1940 cartridge manufacturing - video

[Jon]

1940 cartridge manufacturing. 2:20 video:

Previously:

Cartridge center punch - video
Cartridge disassembly tool - GIF
Starting a tractor with a shotgun cartridge - video and photos

[hemmjo]

Fascinating. I especially like how the lead cores were made by first squeezing that chunk of lead like toothpaste from a tube.

[NeiljohnUK]

Ah .303, interesting to see the cases simply drawn and stamped, unlike 7.62 Nato (.308 Win near as) no need for a lathe to cut an extractor groove.

[Toolmaker51]

I can relay, being geographically close to a government arsenal, this film and modern day aren't so different.
What is remarkable, a very high percentage of equipment at LC site is the same, installed 80+ years ago, talk about maintenance!. Production there is around 1.6 billion cartridges per year, incalculable scale of actual output.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_C...munition_Plant