Indicating rods:

[Pete Wass]

I am nearly all geared up to do barrel chambering. I have a Range Rod I bought years ago. When I bought it, I remember there being two kinds, one to use in barrels without chambers and one to be used in barrels that have chambers.

Question: Is the rod that is to be used with barrels with chambers reallly necessary or will the range rod do the job?

Thsnks,

Pete

 

[frwillia]

I use a Grizzly rod to align barrel blanks, Three of them and the bushing off the reamer for the current project cover anything I want to do, but I have used a range rod in the muzzle a few times. If you are doing this for your self (which I am) I'd wait and see if you need to align a chambered barrel. If you do, then get the Indicator rod.

Mentioning this may cause a stir, but the one time I had to put a chambered barrel back in the lathe I aligned it with the indicator on the reamer shank ahead of and behind the flat spot. It was a bit fussy, and I backed it up by checking the tenon shoulder and tenon itself (they were both within a tenth), but worked just fine.

Fitch

 

[Pete Wass]

I use a Grizzly rod to align barrel blanks, Three of them and the bushing off the reamer for the current project cover anything I want to do, but I have used a range rod in the muzzle a few times. If you are doing this for your self (which I am) I'd wait and see if you need to align a chambered barrel. If you do, then get the Indicator rod.

Mentioning this may cause a stir, but the one time I had to put a chambered barrel back in the lathe I aligned it with the indicator on the reamer shank ahead of and behind the flat spot. It was a bit fussy, and I backed it up by checking the tenon shoulder and tenon itself (they were both within a tenth), but worked just fine.

Fitch

Thank You. I had not considered that.