Can i see some of your tools please?

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skeetlee

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I would like to see some of the tools you fellas have made to help assist you while chambering rifle barrels. I have a couple ideas myself, but i would love to see how you fellas do things. I need a tool to measure my cones with so i can duplicate other barrels that i have. Anything you may have made or bought to help, i would like to see. if you can post a link to something you think i might be interested in, that would be great as well.
I have been practicing every chance i get on my lathe, and i think i am starting to get a real feel for my machine. We are also stripping the old mill and giving it a once over and cleaning everything up best we can. I took the table off tonight and got it cleaned up good. man is that a chunk of steel or what!! I think i pulled something? LOL!!! Thanks Lee
 
Lee:

I have some pictures of my (mostly) shop made tooling here:

http://www.the-long-family.com/tooling.htm

I also made a simple transfer gauge for setting up the barrel tenon/cone dimensions for BAT actions, but have not yet posted these pictures. If you are interested, I can do this in a few days when I get back to the shop.

Hope that this helps!

Cheers,

Chris

www.the-long-family.com
 
Lee here are some of the tools I use, some have been self made the threading tool was purchased

SpiderChuck.jpg

Lathe Spider chuck attached to a D1-6 back plate, it uses 1/2 unf capscrews with brass inserts

Spindlespider.jpg

Spider chuck for outer end of spindle it uses 1/2 unf socket screws machined for brass tip inserts.

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This threads onto the barrel and is used to measure headspace, tenon length and cone depth. I threaded it for the barrel tenon then counterbored the end for a slip fitover the thread and used approx 4-5 threads for engagement on the tenon.

Extended.jpg

Ifanger retractable threading tool. this view the cutting blade is extended

Withdrawn.jpg

In this view the cutting blade is retracted.

Cheers
Ian
 
skeetlee said:
Very nice. Chris, i would love to see more. thanks Lee
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Lee:

I took some pictures today of the BAT tenon and headspace gauge that I made, and posted them on my website at the end of the tooling photo gallery:

http://www.the-long-family.com/tooling.htm

I hope that it shows how the gauge can be set to simulate a reference tenon with zero clearance to the coned bolt nose, and how the plug part of the gauge can be used to measure the barrel tenon cone depth as you machine it to clear the bolt nose. I also use part of it as the headspace measurement ring gauge for my BAT MB action, which has an extended section in front of the receiver ring for more bedding area. The gauge slides down into that section, and allows you to measure a Go gauge referenced to the receiver ring.

Cheers,

Chris
www.the-long-family.com
 
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