how 1917 barrels were really installed.

[Chuckindenver]

some of you have already watched this...but some havent, enjoy.
i did a little digging, this is the Winchester plant. about 1918..if you look at other clips, you see bayonets, stocks, and how they made BARs, and a nice bit of 1903 action
Stock Footage - Workers at machinery manufacture rifles in a factory in the United States during World War 1.

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[browningautorifle]

Much machining I couldn't recognize...vertical mill? The one the young kid was running? The other guy in the beginning was doing screw and pin holes with a jig? All those different drills would be different sizes? Then at 2:45 there's the inspector checking brand new assembled rifles. The ones that are factory correct...the only ones that are factory correct.

It would appear to me that when the barrels are installed, the front sight mortise isn't cut yet. That would be after all is complete...

[Chuckindenver]

i belive the kid was cutting the stripper clip guide..ill have to look as some of the others, they show some barrels being made..you have to go foward and back.

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Stock Footage - Men work at machinery in a rifle manufacturing factory in the United States during World War 1.

[Chuckindenver]

Stock Footage - Reenactment shows Bob Alcorn and Ted Hinton shooting Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.

[jmoore]

Much machining I couldn't recognize...vertical mill? The one the young kid was running? ...

It's an OBI (Open Back, Inclinable) press with a clever precision feed on the removable jig that allows it to be used as a shaper. Probably indeed for the charger guide. Not a use for which I've seen an OBI put to use before. Usually they're for punching holes or forming sheet metal.

The other guy in the beginning was doing screw and pin holes with a jig? All those different drills would be different sizes?...

Yup. Probably drill and reamers. The unused station on the gang drill is probably the tapping head.

It would appear to me that when the barrels are installed, the front sight mortise isn't cut yet. That would be after all is complete...

Either that, or it goes to another station where the final tightening is done.