It "doesn't" damage the threads.
Shortening up action screws
- Thread starter long40shot
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Not if your action screws are metric........ just sayin'.
THATS GOOD!!!!!!!!!
Hard to believe isn't it. Larry
I wished I had stayed out of this one!!
Toolbreaker
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Give three machinists the same job and tell them to figure out the best way to do it. You may get an answer in a year or whenever two of them die or get p.o.'d and start questioning your heritage.
A little off-topic, but years ago when I just started in the trade, I was building a part for myself. I was going to leave it as-is after heat-treating it, so I was smoothing & lapping the tool marks out prior to...i.e. alot of extra hand work. An older toolmaker I worked with asked me what I was doing, so I explained. He said "If you're doing work for a paying customer, build the part to their spec. It's what they're expecting & paying for. If you're doing work for yourself, build the part to your spec. It's what you're expecting & paying for."It took a lil' bit for that one to sink in
BoydAllen
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You guys will laugh, but I bought a cheap Harbor Freight vacuum base vise just for adjusting the length of action screws. It cost less than $20 and has grooved jaws, both horizontally and vertically. For small adjustments I grip the screw vertically in the opposing V grooves, and use a file. The vise stays on a shelf in my closet. My desk has a smooth laminate top that the vacuum base works well on. If I need to take more off, I use a reinforced cutoff wheel on a tool that is similar to a Dremel, double nutting a little long and then finishing as above. The results have been fine this way, and with a sharp fine cut file, the work proceeds at a good pace. Why swat a fly with a sledge hammer?
hogpatrol
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carlsbad
Lions don't lose sleep over the opinions of sheep.
That's why my response was one word. --Jerry
PS New lathe has an extra digit on the DRO so I'll be able to get them more accurate... ;-)
B Nettesheim
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I like to heat them red hot in my forge, put a cut off tool in the hardie hole and with 2 swings of my favorite hammer the screw is now to proper length
by the time you chuck it up, i'll have it cut off and back in the gun.
carlsbad
Lions don't lose sleep over the opinions of sheep.
I fix a lot of things for people who sound just like this....just saying.
Can't you just buy a shorter screw?
hogpatrol
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B Nettesheim
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Other ways could be used too,
-Cutting torch
-Bolt cutter
-Set em on the railroad tracks and the next locomotive that comes by will squeeze the end off
- You could wish them shorter
- You also could shoot them off shorter kinda like they do in the movies
-Cutting torch
-Bolt cutter
-Set em on the railroad tracks and the next locomotive that comes by will squeeze the end off
- You could wish them shorter
- You also could shoot them off shorter kinda like they do in the movies
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