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South Bend Repica's on "how it's made"
« on: May 10, 2012, 07:14:20 PM »
South was on this evenings "How it's Made" on Science channel. 

They showed, moulding, pouring, shot blasting, cutting away excess sprue, turning exterior, grinding,  boring, lining, painting and firing all in about 8 minutes.

The boring and inserting of lining was very interesting.  They showed shots of tooling and lathe set up in the lathe-big steady rest.  The epoxy was applied down the bore and liner was inserted.  Everything was put back in lathe.  The barrel was rotated and the tail stock was used to force the the liner home. A fixture on the tail stock kept the liner for turning as it was seated into the spinning barrel.  They explained this spread the  epoxy completely between barrel and liner and released air.


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Re: South Bend Repica's on "how it's made"
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2012, 07:31:05 PM »
How did they release the air?

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Re: South Bend Repica's on "how it's made"
« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2012, 03:39:16 AM »
A fixture on the tail stock kept the liner for turning as it was seated into the spinning barrel.  They explained this spread the  epoxy completely between barrel and liner and released air.

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Re: South Bend Repica's on "how it's made"
« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2012, 05:03:31 AM »
Amazon has the video of " How Its Made - Season 12 - Episode 3 "  Just  watched it for $1.99 .  The South Bend cannons is on last and is well done.  http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0080CL2J8

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Re: South Bend Repica's on "how it's made"
« Reply #4 on: May 28, 2012, 12:24:40 PM »
How it's made will rerun this episode tonight on the science channel at 7 PM mountain time.

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Re: South Bend Repica's on "how it's made"
« Reply #5 on: May 28, 2012, 02:03:09 PM »
6 and 9 pm pacific time.
I may not be completely sane, but at least I don't think I have the power to influence the weather.

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Re: South Bend Repica's on "how it's made"
« Reply #6 on: May 28, 2012, 06:03:18 PM »
A fixture on the tail stock kept the liner for turning as it was seated into the spinning barrel.  They explained this spread the  epoxy completely between barrel and liner and released air.

Just watched this again.  They did not say anything about air being released.