Thread: Addicted to Paper Work

Originally Posted by Maca49

Load both 45/70 and 577/450 paper patched, for your paper use old dress patterns, it close to onion paper and comes in diff thicknesses
Max wrap 3 times round, measure the circumference of sized projectile and and multiply for # of wraps, make a pattern out of plastic and cut the paper shape out with a sharp knife/razor, wet and wrap. The girls wrapping for the 577/450 could do about 1200 per day, something to work on. No leaded barrel in theory, I do still size and lube my projectile. Very satisfying.

Good idea on the old pattern. You start looking at paper in a whole new way and find yourself firing everything from baking paper to notepads down your barrel.
I hear some paper can have clay in it so lubing is a good idea.

For my patches (2 wraps) pattern I converted every thing to metric, PIxD+PI(D+2(paper thickness))-0.25mm to allow for the paper bending up onto the 2nd wrap. About this time I was thinking I was a fancypants mathmagician when I got slapped down with the big ol variable that paper stretches when it gets wet. Doh! Got there in the end by rolling a ribbon of paper twice and measuring the required length.

With the 45/70 printer paper works ok so made up a pattern and print out a sheet of them at a time