People are miss-applying the Cheddite brand name to hulls not compression formed. I stole this from another site, posted by a person who goes by “Crown Grade.”
“Reifenhauser is not a brand of hull or a manufacturer, it is a type of hull. All straight wall/parallel hulls are Reifenhauser. There are basicly 2 types of hulls, one piece "Compression formed", straight wall separate base wad hulls, "Reifenhauser". However there are a few hybrids, the AAHS is kind of a parallel wall hull with a more or less compression formed base wad in it making is similar to both is many ways. The other is the "Gordon" style hull. It has a base wad that squashes supposedly making them shoot softer. The remainder of the hull is indeed straight wall Reifenhauser design.”
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“It's named after
Reifenhäuser, a German
manufacturer of plastics molding machinery which developed the first successful process in the 1950's for extruding plastic into tubes with the tensile strength to withstand the heat and pressure of shotshells.”
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Some additional reading, but cannot vouch for writer’s credentials or the technical accuracy of his statements.
This topic causes no end of confusion. One of the main confusers is the Federal “PB” designation…BPI uses Federal “PB” to refer to a particular “plastic basewad&…
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Perhaps it Is easier to spell Chedditte than it is Reifenhauser. As Crown Grade said, not all tissue paper is Kleenex.
