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rifle - feel free to join the forums (link in my signature) and ask him yourself - his name there is der Hauptmann. 
Cylinder reamer?
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Chamber reamer etc.
Howdy Y'all,
Just got an Electronic caliper from Midway and have been measuring chamber throats, barrels and slugged bullets from a variety of my sixshooters.
Here's what I've found...
These new Italian guns are being made on pretty darn good machine tools !
I've ordered my guns and cylinders from Taylor's, Midway and Cabela's.
Chamber diameters are very consistent across three Pietta 1860 cylinders (two blue, one stainless) and three Pietta 1858 Remmie cylinders (also two blue and one stainless).
Chamber to chamber variation was around 0.0005 inch!
But...they all were smaller than the grooove diameter of the barrels.
In fact they were just a shade bigger than the Land-to-land diameter. So it looks like I need to open 'em all up about 0.002-0.004 inch.
Now heres something interesting.
My original Uberti Cattleman cylinder, a R&D conversion for my Pietta Colt 1860 and a Kirst Konverter for my Pietta 1858 Remmie All measure exactly 0.452 across the chamber throats !
That's just a hair bigger than the bore groove diameter of the 1858 and the 1860 and they both shoot real good with the cartridge converters in place. The cattleman shoots pretty loose by compairison. I have not slugged it's bore but I'll bet anything it's a larger than 0.452 !
I also have accumulated quite a collection of spare cylinders for both my Colt and Remmie cap and ball pistols. At least six as of now.
So I think I'm gonna be in the market for this chamber reamer !
Is the $ 75.00 price current and is this tool now available ?
What diameter chamber does it cut and is it powered by hand or do you chuck it into a drill or something ?
Happy Trails,
Cincinnati Slim
Howdy Y'all,
Just got an Electronic caliper from Midway and have been measuring chamber throats, barrels and slugged bullets from a variety of my sixshooters.
Here's what I've found...
These new Italian guns are being made on pretty darn good machine tools !
I've ordered my guns and cylinders from Taylor's, Midway and Cabela's.
Chamber diameters are very consistent across three Pietta 1860 cylinders (two blue, one stainless) and three Pietta 1858 Remmie cylinders (also two blue and one stainless).
Chamber to chamber variation was around 0.0005 inch!
But...they all were smaller than the grooove diameter of the barrels.
In fact they were just a shade bigger than the Land-to-land diameter. So it looks like I need to open 'em all up about 0.002-0.004 inch.
Now heres something interesting.
My original Uberti Cattleman cylinder, a R&D conversion for my Pietta Colt 1860 and a Kirst Konverter for my Pietta 1858 Remmie All measure exactly 0.452 across the chamber throats !
That's just a hair bigger than the bore groove diameter of the 1858 and the 1860 and they both shoot real good with the cartridge converters in place.
The cattleman shoots pretty loose by compairison. I have not slugged it's bore but I'll bet anything it's a larger than 0.452 ! I also have accumulated quite a collection of spare cylinders for both my Colt and Remmie cap and ball pistols. At least six as of now.
So I think I'm gonna be in the market for this chamber reamer !
Is the $ 75.00 price current and is this tool now available ?
What diameter chamber does it cut and is it powered by hand or do you chuck it into a drill or something ?
Happy Trails,
Cincinnati Slim
Shes variable, so's ya can cut what ya want. Ya can use in machine er hand, with hand ya gets FEEL fer tha cuttin.
Ifin ya ask tha MANN direct like, he can tell ya!
http://www.bigironbarrels.com/
Ifin ya ask tha MANN direct like, he can tell ya!
http://www.bigironbarrels.com/
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