The fine art of neck turning

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I find this method to be best for me variation of neck thickness is less than 0.0005, and its fairly quick to do.
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well, on all brass I have turned with a K+M turner using the shell holder mounted on a slow rpm drill and cutter in my other hand I get less than 0,0001 variation on the whole batch

keep in mind brass will flow ahead when firing and body sizing and aomeday you to turn again or ream the doghnut inside. I reseze only 80% of neck so it gives me time to see it comming

the re are many turners that work alot faster than mine, but honestly never hear of wone doing a better job
 
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Now clear you are neck turning on a mill
Good stuff, above the average handloaders budget
I guess i’ll stick to forster neck turning for now
 
I'd be really interested to see the runout on the base of the case held like that.

Betcha it hula's around like a beach bunny in a '50's surfer movie!
 
kawicrash said:
That's actually a lathe.
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Yes thanks for the correction, english is not my first language here and i often search for words in specialized tooling and gear.


trevj said:
I'd be really interested to see the runout on the base of the case held like that.

Betcha it hula's around like a beach bunny in a '50's surfer movie!
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Yep now that you mention it there is not much that can be done for case alignment in this setup.
 
Using my lathe I have roughed turned some 358 brass the I made from 30-06 a few years ago and was only somewhat impressed with the run out. Once I fire formed them and trued them in my Lyman setup they turned (no pun intended) out to much better.
Using the lathe did the job to reduce neck thickness for sure.
David
 
The system works well as the neck is inserted into the correct caliber guide in the neck turner.
Everything is centered as you turn it , works for me.
Enjoy, and this is only used for target shooting.
 
Lathe's work and consistently hold tighter run out.

your set up works, this video shows the the chuck holding the turner and the case being feed into the turner

P.S. The video is from Mike Bryant


All the Best
Trevor
 
seriously over kill. i am one of those people who own a tight neck 22-250 and do this constantly to ever piece of brass. The hands on one at time gives me the extra time to inspect and check case, annealing etc. I can feel my cutter hit the neck and the pressure changes as it turns another reason to inspect case. Its about quality and consistent ammunition, that's the bottom line. IMHO
 
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