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Post by z1r on May 28, 2024 13:51:24 GMT -5
Howdy all,
I've got some chamber reamers that need to be sharpened. Manson is taking a hiatus of 6-9 months and said that when they do resume, the fee will be 80% of new. Wow!
Wondering if any of you have a source for someone good at sharpening reamers?
Thanks in advance.
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Post by paleroadster on May 29, 2024 6:51:05 GMT -5
Howdy all, I've got some chamber reamers that need to be sharpened. Manson is taking a hiatus of 6-9 months and said that when they do resume, the fee will be 80% of new. Wow! Wondering if any of you have a source for someone good at sharpening reamers? Thanks in advance. What's your location? I have a few grind shops locally. Any serious machine shop near you should have a relationship with at least one. |
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Post by zeus on May 29, 2024 16:00:50 GMT -5
Local shops. The big shops like JGS are expensive and take as long as they do to build a new reamer.
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Post by cas on May 29, 2024 20:29:49 GMT -5
...when they do resume, the fee will be 80% of new. Manson's sharpening prices were always a puzzle to me. I sent my first throating reamer back to them once, maybe twice? And the second time the price WAS like you said, near 80% or more of buying a new one, not counting shipping it and being without it for however long. So after that I just started buying new ones instead. And then at some point down the road, after doing that several times, I learned that the price of sharpening them had dropped back down to economical again so I sent one. So who knows. |
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Post by z1r on May 30, 2024 10:43:04 GMT -5
Yeah, I'm puzzled too. JGS told me the same. Years ago, when PTG was "more reliable", they would do regrinds very affordably and they sharpened reasonably as well.
I hate to rely on some local company, because you just don't know how good they are. For a while, I had a third party shop that was recommended to me by a couple of ACGG members. Sadly, the owner retired and they shuttered the business.
I may have to bite the bullet and buy a new reamer because that 9 month hiatus is more likely to be 18 months.
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Post by squawberryman on May 31, 2024 10:51:53 GMT -5
Waiting on a gun is anticipation, waiting to sharpen a reamer when it's the same price as buying a reamer is procrastination. The great Tom Ringle once said "Why do today what you can put off 'til tomorrow".
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Post by potatojudge on May 31, 2024 12:25:51 GMT -5
Post this over in the accurate shooter classifieds
Lots of those guys do their own gunsmithing a and a number of them do it professionally
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