Receiver threads on 700

[TroyMN]

I will post a picture of my receiver, but I have a question about why it looks like this. Do stock Remingtons normally have kinda (chattery?) thread grooves? I bought the rifle used. It did have a different barrel 6mmIA also the bolt face looked to be trued. I think there is a reasonable chance the receiver was trued but have no proof. The picture of the threads, is that normal looking for a stock Remington? Was it possibly recut with a single point tool on a lathe with slop? Is that what causes the skipping/ (chattering)?

Thanks
Troy

 

[Dans40X]

Most likely chased w/ a tap.

Is it + 1.062" pitch diameter?

 

[Eddie Harren]

+1 on the tap.

 

[milliron]

troy, that looks like the threads were cleaned up with a tap, i have done many like it. the chatter marks are factory,you paid extra for them. judging by the smooth receiver face, i would say that it has been trued also. i can just see a small portion of the locking abutment in your picture, it to looks to be cleaned up also. a factory receiver would show bluing except where the lugs bare. the only down side to all this is that if too much was taken off the locking abutments it will lessen your extraction camming force when you raise the bolt handle. usually when work like this is done to the receiver the rear of the bolt lugs are cleaned up also. removing too much metal from either surface is what causes the problem.however you can correct this if it is a problem by moving the bolt handle forward about .010. you can check this by the position of the bolt handle in the receiver notch, it should be spaced no more than half way between each side. other wise i seenothing wrong in the picture, barrel it and shoot it, you will know then if extraction is a problem. don t worry about the chatter on the threads, just fit the barrel to them when you rebarrel it. if its not broken, don t fix it. henry

 

[Jim See]

Looks to me the reciever face was polished and not lathe cut, click on the pic and circulate thru the album for details.

I would say with 99% certainty that those are the factory threads after looking thru your album. I have single point re-threaded somewhere north of 100 remingtons and have seen at least 20 receivers with the same factory chatter, and the dead give-away is the chamfer at the front of the action that is deeper than the thread also has the same chatter. Also in an album pc you can see the broaching divot on the thread tops from when the race-ways were cut.

 

[jsthntn247]

Man that action has some serious shine to it. Looks like it was chromed.

 

[TroyMN]

Man that action has some serious shine to it. Looks like it was chromed.

I have been off work do to back surgery. The recoil lug alignment tool did not come until this week so I had WEEKS to polish the trigger guard and receiver. Also working on refinishing/ sanding stock. []Now I am moving on to more productive steps bedding, mounting scope, finding my O-give length. Then I can work up a load, just can not shoot it... I can only lift 10 lbs. I think the stock barrel and receiver are pushing that limit.

 

[Ggmac]

Have had 4 back surg. Do not over due it , and good luck with recovery and shootin ,
Gary