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Thinking of buying a lathe, how hard is it to chamber a rifle?
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<blockquote data-quote="25WSM" data-source="post: 2652234" data-attributes="member: 38048"><p>Its easy to do a chamber job and have a perfectly safe functioning rifle. Not so easy to make rifles that shoot in the 1's consistently. Everything is in the setup like butterbean said. The machining is nothing out of the norms of machinist work. I was a machinist before becoming a custom smith 30 plus yrs ago. You can learn all the machinist basics and do the cutting no problem. But how you put your work in the lathe and dial it in is the big difference. I went to the PA gunsmith school when Chief was still there every day. I picked his brain relentlessly. All I wanted was to build accuracy. He taught me. I now do my barrels completely different. You will learn what needs to happen to make accurate rifles. Then you will learn how to do it better and more efficiently. You will work to your strengths and to your machines limitations. Some lathes are better at chambers in the headstock and some are better between centers. For a beginner I fully recommend learning between centers. Much less margin of error in setup and lathe alignment. Once you get going you will fully understand what I just said and why. If you can take a few days of vacation I would help you out to get you going. But only after you get some equipment and are proficient at basic machinist work. What I show you wont mean much until you get to that point. </p><p>Shep</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="25WSM, post: 2652234, member: 38048"] Its easy to do a chamber job and have a perfectly safe functioning rifle. Not so easy to make rifles that shoot in the 1’s consistently. Everything is in the setup like butterbean said. The machining is nothing out of the norms of machinist work. I was a machinist before becoming a custom smith 30 plus yrs ago. You can learn all the machinist basics and do the cutting no problem. But how you put your work in the lathe and dial it in is the big difference. I went to the PA gunsmith school when Chief was still there every day. I picked his brain relentlessly. All I wanted was to build accuracy. He taught me. I now do my barrels completely different. You will learn what needs to happen to make accurate rifles. Then you will learn how to do it better and more efficiently. You will work to your strengths and to your machines limitations. Some lathes are better at chambers in the headstock and some are better between centers. For a beginner I fully recommend learning between centers. Much less margin of error in setup and lathe alignment. Once you get going you will fully understand what I just said and why. If you can take a few days of vacation I would help you out to get you going. But only after you get some equipment and are proficient at basic machinist work. What I show you wont mean much until you get to that point. Shep [/QUOTE]
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