I'm About to Chamber My First Barrel; Any Advice?

[Ggmac]

No reason for dishonesty. Essentially, I don't care what anyone on here thinks of me. And please, don't misunderstand, I am on here to learn. But in no way am I trying to impress anyone. I've done things in my career that most dream about. I've shot TV. I've been on TV. I've been flown privately to do hair. I've worked with actresses, actors, models, and uber-wealthy doyennes with names people recognize. But at the end of the day, none of it matters. All that matters is that I'm honestly representing myself for who and what I am. Nothing more. Any "glories" aren't mine anyway.
So, why not be honest?

I messed up. I forgot to take out the ejector which messed up my headspace. When I went to try and fix it, I got in a rush and crashed my jig into my QCTP. Sheared some of the bolts off. At the end of the day, it'll cost me some bolts and gain me more experience. All good. I left my shop with all my fingers and eyeballs intact. I actually had a good chuckle about it with a friend on the phone.

I'll take a couple of days and get back at it Wednesday evening. I'll hit the tool supply house tomorrow. All good.

I offered once before, if you get a trip to Palm beach Florida, I'll give yo a few hands on work . Even have a spare car you can use while here .
Gary

 

[Bully]

I offered once before, if you get a trip to Palm beach Florida, I'll give yo a few hands on work . Even have a spare car you can use while here .
Gary

Hey Gary.
I don’t remember the offer, but given my mental proclivities, that’s not surprising. I appreciate it and may take you up on it. I will shoot you a PM later this evening.
Christopher

 

[Ggmac]

Hey Gary.
I don’t remember the offer, but given my mental proclivities, that’s not surprising. I appreciate it and may take you up on it. I will shoot you a PM later this evening.
Christopher

I believe we were talking about a mentor and I suggested Bob at shooters corner , New Jersey. Maybe my getting mixed up .

 

[Bully]

I believe we were talking about a mentor and I suggested Bob at shooters corner , New Jersey. Maybe my getting mixed up .

I got in touch with him. He’s not interested in taking anyone on.

 

[Ggmac]

I got in touch with him. He’s not interested in taking anyone on.

I know that , you told me that shortly after you talked to him .
It was a bout August 11 2017 . When I told you I was from Pequannock, and uncle had a gun shop on art 23 in pompon plains . Sportsman den . Grew up running around the place then started by sweeping floors.
Anyway , the older you get the more you need to check to make sure it ( conversation) actually happened .
Offers open just give me a little heads up .
Gary

 

[Bully]

I know that , you told me that shortly after you talked to him .
It was a bout August 11 2017 . When I told you I was from Pequannock, and uncle had a gun shop on art 23 in pompon plains . Sportsman den . Grew up running around the place then started by sweeping floors.
Anyway , the older you get the more you need to check to make sure it ( conversation) actually happened .
Offers open just give me a little heads up .
Gary

Will do and thank you!

 

[alinwa]

..............Anyway , the older you get the more you need to check to make sure it ( conversation) actually happened .

Gary

Dude, this one post is worth the whole thread!

you been readin' my mail?

 

[ckaberna]

Following religiously, am in the same position as you and wanting to learn ......what’s the latest? I will update on my chambering once I get started.
Kevin

 

[Bully]

Following religiously, am in the same position as you and wanting to learn ......what’s the latest? I will update on my chambering once I get started.
Kevin

Hey Kevin.
I am changing up my work holding method and need to make a bit of tooling. After that's done I'll get back to work on the barrel. I will update as I move along. Thanks for checking in.

 

[OmegaRed]

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[boltman223]

Hey Kevin.
I am changing up my work holding method and need to make a bit of tooling. After that's done I'll get back to work on the barrel. I will update as I move along. Thanks for checking in.

What are you making?

 

[dskogman]

One other important thing to know is where the emergency shut off is and actually practice using it.
My threading lever stuck and ran too far Luckily I caught it before it broke anything but still had to cut off the tenon and start over.

 

[Bully]

What are you making?

Just a spider for the back end of my headstock. I'm thinking to do this barrel thru the headstock, "Old School" style and move on to other methods as my skill set and tooling inventory increases.

 

[Dusty Stevens]

Just a spider for the back end of my headstock. I'm thinking to do this barrel thru the headstock, "Old School" style and move on to other methods as my skill set and tooling inventory increases.

Thru the headstock is not old school, its quite new actually. Reading the net would lead you to believe you cant chamber a barrel right without going thru the headstock but its quite the contrary. You need to learn every method available to chamber. You never know what kind of weird stuff pops up from time to time.

 

[hoz53]

Thru the headstock is not old school

Yes thats wat i was thinking—old school to me is steady rest

 

[Bully]

Thru the headstock is not old school, its quite new actually. Reading the net would lead you to believe you cant chamber a barrel right without going thru the headstock but its quite the contrary. You need to learn every method available to chamber. You never know what kind of weird stuff pops up from time to time.

Yes thats wat i was thinking—old school to me is steady rest

Thanks gents. Fair enough.
What I meant by my comment is that using the 4 jaw and a spider on the back end seems "old school" compared to what I see many using, some sort of "True-Bore" type system. Nothing more.
I would love to learn to do it in the steady however my machine did not come with one and tracking one down is like looking for a leprechaun dancing in a pool of unicorn tears. Tough to find. Eventually I will figure something out as I feel I will need one at some point. For now, I'm using what I've got.
Thanks again.

 

[butchlambert]

You might want to study this. A lot of information.
http://forum.accurateshooter.com/threads/130-page-pdf-of-different-chambering-methods.3912170/

 

[hoz53]

Thanks gents. Fair enough.
What I meant by my comment is that using the 4 jaw and a spider on the back end seems "old school" compared to what I see many using, some sort of "True-Bore" type system. Nothing more.
I would love to learn to do it in the steady however my machine did not come with one and tracking one down is like looking for a leprechaun dancing in a pool of unicorn tears. Tough to find. Eventually I will figure something out as I feel I will need one at some point. For now, I'm using what I've got.
Thanks again.

I didn’t mean you should necessarily try the steady test. I wouldn’t chamber one that way unless I had to.

 

[shortgrass]

Several years ago I stumbled upon a Pratt & Whitney dedicated chambering machine. It had a single spindle and was a turret lathe of sorts. Instead of the turret in the position we are accustom to seeing, it was on end and had 8 stations. All 8 sockets faced the spindle but it would index to the next station just like you'd expect a turret lathe to do, by operating the manual feed wheel . The machine was equipped with a muzzle flush system which appeared to be original to the machine. It was built on the same frame as the P&W single station rifling machine. It was a real 'beast' of a lathe. It had no cross slide. It was obvious, looking at the machine, that the barrel was "thru the spindle". The machine was of WW2 vintage. So, thru the spindle ain't all that new!

 

[hoz53]

Several years ago I stumbled upon a Pratt & Whitney dedicated chambering machine. It had a single spindle and was a turret lathe of sorts. Instead of the turret in the position we are accustom to seeing, it was on end and had 8 stations. All 8 sockets faced the spindle but it would index to the next station just like you'd expect a turret lathe to do, by operating the manual feed wheel . The machine was equipped with a muzzle flush system which appeared to be original to the machine. It was built on the same frame as the P&W single station rifling machine. It was a real 'beast' of a lathe. It had no cross slide. It was obvious, looking at the machine, that the barrel was "thru the spindle". The machine was of WW2 vintage. So, thru the spindle ain't all that new!

yep its all in a persons point of view. more interesting to me is the lathe you describe. would be interesting to know where it was used and for what. where did you ever see that.