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Rifles, Reloading, Optics, Equipment
Gunsmithing
Which new lathe?
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<blockquote data-quote="dragonfly" data-source="post: 1632405" data-attributes="member: 108473"><p>There are several good gunsmith lathes, probably anyone of the quality lathes would do your job. The things I think are important are the features that are going to make your job easier. You want a lathe that has a fairly narrow head stock that will allow you to extend both ends of your barrel blank giving you the ability to indicate or line up both ends of the barrel for perfect total run out. You want a spindle RPM range that will allow the slower revs. for chamber reaming. You want a tailstock with torque control when clamping if possible. Grizzly has an excellent gunsmith lathe with all these features, for about 8k dollars, well within your budget. Hope this helps.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dragonfly, post: 1632405, member: 108473"] There are several good gunsmith lathes, probably anyone of the quality lathes would do your job. The things I think are important are the features that are going to make your job easier. You want a lathe that has a fairly narrow head stock that will allow you to extend both ends of your barrel blank giving you the ability to indicate or line up both ends of the barrel for perfect total run out. You want a spindle RPM range that will allow the slower revs. for chamber reaming. You want a tailstock with torque control when clamping if possible. Grizzly has an excellent gunsmith lathe with all these features, for about 8k dollars, well within your budget. Hope this helps. [/QUOTE]
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