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Post by frankenfab on Aug 22, 2019 14:42:45 GMT -5
Made 4 barrel vices and an action wrench at work Saturday. Got the gun completely disassembled today. I made the action wrench from a Red Oak 4x4 from one of the big pallets that our sheet stock comes in on. One end fits small frames, and the other, large frames.
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Post by frankenfab on Aug 22, 2019 14:43:56 GMT -5
That big purple stick behind the barrel vice is 24 usable inches of Douglas XX Premium .32 caliber barrel blank. Current plan is to do a 5.5" octagon on this one with an integral sight base that takes Freedom Arms blades.
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.30 Stingray
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Post by rkrcpa on Aug 22, 2019 15:54:20 GMT -5
Sounds like a great plan!
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Post by frankenfab on Sept 3, 2019 18:30:42 GMT -5
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Post by wheelguns on Sept 3, 2019 18:57:34 GMT -5
Your pictures aren’t showing up. It is a shame because a 327 with an octagon barrel interests me greatly. I bought a bubba’ed up single seven bisley for a project and can’t make up my mind whether I want an octagon barrel or a round barrel with a barrel band sight.
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Post by squawberryman on Sept 4, 2019 19:00:18 GMT -5
Not a single six but eight sided
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Post by wheelguns on Sept 4, 2019 19:19:22 GMT -5
That’s a beauty! Details please.
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Post by 2 Dogs on Sept 4, 2019 20:19:26 GMT -5
I like your front sight brother!! ;-)
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Post by squawberryman on Sept 5, 2019 4:22:53 GMT -5
This was pre Fermin mass advertising. Old 357 sent to Alan Harton. Power Custom two piece frame, eight sided barrel, Fermin front sight, steel ERH.
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Post by frankenfab on Sept 5, 2019 9:19:58 GMT -5
Did I get the pics fixed?
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Post by z1r on Sept 5, 2019 10:02:11 GMT -5
Did I get the pics fixed? Indeed. They look great, nice work.
Will be doing something similar some time this Fall/Winter. I plan to rebarrel an Uberti Falling block from .357 to .256 WM with a half octagon, half round barrel.
Looking forward to seeing more pics as you progress with the project.
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Post by frankenfab on Sept 5, 2019 14:23:53 GMT -5
Got my forcing cone cut at 11 degrees using a small end mill as a boring bar. Started measuring things to set my BC gap, and man was I dissapointed in what I found. The cylinder nose is short, so the cylinder face contacts the barrel, and there's still a gap at the gas ring. No wonder it had over .008" BC gap. Soooo, I'm going to have to order a piece of pre-hardened material and put a bushing in the cylinder to make things right.
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Post by frankenfab on Sept 5, 2019 15:14:43 GMT -5
So here's where I'm at. I'm going to wait to start milling the flats until I have the cylinder bushed. Once the cylinder fit and BC gap are where I want them, I'll index the first flat off the top of the frame with the barrel installed, then remove the barrel and cut all 8 sides in relation to my index. I'm not going to use a rotary indexer to cut the barrel flats. I'll just slab out 4 sides in a regular milling vice, milling off the top, and use an angle block to rotate 45 degrees and start the last 4 sides.
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Post by Encore64 on Sept 5, 2019 15:18:06 GMT -5
Very nice work and great pictures. Really appreciate you posting them as you progress on the project.
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Post by wheelguns on Sept 5, 2019 15:18:40 GMT -5
I like the looks of that forcing cone. One of my single sevens has a forcing cone like yours, and the forcing cone on the other is about a 1/2” long. I don’t understand how they can differ so much with the same brand new guns. Awesome work! I wish I had the tools and patience to do something like that.
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