Making a sharps barrel in my lathe.
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Re: Making a sharps barrel in my lathe.
Hi Guys, Still at it, but here is some more pic`s of it coming along, Homebrew.357.
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Re: Making a sharps barrel in my lathe.
Hi, some more pics of the work done. Homebrew.357.
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Oops, The right hand is not telling the left. The receiver is to big and a lot of it has to come off, So with a lot of elbow grease, sweat, I cut it of with my hack saw. Now it`s starting to look the part. Cheers Homebrew.357.
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I really mean at hack saw, well it is my bush camping saw with a hack saw blade fitted on to it, yep I`m really keen to make this gun go bang,Homebrew.357.
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Re: Making a sharps barrel in my lathe.
Homebrew:
Just found this thread. You are to be complemented on your ingenuity. Fine work, keep on it.
Just found this thread. You are to be complemented on your ingenuity. Fine work, keep on it.
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Hi guys, A bit more, the under lever fits in a slot in the bottom of the receiver and a tee slot at the top of this for the lever spring. So set up again in my angle bracket and with a milling cutter off centre, I slowly cut it out. The tee slot at the top was cut with a made up fly cutter and using the fore jaw chuck to adjust the in feed. All so drilled hole for lever pin, now with a bit of filling, sanding will see if I can get the breech block and lever to work. , Homebrew.357.
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Now a mile stone in this build, I have assembled the breech block and under lever and with a bit of fine tuneing I have got it all working as sweet as, it`s nice and firm with a snug oily fit. I know I had the hole in the breech done, but with my back yard way of doing things I`m amazed it works so good, you know, I just mite get this gun to the bang stage. ,Homebrew.357.
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Hi, Doing some final machining to the receiver now , the under tang back sloping bit and the cartridge feed slot. Set up and fly cut the back slop with a long boring bar , that worked quite well. The cartridge slot was cut with a round nose mill, but I cut a small slot first so it was not to hard for it. The mill cut a
.725" slot, but I needed .800", so I just set the round nose mill off centre a bit till I got the right size.
It`s slowly coming on. Homebrew.357.
.725" slot, but I needed .800", so I just set the round nose mill off centre a bit till I got the right size.
It`s slowly coming on. Homebrew.357.
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Hi, The end result of all the milling is looking good, a case slides into the breech nicely and with a bit more machining to do it`s really starting to look like a 1874 Sharps. ,Homebrew.357.
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Hi guys, Things are coming on good , so thought I`d have a fit out to see if all was going good and it is all working ok, a bit of sanding on the under lever that was a bit tight got it working nice and smooth. The barrel fits in but needs more machining for the final head spacing. With a bit more machining on the receiver to do yet ,but it`s coming along, but slowly. Cheers, Homebrew.357.
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Hi, A bit more work on the receiver, I set it up on my angle plate to fly cut out the area for the side plate to fit. The front has a radis on the top ,so with a bit of thinking outside the square I set it up with the back end in the fore jaw chuck and the front off centre in the tailstock to get the radis. and at the same time I ground the sides of the breech block area as well. I used my drill with a grinding wheel of the right size and as it was grinding, I just rocked it back and forth with the top slide as in feed. Grinding on a lathe is a no no and will quickly stuff up your lathe, unless you take care not to get any grindings on to it, I took great care!. Here are ten pics of how it was done. Cheers, Homebrew.357.
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But wait, there`s a bit more, and yes I covered around the grinding area on the lathe with a cloth to catch all the grindings. Homebrew.357.