Steady rest
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Dave Tooley
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I've had the best luck running the brass points on the threads. Always felt the alignment was better. Once the tenon and threads are cut between centers there is no load on the brass points.
Butch Lambert
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I'm with Dave. I must never felt good with the one that I have with bearings. I much prefer the brass fingers.
MilGunsmith
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If you clean up a parallel section over the chamber in front of the tenon, you can run your steadyrest fingers there. An old trick with steel steadyrest fingers is to use a strip of fine emery cloth, turned grit side to the fingers, wrapped around the barrel with the two ends caught in clamp side of the steadyrest. Oil the cloth before using.
mwezell
Mike Ezell
Threads are not supposed to be left full sharp. They each have a specification for flat width and height. Machinery's handbook is the Bible, in this context. Lots of very good self taught smiths cut threads under the belief that threads should be left sharp. Some even take pride in it. This is just wrong.
The tops and bottoms of a vee thread SHOULD do NOTHING. When they do, that's when there are problems and galled up messes. In this regard, while there are specs, clearance is generally clearance. Don't get all worried about this number being precise for most applications, but do make sure there is a flat on top of your mail threads so that there is clearance between the top of the male and bottom of the female.
If done right, there is very little load on the brass rest fingers and no damage from sharp vee threads.
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jackie schmidt
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How long is the headstock?
I have always done my barrels in a lathe with too long of a headstock to use a outboard spider.
I used to have a write up in BENCHREST.com complete with pictures, on a very efficient way to do this, but The pictures got deleted.
I have always done my barrels in a lathe with too long of a headstock to use a outboard spider.
I used to have a write up in BENCHREST.com complete with pictures, on a very efficient way to do this, but The pictures got deleted.
The head stock is about 22 or 23"" long I think I'll have to check in the morning . And this barrel is 20 inches . And I do have a outboard spider ,but the barrel isn't long enough to use it . Jackie I think I may have that right up I'll have to see if I can find it , I have lots of old right ups that you guys have posted over the years .
PS: The thing is I'm not a gunsmith nor a machinest , Just a tinkerererer . But I can usely get done what I want to accomplish. I don't do work for anyone else ever , but I have rebarreled or set back barrels of mine I'v done about 9 of them . And braging on my self I can shoot 3 or 4 shots under .100 and even down under a inch at 600 yds match , but can't get the other 1or2 in there with them LOL . Guess I'll never be able to do that a 80 years old but that is ok I'm having fun !
PS: The thing is I'm not a gunsmith nor a machinest , Just a tinkerererer . But I can usely get done what I want to accomplish. I don't do work for anyone else ever , but I have rebarreled or set back barrels of mine I'v done about 9 of them . And braging on my self I can shoot 3 or 4 shots under .100 and even down under a inch at 600 yds match , but can't get the other 1or2 in there with them LOL . Guess I'll never be able to do that a 80 years old but that is ok I'm having fun !
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Picture if you will having TWO barrels..... and a coupler.
I spent a few months toying with barrel nuts. In the process I inside-threaded a buncha' hunks which can be used as couplers for butt joins. I now have "Extenders" or "adapters" made from castoff barrels, 12L14, hunks of pipe etc, whatever's to hand..... of every size and pitch such that I can quickly and easily lengthen a barrel from either end whether butt joins, 5/8-24 muzzle brake joins ....... I just make them as needed. I've even got couplers for Ezell tuner threads, both sizes.
Ain't NO BARREL too short when you can couple on an extension
BillBrawand
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i did that rollers didt hold as steady.
Back in 2009 there was a document published showing various methods of chambering and various lathe setups from several gunsmiths on this site. Along with pictures and if you send me an email I can then send you that document as I believe it might be of some help to you. Just send a request for that document to the bottom email address and I will get it off to you. Should you not already have it in your own stored files.
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Wayne Shaw
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Picture if you will having TWO barrels..... and a coupler.
I spent a few months toying with barrel nuts. In the process I inside-threaded a buncha' hunks which can be used as couplers for butt joins. I now have "Extenders" or "adapters" made from castoff barrels, 12L14, hunks of pipe etc, whatever's to hand..... of every size and pitch such that I can quickly and easily lengthen a barrel from either end whether butt joins, 5/8-24 muzzle brake joins ....... I just make them as needed. I've even got couplers for Ezell tuner threads, both sizes.
Ain't NO BARREL too short when you can couple on an extension
It's been done a long time. First I did it was to get an XP barrel to crown it. Recently It was to set back a short barrel, that was threaded for a tuner. Easy.
Can you send it again ? could not find it . Thanks
Yes I got it , Thanks .