Handguard mount

[Twdmar]

I have a ruger american that I want to make to work like my picture below. Initially I thought I would use a ruger precision barrel but finding a barrel nut is a bust.
Then I remembered how Gary Eliseo puts his handguard on for his savage chassis. Its essentially a cup with a hole drilled through that serves as a round recoil lug. Think something that looks like a hole saw. The barrel nut then tightens it on and the round aluminum handguard attaches to the cup.
Am I right in thinking that this is an easier solution that having a nut made? Another possibility would be to get one of the round lugs from Gary made for a tikka and welding a piece of tubing on to so it.

 

[akajun]

That looks like a WOA match Rifle handguard and Im familiar with how they fit/assemble. The barrel nut is sleeved and grooved and the handguard has setscrews that clamp it.
I would have a barrel nut made, that would be simplest. I made a few for AR-15's for Handguards that Holiinger sold as seconds without nuts. IDK if he sill does that. Making the nuts was not hard.

 

[Twdmar]

That looks like a WOA match Rifle handguard and Im familiar with how they fit/assemble. The barrel nut is sleeved and grooved and the handguard has setscrews that clamp it.
I would have a barrel nut made, that would be simplest. I made a few for AR-15's for Handguards that Holiinger sold as seconds without nuts. IDK if he sill does that. Making the nuts was not hard.

To make a nut, it would have to be threaded inside and out since this is not going on an ar15. Did you do yours for an ar15 or a boltgun? I agree the white oak nut would easy to duplicate but I am not sure if slinging up would loosen just a nut

 

[Stumpy1]

A recoil cup like Gary uses should be pretty easy for any decent machine shop to make. Gary's Savage chassis for one uses that system and it works dandy.

All you would need would be the cup, and then drill the handguard to install the retaining screws.

Frank

 

[akajun]

It shouldnt, it doesnt on my ar 22 space gun which has no gas tube to lock it in place. Sling force would just pull it down not twist it. Im thinking that you would probably break the handquard before that would happen. If your worried about it, a little red loctite would fix that.
If what Im thinking is correct, you would just need to internally thread for the nut to screw down on the barrel, then set the headspace and tighten the nut. The WOA handguard uses no Internal thread so you wouldnt need one. However if you were gonna use a threaded handguard like many ff tubes for ar's
if your set up in the lathe to thread internally, changing tools to cut the external threads is not a big deal.
you have a lathe or you need someone to make this?

 

[Twdmar]

It shouldnt, it doesnt on my ar 22 space gun which has no gas tube to lock it in place. Sling force would just pull it down not twist it. Im thinking that you would probably break the handquard before that would happen. If your worried about it, a little red loctite would fix that.
If what Im thinking is correct, you would just need to internally thread for the nut to screw down on the barrel, then set the headspace and tighten the nut. The WOA handguard uses no Internal thread so you wouldnt need one. However if you were gonna use a threaded handguard like many ff tubes for ar's
if your set up in the lathe to thread internally, changing tools to cut the external threads is not a big deal.
you have a lathe or you need someone to make this?

If I had a lathe, I think I would just make this and see what worked best. The front end of the nut would need to be bored larger than the white oak nut to fit over the barrel tenon. Just before I saw your reply, I was thinking loctite would work. Thank you for the ideas!

 

[Twdmar]

A recoil cup like Gary uses should be pretty easy for any decent machine shop to make. Gary's Savage chassis for one uses that system and it works dandy.

All you would need would be the cup, and then drill the handguard to install the retaining screws.

Frank

Thanks Frank, just have to get something like that made. The savage set up could be the same except it needs a smaller diameter hole than the savage by 1/16".