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Thinking of buying a lathe, how hard is it to chamber a rifle?
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<blockquote data-quote="257WTBY" data-source="post: 2652403" data-attributes="member: 56428"><p>Ive been millwright/machining for 30+ yrs, last dozen or so I've been in tool and die shop. I chamber my own barrels as well as any other machining task for building a rifle. I do not do it for anyone other than my immediate family. I do not have a gun smith license or a want to get one. I just like to tinker with it. I have an older Colchester/Clausing lathe and a 2 HP Bridgeport knee mill with CNC servo drives at the house I just picked up a wire EDM machine I am currently installing. I can write G code. The last rifle I had built (fast twist 257 WYBT) I sent to a really good gunsmith to have the work done not because I couldn't do it facts are I do not do it every day and do not know all the best practices to use anymore, but more than that he has established a name by his work in his profession and he's d@mn good.</p><p></p><p>I say if you have the time and money to invest learning a new skill is never a bad thing. If there is an available class take it see if it is what you thought it would be. I taught both my daughters to run mill, lathe and weld TIG MIG and ARC they both helped me to re-build their first vehicles. One had 91 Toyota 4x4 and the youngest a 1985 4 runner. My youngest is now graduated school and working as a machinist and loves it. Wife thought it was crazy teaching the girls these skills but I told her the same thing, this knowledge would help them out later in life when they least expect it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="257WTBY, post: 2652403, member: 56428"] Ive been millwright/machining for 30+ yrs, last dozen or so I've been in tool and die shop. I chamber my own barrels as well as any other machining task for building a rifle. I do not do it for anyone other than my immediate family. I do not have a gun smith license or a want to get one. I just like to tinker with it. I have an older Colchester/Clausing lathe and a 2 HP Bridgeport knee mill with CNC servo drives at the house I just picked up a wire EDM machine I am currently installing. I can write G code. The last rifle I had built (fast twist 257 WYBT) I sent to a really good gunsmith to have the work done not because I couldn't do it facts are I do not do it every day and do not know all the best practices to use anymore, but more than that he has established a name by his work in his profession and he's d@mn good. I say if you have the time and money to invest learning a new skill is never a bad thing. If there is an available class take it see if it is what you thought it would be. I taught both my daughters to run mill, lathe and weld TIG MIG and ARC they both helped me to re-build their first vehicles. One had 91 Toyota 4x4 and the youngest a 1985 4 runner. My youngest is now graduated school and working as a machinist and loves it. Wife thought it was crazy teaching the girls these skills but I told her the same thing, this knowledge would help them out later in life when they least expect it. [/QUOTE]
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