Folks, There was a small portion of Ed Wosika's paper patch article in issue #234 that was inadvertently chopped out. Here is the fix:
The end of page 234-13 ends with the phrase, “edge-on to the hypotenuse of the triangle,” and that sentence (to the reader) resumes at the top of page 234-14 with the phrase, “the left and up against the fixed edge of the paper cutter,”. The missing text (from between those two phrases) is shown bolded, below, together with the plain-text lead-in and lead-out: “With the blade of the cutter fully lifted, put a stapled three-strip-stack edge-on to the hypotenuse of the triangle, with the stapled end to the left. Slide the strip stack to the right and up-against the hypotenuse of the triangle until both of the corners of the stack (on the right end) extend just beyond the blade, as shown in Figure 4. Cut off both protruding corners. You are now ready to cut finished trapezoidal strips by the handful. Put a mark on your wooden pencil a distance from the end of the eraser equal to the desired patch length on the bullet plus 40% of the bullet diameter, as shown in the left image in Figure 4. Thus, for a 0.7-inch long patch in 30-caliber, the mark would be 0.712-inch from the end of the eraser <(0.7+(0.4x0.3) = (0.7+0.012) = 0.712>. The idea is to have the patch extend beyond the base of the PPCB core enough to not quite reach the center of the bullet when you fold the extending skirt over the base of the bullet and apply the pleating. To measure the width of each stack of three patches, prior to cutting it off, hold the pencil with the eraser end to . . .the left and up against the fixed edge of the paper cutter, right where the just-cut end of the stack-of-three is located. Slide the stack-of-three out until its extending edge meets your reference mark (on the pencil), as shown in the middle image in Figure 4.”
Glenn R. Latham, Editor
