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Mon Jun 29, 2009 7:58 am
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Mon Jun 29, 2009 11:15 am
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That is a nice looking tool, but I think the old wood dowel, clamped in the vice will work much better and faster. In fact I'm sure I can trim 3 times as many hulls with the dowel in the vise, as you can with that tool.
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Mon Jun 29, 2009 12:21 pm
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Mon Jun 29, 2009 12:24 pm
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| mike campbell wrote: |
No matter how slick you make a hand tool....it's still a hand tool. Which means I'm not likely to do more than a couple dozen before my fingers cramp up. And If I'm only gonna do 25 in an evening, a razor blade and a piece of copper tubing is efficient enough.
The technology differences between all the single case trimmers I've seen pales in comparison to loading 10 empties into a wooden jig and sliding it through a table saw . Trimming 10 hulls to the identical length in 10 seconds....that's a step up.
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Mike, got any pictures of your jig! |
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Mon Jun 29, 2009 3:46 pm
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| mike campbell wrote: |
The technology differences between all the single case trimmers I've seen pales in comparison to loading 10 empties into a wooden jig and sliding it through a table saw . Trimming 10 hulls to the identical length in 10 seconds....that's a step up.
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Mike, why stop at 10? I do like that idea. It's too bad I'm at work right now or I'd be in the shop with a piece of wood and a forstner bit.... |
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Mon Jun 29, 2009 4:45 pm
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Mon Jun 29, 2009 4:52 pm
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LMAO Mike, you made my day...
Nothing like good old Yankee ingenuity. |
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Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:05 pm
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I would think the saw would make a horrible cut? Your picture looks pretty smooth?
I use PR tool now, much better than BPI's. |
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Mon Jun 29, 2009 8:00 pm
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Mon Jun 29, 2009 8:05 pm
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| Mike, thanks for the pictures. Very clever! |
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Mon Jun 29, 2009 10:11 pm
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| shootingsioux wrote: |
One fellow on that other forum makes a good point about roller-type cutters. They really do a better job on paper hulls, compared to a modified Ballistic Products unit, or the Xacto blade and dowel unit. I really like the Xacto blade and dowel device for plastic, but paper being more fibrous does not shear off as nicely with a blade edgewise to the workpiece. A rolling edge normal to the hull surface works best. The Balistic Products trimmer with the blade normal to the work surface is the next best thing, but it is still second best.
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Tony try substituting a single edge razor blade for the Xacto blade. It is sharper, thiner and makes a much neater cut on paper hulls. You will have to cut a thin notch with a coping saw about half way through the dowel and set the blade at a slight angle but otherwise it works the same as the Xacto blade set up.
I believe he said that you could buy the cutters at Home Depot. |
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Thu Jul 02, 2009 7:04 am
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| I use a jig similar to Mike's except it just has a single hole. It's just a short piece of 2 x 4 with a single hole near the end, clamped vertically in a vise, and I just cut the hull off with a cut off blade in a dremel tool out the other side. It doesn't get much more simple. |
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