Drawn filing on a Military barrel?

[FrankG]

I have one here somewhere , came off one of the 'cigarette' rifles from WWII .

[brstevns]

I have one here somewhere , came off one of the 'cigarette' rifles from WWII .

Went over my head. Have one what?
Do you mean a barrel?

[Hdskip]

If nothing else take this opportunity as a learning experience . You may be surprised how much you may learn about filing metal. Even if you learn you may not want to do it any more. Question I might have is what would you intend to do with it when finished? I have done a few things in my life that may not have turned out. But I always learned something. Yes I have pitch a few projects in the scrap bin....��

[LAGS]

I have to agree with Hdskip.
Try what you want to do , preferably on some old junk you don't care about.
You can Test your skills and improve them if you need to.
I can't remember any of my projects ending up in the Scrap Barrel.
But that does not mean they turned out like I wanted them to.
(Or what they started out in my mind to be)
But those will be the junk I use when I get another brainstorm.

[brstevns]

If nothing else take this opportunity as a learning experience . You may be surprised how much you may learn about filing metal. Even if you learn you may not want to do it any more. Question I might have is what would you intend to do with it when finished? I have done a few things in my life that may not have turned out. But I always learned something. Yes I have pitch a few projects in the scrap bin....��

I was going to use it on a SR Mauser, just for cast bullet use.

[country gent]

A old tool makers trick when finish filing is to fill the file with chalk, chalk board chalk works well. It dries the file and also reduces pinning. Chalk a new file let set a little while and brush out this removes any oil from it. rechalk and use it.

A good clean dry "sharp" file will run chips out quick and they are sharp and nasty when they stick you. They shear angle when draw filing can really cut quick. Remember a file like a saw only cuts in one direction dragging on the back stroke will dull it much faster.