Based on Lee's* pressure guide...Riddle me this then:
Pure lead = BN 5 === 6,700psi
Yet look at
Post#27 operating more than 20,000psi
Or Lyman#2 at BN 15 === 19,000psi
Yet look at my
Legend operating at more than 40,000psi
While I know where (and have actually
calculated/measured) metal deformation numbers come from,
I've learned take the "working pressure" calculations with a grain of salt. Goes double when PC
(the non-Woke kind
) came on the scene.
* Don't get me wrong... I have great respect for Richard Lee. But empirically I find his numbers very conservative in practice.