BuffaloBill
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I have to say all this looks like over kill to me. I've chambered over 7,000 barrels the last 13 years and all I used was a Haas 1/8 HP pump and reservoir.
They beat a path to his door with your money. Id bet its more than 2Wow that's an average of 2 barrels per day if your talking 5 day work week. $100 per chamber job, $700,000. How you find that many customers?
what material and diameter did you use to make that?Built a direct mount fixture for short stuff.
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what material and diameter did you use to make that?
It adds up when you get barrels in 125 at a time. I did all of Accuracy Internationals barrels for 3 three year plus some large OEM contracts and a few other large jobs.Wow that's an average of 2 barrels per day if your talking 5 day work week. $100 per chamber job, $700,000. How you find that many customers?
AI had a US builder doing there barrels, that’s pretty cool.It adds up when you get barrels in 125 at a time. I did all of Accuracy Internationals barrels for 3 three year plus some large OEM contracts and a few other large jobs.
You don't really have to have the action but you do need the old bbl and a ring that will thread up to the shoulder on the tenon. Run the ring up to the shoulder, tranfer a mark onto the ring that lines up with the existing engraving. Then, do the same on the new bbl. The engraving goes where the mark on the ring is. Make sense? This doesn't time where the thread starts, per se but it's the only reason I've ever had to time a bbl relative to the one that came off, and it works for that.Prefits are easy.. but timing the barrel isn't possible if you don't have the action in hand.
You don't really have to have the action but you do need the old bbl and a ring that will thread up to the shoulder on the tenon. Run the ring up to the shoulder, tranfer a mark onto the ring that lines up with the existing engraving. Then, do the same on the new bbl. The engraving goes where the mark on the ring is. Make sense? This doesn't time where the thread starts, per se but it's the only reason I've ever had to time a bbl relative to the one that came off, and it works for that.
Mine's like that too, bigger and heavier than it has to be but it works. About 1.500 od and about 8 in long. I threaded it to 1-1/16-18 to a class 2b max. It serves as a ring gage for most any barrel. I've used it enough to have a good feel for if a bbl is tighter or looser than it should be. Just easier than wires or a thread mic but those two things are indispensable.Yeah. I've seen that done. Gordy has one in his class... Basically a clone of an individual action, so he can cut barrels for a customer without them sending the action to him.
I've been using one of these on-demand sprayer pumps. Just put a valve on the output to control the flow. Easy button.
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How long have you been using that pump. I'd be concerned that oil might eat up the diaphragm in short order, but maybe not. Rebuild kit is pretty cheap and easy, if it lasts for a whileI've been using one of these on-demand sprayer pumps. Just put a valve on the output to control the flow. Easy button.
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Make one with marks around it like a tuner and write down say, mark’s barrel is engraved at 14.5. Simple as thatYeah. I've seen that done. Gordy has one in his class... Basically a clone of an individual action, so he can cut barrels for a customer without them sending the action to him.
Nice set up Dave and that is alot of barrels.I have to say all this looks like over kill to me. I've chambered over 7,000 barrels the last 13 years and all I used was a Haas 1/8 HP pump and reservoir. I have a tray to catch chips directly under the barrel. It acts like a settling pond. The drain for it runs over two magnets. Then the oil has to traverse a 18" layer of swarf at the end of my bed. Again a settling pond. Where upon it goes into another tray with one outlet and a magnet. Do I get some transfer to the storage tank? Yes but just enough to discolor the oil.
Now rig up an air line to blow all the oil out. Here's a pic of my setup. I have a foot valve to turn it on and off. Old pic BTW I don't use the tailstock for much of anything any longer.
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I was thinking about that... Seems like it's more in line with the volume and pressure we're dealing with on a manual machine... The interesting thing about that type of pump (same as an RV water pump) is they only run as much and as fast as they need to.