I'm assuming ... ugh!
I hate that term!
I try NEVER to assume anything!
Let me try again...
I'm guessing, but it's only a wild guess dontchaknow, that Jawja Tofo means those synthetic cutting boards. Ima gonna try one and keep a close eye on my punches to see if they dull up real quick... I never used one of those synthetic things; I've always used wood cutting boards made the old fashioned way!
As for wad size, it would seem to me that the wads should be made a little oversized. Hummmm, let me think on this for a bit...
Logic tells me the wad will curl up around the ball some when it, the ball that is, is seated on the powder and the powder is compressed, said compression creating a "dimple" in the powder. This action may reduce the diameter of the wad on a 2 dimentional plain...
But then... the compression of the wad could expand the diameter of the wad when considered in one dimention...
And for the life of me I can't think of a way to measure the net gain or loss of the wad's diameter in the chamber...
But wait a sec...
the wads are
1/
8 inch thick and the balls are either swagged or cut to the exact thickness of the chamber...
If the wad is the same diameter as the chamber, when the ball is seated the bottom edge of the wad will curl up on both sides of the ball, and the wad will be compressed in the center and expand the outer edge diameter, making the wad
1/
8 of an inch larger then the chamber all around, or in effect making the wad
1/
4 inch larger then the diameter of the cylinder to begin with!
So maybe we actually need to make the wad smaller then the chamber!
No, wait, that can't be right...
I'm confused...
Thanks a bunch there brother Mason...
You know I won't be able to sleep tonight for thinkin about this stuff dontcha!?