well as some of you may remember i was asking about crowning tools, the ones that have the pilot that goes in the bore. Well we all know the safest and most effective way to get that perfect crown is on a lathe, But what if your on a budget ? what if you dont feel safe sending your rifle out or what if you simply dont wanna fool around with taking your barrel out of the action ?
A forum member here let me borrow his crowning tool and it was so easy and quick i though i would write a vary short and none scientific write up about this since their was a small debate on my last post about crowning tools.
Below i will tell you just how i did this almost step by step, i didnt decide to get pix until i was done, and was just so excited on how easy and smooth things went i though i should share.
Step 1. When you put your barrel in the vise slope the barrel muzzle down, it dont have to be straight down just in a slope so no chips will fall down into your bore.
Step 2. put some grease on your pilot, this will keep it spinning smoothly and help ensure that it doesnt make any marks in your bore
step 3 the rough cut. as you cut into your barrels face ( at least for me any way ) their will be some chatter, i didnt use a tap handle, instead i used my hand it helped me feel what the cutter was doing, and i could feel it skipping and hopping as i pressed it against the barrels face and was cutting away, dont forget to add some oil as you cut along.
not a good pic but note the choppy chatter
Step 4 the fine cut and Finnish: after you get this rough cut pull the tool out and spray it with starting fluid and then hit it with some air from the air compressor, spray some starting fluid up in the muzzle to clean it out and was the chips out, its also not a bad idea to run an otis cleaning line or cable down threw the bore and pull what ever is left in the muzzle down and out, their you are chip free in the bore. next take your tool apart and clean it, the tool is designed so if you use it with the muzzle facing up its got a really cool place it stores the chips as seen below. clean this area and apply eaither grease or some sort of molly or heck even motor oil will work, then reinstall the sleave and screw.
OK your tool is completely cleaned and now their is fresh oil or greas under and on the pilot and back in the bore it goes only this time your are not pushing hard your just lightly spinning the tool and putting vary vary easy pressure aginst it, what this does is clean the chatter off the end, and as you feel less and less skipping back off on how much pressure you apply, when you feel it spinning smoothly check your progress.
untill its pretty darn smooth, now dispite the chips this is what we end up with.
A forum member here let me borrow his crowning tool and it was so easy and quick i though i would write a vary short and none scientific write up about this since their was a small debate on my last post about crowning tools.
Below i will tell you just how i did this almost step by step, i didnt decide to get pix until i was done, and was just so excited on how easy and smooth things went i though i should share.
Step 1. When you put your barrel in the vise slope the barrel muzzle down, it dont have to be straight down just in a slope so no chips will fall down into your bore.
Step 2. put some grease on your pilot, this will keep it spinning smoothly and help ensure that it doesnt make any marks in your bore
step 3 the rough cut. as you cut into your barrels face ( at least for me any way ) their will be some chatter, i didnt use a tap handle, instead i used my hand it helped me feel what the cutter was doing, and i could feel it skipping and hopping as i pressed it against the barrels face and was cutting away, dont forget to add some oil as you cut along.
not a good pic but note the choppy chatter
Step 4 the fine cut and Finnish: after you get this rough cut pull the tool out and spray it with starting fluid and then hit it with some air from the air compressor, spray some starting fluid up in the muzzle to clean it out and was the chips out, its also not a bad idea to run an otis cleaning line or cable down threw the bore and pull what ever is left in the muzzle down and out, their you are chip free in the bore. next take your tool apart and clean it, the tool is designed so if you use it with the muzzle facing up its got a really cool place it stores the chips as seen below. clean this area and apply eaither grease or some sort of molly or heck even motor oil will work, then reinstall the sleave and screw.
OK your tool is completely cleaned and now their is fresh oil or greas under and on the pilot and back in the bore it goes only this time your are not pushing hard your just lightly spinning the tool and putting vary vary easy pressure aginst it, what this does is clean the chatter off the end, and as you feel less and less skipping back off on how much pressure you apply, when you feel it spinning smoothly check your progress.
untill its pretty darn smooth, now dispite the chips this is what we end up with.
