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Hand tight switch barrel accuracy?
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<blockquote data-quote="ntsqd" data-source="post: 2004885" data-attributes="member: 93138"><p>I was thinking more for lightly tightening the barrel. that they might tighten in use didn't percolate thru until after I posted.</p><p></p><p>Downside to a barrel nut vs. a shouldered barrel is setting the head-space. Not that it is hard to do, it's just that it's another step and a possible point of inconsistency. I could see profiling a shouldered barrel to use, say, a Savage barrel nut wrench. Then no flats, but up to the OP if the Savage drive splines are unacceptable. I don't know of a way that I would trust to 'seize' a barrel nut on a barrel in an attempt to create a shouldered barrel once the head-space was set.</p><p></p><p>On the subject of torque wrenches, BT, DT with a clicker that was out of calibration. Cost us a good part of the racing season and a whole bunch of rod & main bearings. I use beam type torque wrenches these days. It is easy to spot when one of those is out of calibration and it is easy to "re-calibrate" it. They're just not very fast to use, but since I am not racing I don't care.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ntsqd, post: 2004885, member: 93138"] I was thinking more for lightly tightening the barrel. that they might tighten in use didn't percolate thru until after I posted. Downside to a barrel nut vs. a shouldered barrel is setting the head-space. Not that it is hard to do, it's just that it's another step and a possible point of inconsistency. I could see profiling a shouldered barrel to use, say, a Savage barrel nut wrench. Then no flats, but up to the OP if the Savage drive splines are unacceptable. I don't know of a way that I would trust to 'seize' a barrel nut on a barrel in an attempt to create a shouldered barrel once the head-space was set. On the subject of torque wrenches, BT, DT with a clicker that was out of calibration. Cost us a good part of the racing season and a whole bunch of rod & main bearings. I use beam type torque wrenches these days. It is easy to spot when one of those is out of calibration and it is easy to "re-calibrate" it. They're just not very fast to use, but since I am not racing I don't care. [/QUOTE]
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