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<blockquote data-quote="NesikaChad" data-source="post: 220753" data-attributes="member: 7449"><p>Well, I WANT this which is what I had at Nesika, the Harrison Alpha 1330 U tool room lathe.</p><p></p><p>Tapered Gamut class 9 spindle bearings, 8 position turret, Fanuc control, and some pretty cool proprietary programming features. </p><p></p><p>The main reason now is simply familiarity. I had the 1st one of these babies in the US. It was a new product in 2003. </p><p></p><p>What I'll probably end up getting (at a savings of about 50K) is a Hardinge tool room CNC lathe with 8 position turret. Looking at it from photos it appears like it'll work just fine while still allowing me to produce other parts in volume.</p><p></p><p>The end game is a turning center devoted exclusively to fitting barrels to actions. I'll get there, just might take a year or two once the doors open.</p><p></p><p>That Harrison is one bad *** mother though, make no mistake. In 2005 I had an order for 50 of the Dakota Scimitar sniper rifles for the Jordanian Spec Ops command.</p><p></p><p>I, and my bosses son, built all 50 of those guns in 30 hours. Worked all night. I could thread, chamber, and crown a barrel in less than 30 minutes. Chip to chip. TIR of the chambers was between .0002 and .0005 on every one of em too. Good machines make good parts. The best TIR I ever got was .000175" I had to purchase a higher res indicator just to detect it. Left the barrel in the machine for two days waiting for it from MSC. pretty cool. Its actually the barrel that went on Dan Kinnemans 300RUM later went on to smoke a P. dog at 2552 yards. Made the cover of Small Caliber news! Pretty cool.</p><p></p><p>The mill we had could run a stock chip to chip in 8 minutes on the primary inlet and the secondary top side was done in 12. Took longer due to the spring passes to get the surface finishes right. **** fiberglass! Abrasive stuff, hard on tooling. The mag box inlet on the 338's are big too and you'd get a lot of tool deflection if you ran it too hard going that deep (all the way through the stock) If you pulled it out like that the floor metal would be all jacked up when going in from the bottom.</p><p></p><p>Still, 40 minutes of machine time, and another 1.5 hours of hand labor doing the bedding isn't bad on a gun that retails for over 6K. the barrel and stock shop made money on those buggers!</p><p></p><p>Yeah, lots of coffee and the floor was covered with cigarette butts the next morning. Got my arse chewed for smoking in the shop. (still don't feel bad)</p><p></p><p>Good times!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NesikaChad, post: 220753, member: 7449"] Well, I WANT this which is what I had at Nesika, the Harrison Alpha 1330 U tool room lathe. Tapered Gamut class 9 spindle bearings, 8 position turret, Fanuc control, and some pretty cool proprietary programming features. The main reason now is simply familiarity. I had the 1st one of these babies in the US. It was a new product in 2003. What I'll probably end up getting (at a savings of about 50K) is a Hardinge tool room CNC lathe with 8 position turret. Looking at it from photos it appears like it'll work just fine while still allowing me to produce other parts in volume. The end game is a turning center devoted exclusively to fitting barrels to actions. I'll get there, just might take a year or two once the doors open. That Harrison is one bad *** mother though, make no mistake. In 2005 I had an order for 50 of the Dakota Scimitar sniper rifles for the Jordanian Spec Ops command. I, and my bosses son, built all 50 of those guns in 30 hours. Worked all night. I could thread, chamber, and crown a barrel in less than 30 minutes. Chip to chip. TIR of the chambers was between .0002 and .0005 on every one of em too. Good machines make good parts. The best TIR I ever got was .000175" I had to purchase a higher res indicator just to detect it. Left the barrel in the machine for two days waiting for it from MSC. pretty cool. Its actually the barrel that went on Dan Kinnemans 300RUM later went on to smoke a P. dog at 2552 yards. Made the cover of Small Caliber news! Pretty cool. The mill we had could run a stock chip to chip in 8 minutes on the primary inlet and the secondary top side was done in 12. Took longer due to the spring passes to get the surface finishes right. **** fiberglass! Abrasive stuff, hard on tooling. The mag box inlet on the 338's are big too and you'd get a lot of tool deflection if you ran it too hard going that deep (all the way through the stock) If you pulled it out like that the floor metal would be all jacked up when going in from the bottom. Still, 40 minutes of machine time, and another 1.5 hours of hand labor doing the bedding isn't bad on a gun that retails for over 6K. the barrel and stock shop made money on those buggers! Yeah, lots of coffee and the floor was covered with cigarette butts the next morning. Got my arse chewed for smoking in the shop. (still don't feel bad) Good times! [/QUOTE]
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