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Shanghai Jack
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Probably just dense but I've been reading a few threads that mention nibbing- anyone explain it in simple terms. Thanks
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Jam a tight slightly tapered plug into a case mouth held in a tight fitting ring. Then, pull the plug out. It will drag the brass with it a bit, lengthening the case and thinning the brass in the process. Repeat for more stretching. A slow and tedious, but effective way to lengthen a case a few thousandths of an inch if it's slightly short for the chamber.
Another technique that may be called the same is as follows:
Press the case into a tight ring. Spin the case in the lathe, and use a rounded form tool inside the case to press the brass against the ring. Slowly withdraw the form tool, forming and lengthing the brass. Similarly, press the case onto a close fitting arbor, and spin it in the lathe. Use a rounded button form tool on the outside of the case to flow brass toward the mouth, as you spin the mandrel/case in the lathe.
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Thanks Dave - anyone got any pictures?
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Here's a couple of pics of tooling I've made for nibbing. The first was a die and a small ball silver soldered to a rod that I used for lengthening cases. Not my favorite way. The second pic is using a mandrel, a smooth roller in a knurling holder. This method works a little better. With quite a bit of experimenting, developing a method and then following it, a little blood sweat and tears and you can make brass grow a quarter to half an inch. Do this to a dozen cases and you'll ask yourself why???
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GT wrote
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Here's a couple of pics of tooling I've made for nibbing. The first was a die and a small ball silver soldered to a rod that I used for lengthening cases. Not my favorite way. The second pic is using a mandrel, a smooth roller in a knurling holder. This method works a little better. With quite a bit of experimenting, developing a method and then following it, a little blood sweat and tears and you can make brass grow a quarter to half an inch. Do this to a dozen cases and you'll ask yourself why???
GT
I wonder how Buffalo arms took the 45-70 Remington brass and stretched it from 2.1"to 2.4" before Starline got into the picture?
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Click on the following link then page down to "Lengthening Brass with a Lathe"
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Old-Win wrote
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GT wrote
yesterday
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Here's a couple of pics of tooling I've made for nibbing. The first was a die and a small ball silver soldered to a rod that I used for lengthening cases. Not my favorite way. The second pic is using a mandrel, a smooth roller in a knurling holder. This method works a little better. With quite a bit of experimenting, developing a method and then following it, a little blood sweat and tears and you can make brass grow a quarter to half an inch. Do this to a dozen cases and you'll ask yourself why???
GT
I wonder how Buffalo arms took the 45-70 Remington brass and stretched it from 2.1"to 2.4" before Starline got into the picture?
At the time, they (BAC) called their re-worked 45-70 to 45-90's "drawn". That ended when Remington 45-70 bulk cases were no longer available to them.
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I used to have a Shiloh in 40/90 straight. BACO sold cases
At 3.25” long and we’re headstamped 405 basic. There where made
The way Greg is doing it , but all the case mouths varied in thickness. Some very thin and lots of cases separations. At 4.00 each , I had Shiloh rebaerrel it
To 45-90.
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