JGS emailed me reamer prints, and answered questions with little delay. I will probably make an order tomorrow. They close at 2 pm?? I had no idea they closed that early!
CHAMBER REAMERS
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I'm working with Lynn at JGS right now getting a custom reamer squared away. She's been extremely helpful and has followed up promptly to my emails.
JGS is my favorite by far, I took two reamers made of the same print, one from Kiff and one from JGS, put one in each end of a barrel stub to get a look at how they came out. The JGS cut so nice you could hardly see the changes in the throat while the Kiff just cut poor in comparison and it was very obvious the changes in the throat. Then there was the little problem of Kiff missing the neck length by .040 then charging for fixing the problem. I will be Kiff'ed no longer!!!!
Most CNC machines will go back and recut for flex in boring bar or wear on tooling. At least my buddy's does. Matt
Yep that is who I am talking about. He just made me dies not long ago. That machine threaded and cut them that fast it was unbelievable. Matt
hogpatrol
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Back in the day when I took 1/2 inch cuts with 1/4 inch feeds we used to call them "spring cuts".
Dusty Stevens
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Yea you can tell it to take 10 spring cuts if you want to. Make it really smooth. Theyre only as smart as the machinist runnin em
Just ordered two reamers from JGS, what a pleasure so far! Cheaper than ordering a cnc lathe!
Aren't they great to do business with?! Someone at the range recommended them, and I'm quite grateful.
Thanks, Steve K.!
Met them at the SHOT show- nice folks.
Dusty Stevens
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Evidently jgs had a machine down and my reamers piled up supposed to ship today 10-12wks from order. But i bet theyll be right when i do finally get em
I have never received a bad reamer...I don't know where to try to even think about getting one that is no good. The most accurate rifle I ever owned in my life was chambered with a JGS...the longest lasting reamer I have is made by Clymer...the ones I use the most is Dave Manson.
As to the CNC.....well, it's like this: the CNC machine is anywhere from $10,000.00 to $20,000.00 plus...a reamer is $100.00 to $125.00. Do the math!!! There will be no reamer companies closing down anytime soon fellas!!!
I didn't know the reamers we all use quit working??? It sort of sounds like they maybe never did work right.
I mean, a chamber can only be cut so on size and straight. I don't see the advantage...especially to the point that the gun chambering world is going to defecate down both legs, throw their chamber reamers in the nearest river and take out a mortgage to buy a CNC asap. I also don't see me or anyone else having to run to the nearest guy that claims to do this and have a barrel chambered just to see if it's "better"....
As to the CNC.....well, it's like this: the CNC machine is anywhere from $10,000.00 to $20,000.00 plus...a reamer is $100.00 to $125.00. Do the math!!! There will be no reamer companies closing down anytime soon fellas!!!
I didn't know the reamers we all use quit working??? It sort of sounds like they maybe never did work right.
I mean, a chamber can only be cut so on size and straight. I don't see the advantage...especially to the point that the gun chambering world is going to defecate down both legs, throw their chamber reamers in the nearest river and take out a mortgage to buy a CNC asap. I also don't see me or anyone else having to run to the nearest guy that claims to do this and have a barrel chambered just to see if it's "better"....
Chappy
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Hi dmoran, who would be your recommendation with a website that one could visit and look around?
You mean $30,000 to $500,0000, don't you?
Well, yeah...you are correct, you can keep right on getting up with the price of some of those machines. It's always funny when someone posts something ridiculous like this...on another forum anytime there's a post about getting lead out of a barrel 6 idiots will immediately post telling how "easy" it can be done by pouring mercury down the tube, which dissolves lead "in a matter of seconds"....maybe it really does, but who really knows??? It not like you can just run on down to the mercury store and pick up a gallon!! Why bother to post crap like this??? Yeah, okay, I wont bother with Dave Manson next time I need a $100 reamer...no, I think I will order one of those $200,000.00 plus dollar CNC machines..yeah, that'll do it!!! Get real guys, I doubt gun manufacturers chamber enough barrels to justify costs like that.
The Haas TL-1 lists for 29,000 + ,,, that's without work (chuck) or tool holding. One might possibly be found on the 'used' market. It'd be no different than buying a used manual lathe, you'd need know what you're looking at. At half the list price you'd have to chamber a lot of barrels for it to be cost effective, even if you already owned a tool box full of reamers. If you'd go the boring bar route, and sell those reamers for whatever you could get for them, is your time spent writing programs free? Are any of the major manufactures chambering with bars? Those machine tools would need to be running 8 hours a day, making something else if not chambering, to justify the cost.
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