Not a Happy Chappy!

[muffett.2008]

Yeah Cinders, I know it's a light load, the thinking is to match the velocity to the original to get correct scope adjustment.
I'm afraid I put no store in computer generated load programs, the variations of barrels/wear and shooting conditions, weather/temp. really blow the ideal world away.
My competition loads are more realistic as my trophy collection can testify, my heavier loads do not get posted on the forums, but there is several of the better testing programs I have done on Gunboards on old posts.

Surp' , I tried that trick, my block is actually a knurled metal one to match the locking rim.
I let it soak overnight and tried again. My fancy tool did the job.
There are a lot of expressions that can be used, just a few nice ones come to mind........Murphy had the day off......there really is a God.....the Gods love me......and for the athiests among us.....thank ffing C for that.
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The lens were seperated but intact, the strange appearance was where lines of Balsam crisscrossed the surface.
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My guess is that this lens has been glued before, I say that because the lens's started to clean up with Metho, this type job usually requires Acetone, which I ended up using to clean the rough pattern of original glue which was the crazing that had me thinking fracture.
So now I just need to reglue and reassemble........well maybe a few reglue attempts, getting a bubble free bond is always fun, or has been in the past.

P.S I found the reason for the velocity variation, my excuse is old timers, Pete L. would say we aren't to bright , that's why they sent us here, but I reckon if you are from down under, it's hard to remember everything when you are upside down and the bloods rushing to the head..........different case capacity.