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Chad it sounds like you've got it sorted out mate. In my experience reaming is only ever sucessfull as a "finishing" operation. Roughing the holes with a 20 thow radius carbide endmill should work perfectly and greatly reduce the work and load on the reamer. I have often negated the use of...

G'day Robert Mate to be perfectly honest i hadn't realy given it any thought! But the bolt is already harder than the catch. The bolts are arround 44 HRC and i would suspect that the 4140 bar to be at arround 30-35 HRC so realy there shouldn't be a problem. If i decide to get the catch...

The finial part is finished!! I managed to get the bolt release catch made today. Milled out of a sold bar of 4140, it will be probably finial polished and then silver nitrided. I am also considering adding some metal checkering to the top of the bolt shroud and the release catch. Any smiths...

Joe, it has certanly been frustrating at times. There ware a few time when i thought of scrapping the whole lot, especialy after the registration fiasco. I realy did think that they would be crushed by the police..:eek: This week has been good and bad as i now almost have a working action but...

Getting close now! G'day Guys.. Well it's been a busy two weeks and i've realy made some progress with the actions. All the major parts are now completed and i've been able to assemble an action and actualy fire off a few test primers (No live rounds just yet. The drop port functions well and...

More Progress G'day fellas Well as posted I got my actions back from the Armourer last month and he did a very good job. I put the bolts and receivers back up in the lathe to check his work and it was spot on:D. I still have to drill and tap the mounting holes etc and over the next week i...

WhooHoo!!! Ok guys i guess it's time to put every one out of there misery. I actualy got my actions back from the armourer over a month ago, all paperwork completed and both registered in my name. :D:D:D:D:D:D Gee it only took 6 months :mad: The bolts and the receivers are...

G'day Guys Sorry it's been a while since my last post here. On the 14th of April 2009 i sent off the paperwork for the actions to my state firearms registry and unfortunatly haven't heard back from them since.:( Despite at least a dozen phone calls to them i still have no idea if my actions...

The bearings used in my rest were 30mm OD and 17mm ID. Thats about 1 3/16 OD and 11/16 ID. I had pleanty of meat to drill and tap each side for the handle and the counter weight. I had some time today and made up a suitable counter weight. What a difference... With the weight added and...

That sounds like a great idea.. I've never seen one with a counter weight. I will have a play with this also when i get some more time shooting over the rest.. Cheers Leeroy

Yes there are teflon blocks on the ends of the screws which ride in a slot cut in the first plate.. Cheers Leeroy

The internals for my rest were pretty simple also. I didn't use "V" grooves but instead clamped the two plates together with a 1/16 alloy shim in between and then drilled and reamed two 8mm holes down the center. When they were seperated i was left with two circular grooves precisly matched to...

G'day fellas Well it's now been 3 months since i sent off my actions to be registered and i'm still waiting for my State firearms registry to get it sorted out....... I've been told that the officer in charge of my applications will be in contact with me next week so hopefully some progress...

Thanks Thanks for posting the link Ultramag, you beat me to it.. :D Cheers Leeroy

6br G'day Gt40 My 6BR reamer is from PT&G and was a "No Turn" neck at 0.270. I'm using Lapua brass and loaded rounds neck measures 0.2685. Most would consider this to be the minium clearance for neck dia. Cheers Leeroy

G'day Jhart Mate you will get lots of differing opinions on this one... In my 6BR i only FL size when cases become tight to chamber, other wise I just neck size using a redding Bushing neck sizer die. My accuracy load is 31 Gns of AR-2208 (Varget) over a CCI BR primer shooting the Berger 95...

Thanks Thankyou all very much for your replys gentlemen. The melonite sounds pretty good, i'll do a bit of searching arround here in OZ and see whats avaliable. Thanks Again.. Cheers Leeroy

G'day Adamsgt Mate i think the first thing you need to decide is if this is going to be a heavy duty working chuck doing big interupted cuts or just for fine finishing work. If it's the later i would be inclined to actualy have some clearence between the spigot and recess to allow you to take...

G'day Fellas.. As you know i've started buiding my own action and so far everything is going to plan. But today i hit a snag... I had always had the intention of hot bluing my actions when finished. Howver i was recently told buy a guy on the forums that the material i chose for my action...

More Progress More Progress I have finished the CNC work on the two bolts. They just need to have the bolt face cut into them and once registered, the firing pin hole will be drilled. Setup for cutting most of the flange away leaving a small square stub. Setup for cutting the bolt lugs...