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<blockquote data-quote="NesikaChad" data-source="post: 263564" data-attributes="member: 7449"><p>Well that's what going into debt is all about. . .</p><p></p><p>I've got the CNC mill bought and paid for already and If I did another 6 months here I'd have the lathe, but Momma and the kids have laid down the law so I pop smoke in 22 days. I can't wait either cause I'm ready to come home. I'm tired of this **** hole.</p><p></p><p>OK, no BS truth:</p><p></p><p>All this high dollar skunk works stuff is cool, but I've cut chambers on $2000 dollar Jett lathes bought from Harbor Freight too and I never had a gun shoot terrible.</p><p></p><p>Glenn Harrison, the founder of Nesika had a lathe that was absolutely TERRIBLE when I first met him and that's what Nesika used for chambering in Poulsbo. This machine was a *** and it would screw you every chance it got. It was so bad that once you engaged the half nut for threading you didn't dare take it out cause it'd never repeat. You threaded by running the tool upside down and the machine in reverse. Then you'd kill the power, back out and rotate it back to the start point by hand. This thing was so bad I didn't even like cutting screws with it so I made a fixture to do it on the mill. (works slick too)</p><p></p><p>When I say it sucked I mean it SUCKED.</p><p></p><p>In spite of this though they (and when I first go there we/I) built guns using that lathe that shot very very very well. Sometimes scary good in fact.</p><p></p><p>What this tells me is it comes down to the nut running the equipment and if you have some common sense you can get still get good results. </p><p></p><p>I had unique parameters at Dakota/Nesika. I had a huge budget and owners that didn't care what it took to make it the best it could be and when I say best I mean best. I'm not a super smart guy, I barely made it through HS and so I spent a great deal of time consulting with engineers and people with all kinds of fancy abbreviations attached to their name to make all this stuff work.</p><p></p><p>Mike Allen was my boss then and he is/was the most anal retentive sum biche you'll ever meet. As a holder of a PHD in metalurgy and a former head of a naval nuclear submarine research lab that tested hull integrity you can see why/how that came to be. He's also a great guy and his love for the product was genuine. If a floor metal was off by .015" we'd do it over because that's how thick the primer and paint is on a synthetic stock. And God help you if you tried to half *** it by using bedding to fix it cause lumps of crap in the inlets were never acceptable. Ever special order a trigger guard .015' thicker than normal so that you didn't have to scrap a whole stock?</p><p></p><p>That's the level of anal we lived by during that 3 year period and that's why you see bedding jobs that I do the way that they are.</p><p></p><p>If Dakota/Nesika ever get out of their financial troubles I'll scrap the whole idea of starting my own shop and beg (and I mean BEG) for my old job back in a second. It's the greatest job I ever had and I miss it a lot. I could design, develop, and produce anything I could dream up there. Just can't put a price on resources like that.</p><p></p><p>Maybe someday (fingers crossed)</p><p></p><p>thanks for the interest and hopefully this answered some questions.</p><p></p><p>Chad</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NesikaChad, post: 263564, member: 7449"] Well that's what going into debt is all about. . . I've got the CNC mill bought and paid for already and If I did another 6 months here I'd have the lathe, but Momma and the kids have laid down the law so I pop smoke in 22 days. I can't wait either cause I'm ready to come home. I'm tired of this **** hole. OK, no BS truth: All this high dollar skunk works stuff is cool, but I've cut chambers on $2000 dollar Jett lathes bought from Harbor Freight too and I never had a gun shoot terrible. Glenn Harrison, the founder of Nesika had a lathe that was absolutely TERRIBLE when I first met him and that's what Nesika used for chambering in Poulsbo. This machine was a *** and it would screw you every chance it got. It was so bad that once you engaged the half nut for threading you didn't dare take it out cause it'd never repeat. You threaded by running the tool upside down and the machine in reverse. Then you'd kill the power, back out and rotate it back to the start point by hand. This thing was so bad I didn't even like cutting screws with it so I made a fixture to do it on the mill. (works slick too) When I say it sucked I mean it SUCKED. In spite of this though they (and when I first go there we/I) built guns using that lathe that shot very very very well. Sometimes scary good in fact. What this tells me is it comes down to the nut running the equipment and if you have some common sense you can get still get good results. I had unique parameters at Dakota/Nesika. I had a huge budget and owners that didn't care what it took to make it the best it could be and when I say best I mean best. I'm not a super smart guy, I barely made it through HS and so I spent a great deal of time consulting with engineers and people with all kinds of fancy abbreviations attached to their name to make all this stuff work. Mike Allen was my boss then and he is/was the most anal retentive sum biche you'll ever meet. As a holder of a PHD in metalurgy and a former head of a naval nuclear submarine research lab that tested hull integrity you can see why/how that came to be. He's also a great guy and his love for the product was genuine. If a floor metal was off by .015" we'd do it over because that's how thick the primer and paint is on a synthetic stock. And God help you if you tried to half *** it by using bedding to fix it cause lumps of crap in the inlets were never acceptable. Ever special order a trigger guard .015' thicker than normal so that you didn't have to scrap a whole stock? That's the level of anal we lived by during that 3 year period and that's why you see bedding jobs that I do the way that they are. If Dakota/Nesika ever get out of their financial troubles I'll scrap the whole idea of starting my own shop and beg (and I mean BEG) for my old job back in a second. It's the greatest job I ever had and I miss it a lot. I could design, develop, and produce anything I could dream up there. Just can't put a price on resources like that. Maybe someday (fingers crossed) thanks for the interest and hopefully this answered some questions. Chad [/QUOTE]
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