Finished my receiver truing jig.

[butchlambert]

Thanks for the help with the dimensions. I will get it hard Anodized tomorrow.
1st is a cleanup cut on the 3" OD tubing with a 2" ID. I made a fixture to fit in the end of the tubing. The jaws on my Monarch aren't very long.

I parted off one end and trued it. I cut the other end and then trued it to the correct length.

I put it in the mill and drilled holes for both the long action and short action Remington.

I tapped them 1/2X20TPI. Easier to indicate a part in with fine thread.

With the 3 jaw chuck in the indexing head you can not do all 4 holes because the chuck jaw is in the way for one hole. I turned the part around and indicated one of the holes and indexed it 90deg and finished.

I used 1/2x1"x20 tpi SS set screws. I drilled a .296 hole in each .300 deep and them reamed the hole .312. I used .3125 solid copper ground wire that I bought at Home Depot. I made them all .500 in length and pressed them into the setscrews. The setscrews were $1. each. I had to buy a foot of the 3" tubing and it was $32 including shipping.

 

[DMC]

Nice !

 

[Jay Christopherson]

Nice to see that Monarch 10EE going! What a cool lathe. Did the fixture you use on the end of that tube have the end turned down to fit the I.D. of the tube, to give your center something to press into? Like an end cap?

 

[butchlambert]

Yeah Jay, I wouldn't dare turn it without something in the end of the tube. I had to cut a piece of 3" round 303 stainless and yes, I made it a tight slip fit into the tube.
Jay the lathe is so smooth and quiet. All I could hear was the cooling fan that is used to cool all the old vacuum tubes in it.

 

[ab_bentley]

Butch, good looking accessories.

On another note, I have the exact same grinder. Complete with the diamond wheel on the right.

Adam

 

[butchlambert]

Adam,
It is a great grinder. I use it a lot to make my HSS tools and the diamond wheel to dress my carbide cutters. I used to make my own cemented carbide tools. I made a tool holder, silver brazed a piece of carbide on it. Then I took it to a green wheel to rough it out and dressed it with the diamond wheel. Too much trouble today as it is easier to buy whatever you want. In the olden days we had a very limited variety of insert shapes. One of the things I like and use a lot are Warners HSS inserts.

 

[Raythemanroe]

Nice jig.. I never understood why folks with lathes don't build these for themselves..



Ray

 

[butchlambert]

Ray,
If you have a lathe and maybe a drill press you could do it. If I didn't have a mill I think I could use layout die and lay it out and use a drill press to finish it. You really don't need a lathe either for this particular part.

 

[shortgrass]

Ya',, but you need a lathe to use it!

 

[Raythemanroe]

Ya',, but you need a lathe to use it!

Ha ha, ya and you may as well turn it in the lathe..

Ray

 

[Raythemanroe]

Ray,
If you have a lathe and maybe a drill press you could do it. If I didn't have a mill I think I could use layout die and lay it out and use a drill press to finish it. You really don't need a lathe either for this particular part.

Watching YouTube videos of a fella trueing or some chuck barrels up this way, I always hear and I bought this from so and so for $x.. I always thought that why don't you save some money and make it yourself? Glad to see you did.


Ray

 

[Erik Cortina]

Nice job Butch... Can I borrow it? ;D

 

[shortgrass]

Ray,
If you have a lathe and maybe a drill press you could do it. If I didn't have a mill I think I could use layout die and lay it out and use a drill press to finish it. You really don't need a lathe either for this particular part.

Watching YouTube videos of a fella trueing or some chuck barrels up this way, I always hear and I bought this from so and so for $x.. I always thought that why don't you save some money and make it yourself? Glad to see you did.


Ray

Those who buy instead of make are known a "modern" gunsmiths.

 

[butchlambert]

Nice job Butch... Can I borrow it? ;D

Supposedly after a few years a fellow is returning my laboratory grade brass sieves. Would he have sent them back without my running him down?
Erik, of course you can borrow it.

 

[paperpuncher]

Nice job Butch... Can I borrow it? ;D

Supposedly after a few years a fellow is returning my laboratory grade brass sieves. Would he have sent them back without my running him down?
Erik, of course you can borrow it.

I was at the scrapyard a few days ago ad they had gaylord boxes full of those brass sieves. They appeared to be new seemed like a shame to scrap them but perhaps they were defective or out of spec

 

[butchlambert]

Why didn't you buy them. Mine were $100 ea.