Enjoy! Thank you. I always like to learn
Lefty Dude, SASS # 51223 Posted January 3, 2015 Posted January 3, 2015 Your 38-40 turned out very well indeed. Looking forward to the 44-40 re-line & chamber.
Springfield Slim SASS #24733 Posted January 4, 2015 Posted January 4, 2015 All reamers are not the same. I rented one to rechamber a couple of 44 special 72 Opentops, and it was cut a bit large with very little taper at the front. It works well to chamber most anything I put in them, but the fired brass is difficult to tell from my wife's 45 colt brass when sorting quickly. A friend of mine wanted to do the same thing, but bought a reamer from Brownells, and his chamber is very tight and won't chamber most of his loads. I measured them both, mine is a couple thou larger than the specs on the SAAMI website, and his is a thou or so under under. Something to look out for, measure first, then cut.
Rancho Roy Posted January 5, 2015 Author Posted January 5, 2015 One of the chamber reamer rental places offers three different size 44-40 readers. I will chamber cast my existing 44-40s before I decide which one to use.
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