Gunsmithing 1976 R700 from 243 to 6.5CM
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If you're gonna have a gunsmith rebarrel it and you want it back quickly, send it to Longrifles Inc.
If you're rebarreling it yourself, good luck getting the old barrel off.
If you're rebarreling it yourself, good luck getting the old barrel off.
Sent an email to Dresdens. Called me back. On a Sunday. I was busy and didnt have my fone on me. He said call him tomorow. And thanks for all the replies. Many of the names of shops in Ohio dont sound familiar. Did alot of these Ohio shops just open in the last couple years?
I called around to several places several years ago when I was trying to figure out what caliber to step up to. I really didnt want a 338 but it seemed like at the time nobody wanted to help me. I drove up to Kelblys and they helped me install my Jewell trigger right there in their shop but didnt seem like they wanted to deal with a barrel swap
I took off a ‘77 barrel a few months back and made it into a 450 Bushmaster for Ohio hunting. I ended up chucking it in the lathe and cutting a relief cut in the barrel and it came right off. I wasn’t equipped to get all those years of corrosion loose via the normal method. Also, the 40 year old walnut cleaned up nicely. I was pleased for just being a no talent bum with a garage lol.
Anyhow, figured I’d throw in my 2 cents since we had such similar guns to start with.
Anyhow, figured I’d throw in my 2 cents since we had such similar guns to start with.
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Broke one loose today, 1969 by proof mark.
Little bit of heat to warm up the thread locker, pipe wrench on the barrel and a defiance wrench. Then I swore at it and grunted and it popped loose.
Maybe I got lucky that I didn't have any real rust. I did kroil the threads from the inside a few weeks ago.
(Yes, it's a mess, but I somehow know where things are in the organized chaos).
Little bit of heat to warm up the thread locker, pipe wrench on the barrel and a defiance wrench. Then I swore at it and grunted and it popped loose.
Maybe I got lucky that I didn't have any real rust. I did kroil the threads from the inside a few weeks ago.
(Yes, it's a mess, but I somehow know where things are in the organized chaos).
If we missed you I apologize. Phones here typically go in cycles. They'll blow up in the am right at 8, again around 10am, and yet again around 1-2. The east coast generates a great deal of our phone traffic. I always know when its break time, lunch time, or end of day there, lol.
I have 4 lines coming in and its not uncommon for 4 diffrent people to be catching calls. So, again. Sorry that we missed you. Were happy to help and we can have a job like this knocked out pretty quick.
The phones are what compelled me to invest the effort in our website the way I have. My intent is to hopefully allow clients to educate themselves on what we have here. By doing it that way, it keeps us on the floor making chips. That keeps the lead times reasonable and the work just circulates so much more efficiently. Every person here spends roughly 16hours per month on the phone. I've tracked it. I'd have a 48hour cycle on most of our work if I could figure out a way to reduce that reality. Truth is there isn't. Everyone here is vetted on the job they perform. Hiring a "gum smacker" to catch phones doesn't solve the problem, it just delays the inevitable because you ultimately need to chat with someone who can provide a factual, detailed response.
The joys of business, lol.
Again, sorry we missed you.
C.
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Chad,
Shouldn’t you be having some birthday cake now instead of surfing the inter webs? ?
100+ ops with 5 axis swarf tool paths take a little time to regenerate when your making changes. . . lol.
Sounds like you need a better IT guy. If you're using fusion 360 I know mine got much, much faster when I went to a current generation CPU and video card.
Fusion? Meh. No thanks.
SW19/MasterCam19 with full live 5th and SW integration.
I've looked at Fusion. The Post Processor makes me want to slit my wrists. It's likely gotten better since I last took a peak, but I have 24+ years on MasterCam software. Great support. You pay for it, but its worth it because everything always works and when I have a question, I make a call and get an answer immediately.
It's not an IT problem. This computer has the horsepower to run NORAD. It's just very computation intensive when performing 5 axis moves with translated tool paths on multiple offsets. It also takes a little time to process the STL files for the simulator. I run almost everything on this machine through the sim before actually going to work on the machine. Just too much money to "hold my beer..." it.
I'd love to have a seat of "vericut" but that's another $50+ thousand bucks. Vericut actually backplots the NC code where's most CAM sims are using NCI files to generate the graphics. It's good, but not "nc code good". Hasn't f$%#@!d me yet so I'll stick with it.
