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<blockquote data-quote="shortgrass" data-source="post: 1309193" data-attributes="member: 24284"><p>OH! But I DO have experience with foot brakes on lathes! I worked for several yrs. in the tool repair shop in a bearing plant. We had a Wells/Index 10x54 mill and a Nardini 13x40 tool room lathe with a brake. I used the brake several times, on and off, and just never found it useful,,,,,, and I did a lot of threading with it. After I graduated from gunsmithing school (MCC class of '93, gunsmithing 2 yr program) I went work in a job shop that had an American Pacemaker, 20"x 96" with a foot brake. Again, I used it some, but it really wasn't all that useful to me. After all, how many revs are left when you clutch out the spindle and you were only turning 150 RPM. As for cutting a relief groove,,,, not a chance. I thread to the shoulder on a 1" to 1 1/8" dia tenon with 16 or more TPI @ 200RPM in the conventional manner. Childs play...... I've been machining since June of '74. That means I'll be gathering my 44th year of experience beginning in a month, most all of it OJT, not from YouTube. I used to thread a lot of <strong>'gun' </strong>barrels when there has a lot of removable choke tube work. I've been threading <strong>rifle barrel tenons and muzzles</strong> for better than 23 yrs. I've never re-barreled a shotgun where the barrel threaded into the action, so I guess I've never threaded a "<strong> a "GUN"barrel tenon". </strong>Bigngreen gave good advice to the op.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="shortgrass, post: 1309193, member: 24284"] OH! But I DO have experience with foot brakes on lathes! I worked for several yrs. in the tool repair shop in a bearing plant. We had a Wells/Index 10x54 mill and a Nardini 13x40 tool room lathe with a brake. I used the brake several times, on and off, and just never found it useful,,,,,, and I did a lot of threading with it. After I graduated from gunsmithing school (MCC class of '93, gunsmithing 2 yr program) I went work in a job shop that had an American Pacemaker, 20"x 96" with a foot brake. Again, I used it some, but it really wasn't all that useful to me. After all, how many revs are left when you clutch out the spindle and you were only turning 150 RPM. As for cutting a relief groove,,,, not a chance. I thread to the shoulder on a 1" to 1 1/8" dia tenon with 16 or more TPI @ 200RPM in the conventional manner. Childs play...... I've been machining since June of '74. That means I'll be gathering my 44th year of experience beginning in a month, most all of it OJT, not from YouTube. I used to thread a lot of [B]'gun' [/B]barrels when there has a lot of removable choke tube work. I've been threading [B]rifle barrel tenons and muzzles[/B] for better than 23 yrs. I've never re-barreled a shotgun where the barrel threaded into the action, so I guess I've never threaded a "[B] a "GUN"barrel tenon". [/B]Bigngreen gave good advice to the op. [/QUOTE]
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