Help Found for Cartridge Making
Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 1:55 pm
Maybe this will help someone.
But I am also sure it's old hat to others. I used to spend untold hours with a clip board and razor slicing individual rectangles from measured paper, or, at best, using a paper cutter at work, to manufacture my cartridges. Today I visited a nearby print shop with my three templates hoping at least for copies and a paper cutter. Instead the man took me back inside and demonstrated how his electronic cutter could make untold number of individual sizes, exactly so, with any size and composition of paper I desired. Using my templates, two for a flat based bullet and one for a ring tail, he surrounded the said paper with thick post board, measured it, and cut with absolute precision the number I desired. For free. He told me in response to my question that during the 1860's a similar machine was used, powered by a fly wheel. I would leave valuable appendages in his position so I espesially value this mans careful work.
I know where I am doing this procedure next! (in like a thousand years now)
Gregg
Best, Gregg
But I am also sure it's old hat to others. I used to spend untold hours with a clip board and razor slicing individual rectangles from measured paper, or, at best, using a paper cutter at work, to manufacture my cartridges. Today I visited a nearby print shop with my three templates hoping at least for copies and a paper cutter. Instead the man took me back inside and demonstrated how his electronic cutter could make untold number of individual sizes, exactly so, with any size and composition of paper I desired. Using my templates, two for a flat based bullet and one for a ring tail, he surrounded the said paper with thick post board, measured it, and cut with absolute precision the number I desired. For free. He told me in response to my question that during the 1860's a similar machine was used, powered by a fly wheel. I would leave valuable appendages in his position so I espesially value this mans careful work.
I know where I am doing this procedure next! (in like a thousand years now)
Gregg
Best, Gregg