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Chambering opinions for a new Custom Rifle line
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<blockquote data-quote="shortgrass" data-source="post: 983415" data-attributes="member: 24284"><p>Rental reamers? How do I know the renter(s) before me had a clue? There are so many hobbiests out there who lack any serious machining experience who rent chambering reamers. My customer deserves better than that. Those reamers I own, well, they pay for themselves, just as the special tooling in a machine shop pays for its self. The 'specials' the customer supplies. If I feel there's a demand for it and will use it I buy. I never buy one until I have a job for it , though. It's all part of the 'game'. I've used all but a couple of them multiple times over the past 17 years. Some have 16+ chambers on them and are still cutting strong and making 'tight' chambers. The ony ones I've had sharpened were 'bad' tools to begin with. If you want to supply a top quaity product, you'd better own the tooling so that you have complete control. Mudrunner, carbide is not the answer to everything. Number 1, carbide is brittle, it chips/cracks very easiy. Number 2, you can easiy double the feeds & speeds. If you don't, you've wasted your money and all you're doing is rubbing those carbide reamers/cutters to death. The finish will suffer, also. It'd take a hell of a lathe hand to double reamer feeds & speeds on a manuel machine. Take the time to actually calculate the proper speeds & feeds for a HS chambering reamer, that's properly lubricated/cooled, and you' see what I mean. Most HS reamers get 'rubbed' to death, as it is. Number 3, Takes a real good coolant system to keep those tools cool inside that 'hole'. Better factor in the cost of building a 'muzzle flush' system. They ony real way carbide (reamers) can pay off is if they're used in an automatic machine or a production machine , like an old turrent lathe, neither would make a good 'chambering' machine. Think CNC. Better have <em>real</em> deep pockets if you're going to compete with the likes of Quarter Minute Magnums and Gunwerks (among some others),,,,,,, and they already have their reputations estabished in a niche market that appears to be slowing. (in the immediate area I'm in, I've seen a total of 4 firearms businesses close their doors in the last 6 weeks (big/large companies), and I'm in an area that survived , and actually thrived through the financial woes of the past 6 years)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="shortgrass, post: 983415, member: 24284"] Rental reamers? How do I know the renter(s) before me had a clue? There are so many hobbiests out there who lack any serious machining experience who rent chambering reamers. My customer deserves better than that. Those reamers I own, well, they pay for themselves, just as the special tooling in a machine shop pays for its self. The 'specials' the customer supplies. If I feel there's a demand for it and will use it I buy. I never buy one until I have a job for it , though. It's all part of the 'game'. I've used all but a couple of them multiple times over the past 17 years. Some have 16+ chambers on them and are still cutting strong and making 'tight' chambers. The ony ones I've had sharpened were 'bad' tools to begin with. If you want to supply a top quaity product, you'd better own the tooling so that you have complete control. Mudrunner, carbide is not the answer to everything. Number 1, carbide is brittle, it chips/cracks very easiy. Number 2, you can easiy double the feeds & speeds. If you don't, you've wasted your money and all you're doing is rubbing those carbide reamers/cutters to death. The finish will suffer, also. It'd take a hell of a lathe hand to double reamer feeds & speeds on a manuel machine. Take the time to actually calculate the proper speeds & feeds for a HS chambering reamer, that's properly lubricated/cooled, and you' see what I mean. Most HS reamers get 'rubbed' to death, as it is. Number 3, Takes a real good coolant system to keep those tools cool inside that 'hole'. Better factor in the cost of building a 'muzzle flush' system. They ony real way carbide (reamers) can pay off is if they're used in an automatic machine or a production machine , like an old turrent lathe, neither would make a good 'chambering' machine. Think CNC. Better have [I]real[/I] deep pockets if you're going to compete with the likes of Quarter Minute Magnums and Gunwerks (among some others),,,,,,, and they already have their reputations estabished in a niche market that appears to be slowing. (in the immediate area I'm in, I've seen a total of 4 firearms businesses close their doors in the last 6 weeks (big/large companies), and I'm in an area that survived , and actually thrived through the financial woes of the past 6 years) [/QUOTE]
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