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Thanks Jim, worked like a charm however the one I got my hands on didn't have a dog for the pointer for moving front and back which would have made it a little easier. Whats really funny is my son who is an accomplished machinist but knows little of firearms outside cleaning them was looking at another M1
barrelled action as a visual that was hand tight so I could explain what I was doing and the first thing he said was all we have to do is remove enough material from the stub to get it to clock and clamp the receiver in the mill vise to get it level and then as he turned everything around in is hands looking at it again he wanted to work off a milled flat at the bottom of the ring and then make a tool to turn the barrel! I explained it doesn't work like that and when he looked at everything again he said who the hell made this? And what kind of machine did they use to put this together? He just kept turning it around studying it amazed. I never asked what he was thinking about but I have an idea. Brian.
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The CURVED "guides" for the cartridge lifter inside the receiver are classic.
How many of these things got churned out in what was really only a few years of "serious" production? And many in factories that had never made anything like it. International Harvester?
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Originally Posted by
Bruce_in_Oz
International Harvester?
They were used to making machinery...so lathe and mill work was within their realm of reality...
Originally Posted by
Doco overboard
clamp the receiver in the mill vise to get it level
That's the beauty of the angle meter I showed you, you don't need to be level to get it correct. I have the vise and wrench and angle meter now and will keep them. They're paid for and invaluable...not magic but worth keeping.
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They were used to making machinery...so lathe and mill work was within their realm of reality...
That's the beauty of the angle meter I showed you, you don't need to be level to get it correct. I have the vise and wrench and angle meter now and will keep them. They're paid for and invaluable...not magic but worth keeping.
The angle meter works very well. My holding device for the barrel vise is a 20ton press. It's the only thing bolted to the floor and doesn't move and shake while trying to tighten the barrel. The press is not exactly level and the barrel vice I use has no provisions to "rotate" the barrel to level position.
The angle finder works great for me.
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mac1911
The angle finder works great for me.
Great to hear. As soon as I tried it I had success too. If you're off one degree at one end, you can match that at the other. Then at the range you're good. No more issues. Not bad for about $15 CDN...
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