Chamber my own barrels???

[Edward Manning]

If you have any desire to do your own barrels I say go for it. I bought a grizzly g4003g lathe about 5 months ago and love it. I hear lots of bad things on foreign lathes but love mine. I had no prior experience or training, mainly you tube and a lot of conversations with a fellow bench shooter. Common sense goes a long way. I won my first yardage on a ppc barrel I chambered, and i have maybe 5000 dollars invested in lathe and tooling.
Dustin

Dustin

what is a list of tools you need for the lathe

 

[hoz53]

Dustin

what is a list of tools you need for the lathe

This is an old thread. Are you asking what tools you will need to do barrel work on a lathe?

 

[butchlambert]

What tools do you need?

You will find out as you go. More than your machine tools.

 

[Dusty Stevens]

You will find out as you go. More than your machine tools.

How long is a string?

 

[paperpuncher]

Edward If you have a lathe and a mill or just a lathe and you are creative you can make a lot of the tools you will need to do barrel work. Its actually great experience to make the tools and fixtures you will need. As far as whats required for tools you will get feel for it as you get more involved in the process. The lathe you pick will dictate some of the tool requirements to some degree. Take a look at the barrel chambering sticky that Butch Lambert posted in the advanced gunsmithing section that will give you some ideas of whats required. I will warn you it can be a real rabbit hole, in all seriousness I find it to be relaxing and rewarding hobby. As somebody else mentioned machine tools are handy to have around just to fix stuff that breaks cars tractors mowers ect
https://forum.accurateshooter.com/threads/130-page-pdf-of-different-chambering-methods.3912170/

 

[Terry]

How long is a string?

4 years, maybe more.

 

[hoz53]

What tools do you need?

so you have a lathe? Look for the Vipers videos on barrel chambering on Utube. He shows what you need on them and explains it.

 

[tobnpr]

4 years, maybe more.

Yet, more people keep piling in with advice for someone that hasn't even been here in a year.
Maybe we should take bets on how long this'll go?

 

[hoz53]

Yet, more people keep piling in with advice for someone that hasn't even been here in a year.
Maybe we should take bets on how long this'll go?

well edward manning asked the question recently, so people probably think he wants to know

 

[338 dude]

Is it a loony idea to buy one of those inexpensive grizzly gunsmith lathes to chamber my own barrels, given that I already have a few reamers? Never run a lathe, or know anything about it. Seems like it takes forever to get anyone to chamber a barrel. Thanks for your opinions!

Been dreaming of doing that for years now but when you spend close to five grand on the lathe and I’m just guessing because I have no experience at all another 2 to 3 grand or more on tooling and then how many barrels it gonna cost you to learn to do it properly just wait on your gun Smith or start using pre-fits

 

[hoz53]

Been dreaming of doing that for years now but when you spend close to five grand on the lathe and I’m just guessing because I have no experience at all another 2 to 3 grand or more on tooling and then how many barrels it gonna cost you to learn to do it properly just wait on your gun Smith or start using pre-fits

that guys thread is 4 years old but it still applies now as there are people out there who feel the same. To me its something to get into if you want to do it, but a person sure doesnt save any money- like advanced reloading only more expensive. There are really good barrel fitters now whos turn around time is very reasonable. And prefits seem to be getting more popular all the time. Still if my guns gonna get a new barrel either i do it or it doesnt get done.