GeneT
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On the other hand, if you plug those holes with shrapnel, or, say, a Sako extractor, it could become unsafe - nothing to do with the bolt itself...

I am very impressed by the video you linked a few posts down in the other thread. Your men barely utter a word between them, each man doing exactly...

Bandsaw / hacksaw what you can, then course rasps and rifflers followed by progressively finer files. Vixen / Vixie files work well too, but I've...

I'm not sure that they still do it, but Sandvik used to send out a nice hardbound book on cutting tools and inserts - that went miles toward allowing...

I think Steve Acker ("Gunsmith Machinist" from the Village Press Mags - Home Shop Machinist and Machinist's Workshop) did something very similar in a...

Dan, is that any Sako extractor conversion? I've wondered about them, but you're in a position to see many more than I ever will... GsT

I have not found threads in 12L14 to strip out any more readily than those in mild steel. "What to you is moderate tension" is meaningless and...