Recent content by Yooper

You are absolutely right! This one is better (worse) than the first one. Chair vise, disassembled way more than he had to, and he forgot to mention his secret trick. You must perform this task barefoot.😂

That’s just cool as hell!

Love that new machine smell even if it’s not new!

This is why I get nervous at the range when someone shows up that I don’t know.🤦‍♂️

4140 is common for steel barrels and 416 is common for stainless barrels that are advertised as such. McMaster stocks both. I agree with you about the practice part especially if you haven’t done a lot of single point threading. Two gunsmiths I know use range rods to set up their barrels. I...

I prefer a radius thread relief so I don’t create a stress riser, or put more plainly, a place for a crack to start. But to answer your question, you can create the thread relief with anything. If using a parting tool for instance, slow the speed way down to prevent chatter. As far as threading...

You get the opportunity to build some nice fixtures for holding barrels and such. I've got a Rem 700 action in this fixture but it can also be used for pistol barrels. The set screws are brass tipped and I got them at McMaster. Another useful tool is radius cutters for thread relief. Ordered...

Be patient with me. I have a whole bunch of stuff to go over with you. Or maybe take a fall color trip over the bridge to Green Bay and see it in person. I’ll be posting soon with pictures/videos.

I promise you the mill will be a game changer. Any tooling with it? No, I have never seen a chuck like that.

Great craftsmanship! Nice attention to detail!

Is it possible to limit the stroke on the crimper?

Excellent work! BTW, your welds are not going to hurt anybody’s eyes.👍

Yeah, plasma fumes are a really small particulate that is hard to filter and probably not good for the lungs. One suggestion I would offer is to try and capture the fumes as close to the torch as possible. Another thing to consider is the air that you exhaust has to be replaced, meaning you have...

You can always split it in half and count the rings! Sorry, I tried to resist but my smarta$$ brain finally took over. Carry on!

Bill, what you experienced is unique to single phase capacitor start motors. And yes, we share the same discovery experience 😉🤣. I believe RWS has a three phase motor running on a VFD. What I don’t know is if the VFD can handle an instant reverse. I do know you can couple a resistor with most...