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  1. Does anyone have a pic of their heatsink? Thanks, Ben
  2. Excellent. I'll be boring on my lathe so the hole should be nice and round. I'll get out the micrometer and measure the aluminum before I start just to be sure. Now I have to get my 4jaw chuck fitted to its new back plate and I'll be off and running. Thanks, Bennypapa
  3. I am making a barrel vice out of 1.5" sq steel. I have 2 pieces drilled and one tapped so they bolt together fine. I bought some 1.5" round aluminum to make bushings from and have come to a bit of a design stagnation. I need to bore out the hole for the bushings but I am not real sure what size to bore it to. I believe I need to bore it under sized to give it clamping power on the slitted bushing but HOW MUCH UNDERSIZED? Any ideas or suggestions about the sizing and fit of the bushings would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Bennypapa
  4. I'll pay postage on a couple if you wanna send em to me. I'd like to make a couple of tools as mentioned in a previous post and I don't have any take off barrels yet.
  5. You may want to shop around. Take a look at Wideners reloading website. I have bought from them in the past and their prices on Lee equipment seem pretty low. Bennypapa
  6. I was thinking along those lines too. You could also mount the reciever to a mounting block mounted in the 4 jaw I cannot picture how to mount the reciever without it being mounted to a block but the mandrel seems the way to go for centering and alignment. Keep us posted.
  7. OOOOH that's too bad. I don't have either. What is considered a light cut? I was starting with .002" I had the compund set to 90degrees from the work piece and backed off the cross feed so that I could set the compund to 0 with no slack. I then ran the bit up to the work until it just touched. I then turned the compund to 4 (4 little lines form 0) I am going to go through all the setup procedures in my manual and try it again. Thanks, Ben
  8. I bought some 1.25" dia 1018 cold rolled steel friday and i am having some trouble. I am turning it on my craftsman 12x36 lathe between centers and it is chattering like mad. I have tried various speeds and tool bits and bit heights and it just chatters away. It also doesn't make nice long curly cuttings. The cuttings are short and chip off when they get to be about 0.125" long. Am I missing someting about 1018? Should I have gotten Hot rolled? The guy at the steel place said I should use cold rolled. Thanks, Bennypapa
  9. Bennypapa

    Sarco Barrel

    Refresh my memory... Within a given caliber do heavier bullets need faster twist than lighter bullets? Ben
  10. The local industrial supply house has 0-1, W-1, A-2, AND D-2 in some sizes of drill rod. Then of course there is Enco. The O-1 I have tried doesn't turn all that great and is such overkill for things that aren't heat treated. Ben
  11. I want to make some barrel mandrels both to use and for the practice cutting threads. What metal should I make them from? I can get drill rod locally as well as 1018 but I don't know which would be best. Thanks, Bennypapa
  12. I would like the 6.5x55 or the 6mm Rem. I shoot mostly paper so almost any cartridge would do. I have been preoccupied with the 308 family for some time though for no real practical reason other than cheap surplus ammo. I guess I have some fantasy about cheap brass for reloading or something like that. I really don't know much about the 7x57 other than the fact that the factory loads made for weaker small ring actions don't really live up to the cartridges potential. The .308 family seems to be more readily available (not that I shoot enough that loading my own would take much time) I'll look up the cartridge drawings for the 8x57, 308 and 6x55 and compare thanks. Bennypapa
  13. If any of this has been covered please point me to the previous discussions or appropriate web pages, thanks. I'd like to build a medium/heavy barreled rifle from a mauser in .243 or .308. or 7mm-08. The action is the basic building block of every rifle and from what little I have learned it seems I should use a '98 action. Since this will be my first I am not going to buy a new action for fear of destroying it so I am looking at surplus rifles as a source for parts. If there is anybody who has some experience with building rifles on 98 actions I would like to hear your advice on which rifles to start from. Which are the best source for parts? Which require the least work? I have a local source for some really nice yugo (intermediate length) m24/47's right now. They are in great shape and reasonably cheap. I know that the aftermarket parts such as stocks are in limited availability for these guns when compared to the standard 98. Are there other drawbacks? Any advice on where to start is appreciated. Thank you, Bennypapa
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