Neshek
Aluminum
- Joined
- Mar 17, 2010
- Location
- Wimberley, TX
I don't think I'll ever be in the "business" of custom chambering barrels, but as a home shop machinist and a rifle enthusiast I will probably try to do this sometime in the future. So in another thread I got great information about how people check the chamber depth while the barrel is in the lathe. As I thought more about the problem in an AR-15 barrel of matching the combination of:
I know there is a lot of experience here, and so I look forward to hearing your critique of my reasoning. Chambering an AR-15 barrel may seem simple to you guys who do it every day, but it seems rather complicated to me! I'm mostly a firearms instructor and FFL and a kinda machinist so be gentle.
Thanks in advance,
-Art Kauffman (Engineering is doing something poorly, and then doing it again...less poorly)
- barrel extension tennon
- barrel extension manufacturing tolerances
- bolt manufacturing tolerances
I know there is a lot of experience here, and so I look forward to hearing your critique of my reasoning. Chambering an AR-15 barrel may seem simple to you guys who do it every day, but it seems rather complicated to me! I'm mostly a firearms instructor and FFL and a kinda machinist so be gentle.
Thanks in advance,
-Art Kauffman (Engineering is doing something poorly, and then doing it again...less poorly)