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Hi, I recently got my lathe CNCified.
I tried turning a couple of brass bullets and get a nub on the nose while parting off. What do you guys do to avoid this? Do I need to chuck it up and turn it off afterwards?
TIA


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grind your cutoff blade on a angle so the bullet will drop 1st.

If a little nub is left, you can put one of those stickey sanding disk on a flat surface, and gently stroke the nose of the bullet on it.


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If feeding rod stock through the head stock
is what your doing set a tight angle and put a
sharper tapered bit .
Your really going to always have that last little bit.
Thats kinda why i used to run them all through the collet lathe afterwards. Just to touch them all up the same and remove thet nasty
little spots on the ends.

It's a pain but* but if you have the time you can make some darn fine bullets this way.
Also i use 900 grit wet/dry paper and oil to shine then and clean them up alittle more.
 
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Hi, I recently got my lathe CNCified.
I tried turning a couple of brass bullets and get a nub on the nose while parting off. What do you guys do to avoid this? Do I need to chuck it up and turn it off afterwards?
TIA


I have shot a lot of Bridger Bullets with a nub on the bottom. It doesn't hurt anything, and the bullets are very accurate.
 
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500 Grain's is right .
It really dosn't hurt anything to leave it there .

Some folk's just like a really clean looking bullet .
And when your competing in the market place against big name bullet company's every bit helps.... but for your own use hey if the weights right shoot it
 
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Thanks, I'll try that. I was turning them with the base out as I thought having a perfect base would be more important.


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