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Non-Tech : Sturm, Ruger & Company NYSE: RGR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Daniel Chisholm who wrote (61)	6/2/2000 11:35:00 PM
From: d:oug	Respond to of 87

Daniel, Just to jump ahead first, I see Jack replied to reply that he would rather not drill or bore into this area. If I remember correctly, Jack makes his own knives and some furniture, but leaves it to companies like Sturm Ruger for the guns of desire. <<a gun drill might be quite old>> <<at least for larger guns, drilling is (at least!) several hundred years old.>> Later I must obtain or view a history book on gun making. I remember catalogs from various gun makers also listed books available that describes the long history of their each company. <<"gun drilling" is also used as a general purpose deep hole metal drilling technique.>> Its a collector or antique type book I have, "Making and Shaping of Steel" written by two men about 50 years ago while at a big US steel company, and a picture of big strong massive presses like two rollers used on top of washing machines 100 years ago with a hand crank and one feeds the wet cloth between two rolling pins, but here it was to flatten hot steel into sheets, and each roller had another roller on top of it, about 5 layers, as the book described what was needed to obtain uniform and a constant thickness. So I still cannot imagine how a true path can be made into steel with a long drill bit for a rifle boring after a foot of travel. Seems the drill would bend ever so slightly. Must just read up on it. <<Newton (??) who disproved the caloric theory of heat ... proved the non-existence of the massless substance called "caloric" that represented the amount of heat an object contained... at least for larger guns, drilling is (at least!) several hundred years old.>> Maybe Zeev remembers. Thanks for reply. Doug