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Dean,
It is my understanding that one important differance in the NEW process is 
he
pellets are made from preformed lead balls, which may be pre-sorted for size
prior
to entering the pelletmaking operation versus the normal lead-wire process,
which
must cut to the same length with no control over minor diamter variations 
hat
have significant effect on slug volume.
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Fletcheror wrote:
I have only a rough description. Rudy never patented this equipment and as 
ar
as
I know never made any plans either. The story as told to me is that he had a
feeder machine that cut off a precision amount of lead from a long coil and
fed it
through two contra-rotating plates that he could adjust.
> The precision of the new Crosman pellets are largly the result of the same
> idea. The pellet forming machines depend on a very precise measure of raw
> material. This is why the .22 cal premier and .20 cal are the same weight.
The
> machine tooling cost is in the weight of the feed not the shape of the
> product. The machines can produce virtually any shape as long as it is the
one
> specific weight.
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