Silly question, what clearance on the toggle bar ram and top plate linkage to allow for paint thickness?
While I'm here 1045 hard chrome for the guides and 4130 for the main shaft?
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Forum: Swaging
Silly question, what clearance on the toggle bar ram and top plate linkage to allow for paint thickness?
While I'm here 1045 hard chrome for the guides and 4130 for the main shaft?
Forum: Our Town
We met friends to walk our dogs down the river our lab would have been 8 or 9, after a few hundred meters it became apparent someone had been cleaning up the rabbits and leaving the skins head and...
Forum: Our Town
Chillie con-carnival!
Right or wrong mine is heavily seasoned ( cumin, coriander, paprika and smoked, garlic, onion and a dash of turmeric etc) light on the heat.
Kidney beans - half mushed for...
Forum: Our Town
We had a wasp nest in the ground down the back of our section a few years ago.
Upon advice I filled 2 buckets with sand and quietly placed them near by during the day.
Came back at night and...
Forum: "The Barrel Works"
I will give sheet lead a go think I have some, thanks
Forum: "The Barrel Works"
So my action wrench fits like a glove but my 4 jaw chuck cannot hold the barrel tight enough.
I have more blocks precut to hold the barrel, do I try to follow the barrel profile, bore it to take...
Forum: "The Barrel Works"
Thanks Larry will get my head around all of that once the barrels off, I had a rem700 in 25-06 in mind among other schemes.
I made an action wrench this morning unfortunately my work lathe is...
Forum: "The Barrel Works"
Quick question, with an action wrench on the flat is it supposed to pick up the bottom of the recoil lug or "other", is the bottom of the action flat? It's in the shed will retrieve later tonight for...
Forum: "The Barrel Works"
Thanks for the input lots of knowledge out there, I suppose the first step is to take the barrel off and find out the thread size then.
There are zero markings on the reciever
Forum: "The Barrel Works"
I feel I have read somewhere recently an m98 can be rebarreled with a take off, possibly with a spacer ring.
I can't for the life of me find the info but was hoping someone might be able to help...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Build the broken screw up with a Tig until proud, weld a scrap of flat to this and unwind once cool.
If scrap breaks reattach. The heat will cook any locktite, the expansion and cooling also helps...
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Clean no scale 1/8 steel 110 to 100 amps is where I would start. 2x pieces of flat to join with a fillet.
Rest your wrist on some 2x4, move the torch in a smooth arc start to stop for a 1 to 2"...
Forum: Swaging
Kerosene for cutting I think, if you feed in a length or 3 feet of tube I feel the rpm for parting will cause it to whip and then bend. A mini drop saw to cut a little over length I think would be...
Forum: Swaging
Straight shank collet holder and rig up a stop for it, hold it in a 3 jaw work out your length and nip up the saddle.
Make some soft jaws out of 1045 with a shoulder in the back of them as a stop....
Forum: Shot Guns
9/32 26tpi BSB ( British standard brass?) According to google. A Whitworth thread form with a taller pitch apparently.
Once you know the pitch, you know if it's metric or imp. The OD or ID will...
Forum: Our Town
Brought a Lee anniversary kit, dies and watched YouTube was nervous as heck was going to blow my face off. My supervisor at wk invited me to bring my gear round to his place, 2hrs later and most of...
Forum: Swaging
Thanks delta, I will re chuck it and take it out to around 7/8 believe it or not the shop press would be worse than a harbor freight hence my concern.
Haven't made the punch or nozzle yet, let...
Forum: Swaging
Thanks for the feedback, I have pressed on and spun up the outer reamed to 12.4 and 90mm long with a 1 1/2 by 14tpi for a nozzle.
I will make a pin with a head and 2tho? clearance and a nozzle to...
Forum: Swaging
I would like to squeeze soft lead to continue with my interest,
I was thinking about casting billets around 1/2 " diameter by 3/4 to 1" long and using around a 20t press. The housing maybe 1 1/2...
Forum: Swaging
I have ordered a 5.6 drill, when it turns up I will put my spare blank in the mill and do the same for comparison, polish both and try the 195 and 200 punch and will update.
Onwards to a wire...
Forum: Swaging
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The 7/32 Drill with quill feed in the mill gave a great finish, was hoping it would cut a little bigger ended up with a diameter of .218.
The .195 punch left less of a line at the rim...
Forum: Swaging
Had 195 to 200 tho in my head for the pin, dropped the ball on that too...
Ha, I can laugh at myself and not be frustrated with wasted efforts,
Forum: Swaging
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Hopefully this works, I still call it a success. My 7/8 14 tpi thread was smooth and the pin clipped in and out of the ram positively.
It was around 5.06 or .199 tho, I feel a better...
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