The Home Machinist!

Chastise?

I've been in that position many times with machines and tools and have never once wished I had gone with the smaller or cheaper one after I made my decision, but have on a number of occasions wished I had gone with the bigger better more expensive one! If it's something you enjoy doing, just get the...

Chucked up the ground bar in the lathe and roughed the end down to .115" in preparation for grinding. Then dug out the "Grind All" from the closet and zero'd the bar so the small diameter can be ground to fit in the sear bore (.111") and be dead coaxial with the bar.. Once I get the small stub and t...

Does the machine have a metric thread dial (consists of four gears from what I understand) or an "imperial" style dial? (single gear) I don't have a metric lathe, but from what I understand, metric threading on an all metric lathe does not use the same technique as "imperial" threading on an all "im...

I believe you have to leave the leadscrew engaged as you were doing for imperial threads.

Today's contribution was to fit the mainspring housing and did a bit of blending around the grip safety to frame interface.

Wow, that's nice!

I'd darn near buy it just to look at it.

Thank you for the comments.

Nothing too spectacular last night, just ground a section of heat treated steel bar to .808" diameter to start making a sear grinding fixture.

Didn't do much tonight but hone the bore on a couple of mainspring housings and start on a seer jig.

I find that the key to completion on these projects is to post them. That way I feel obligated and guilty if I don't keep progressing!

While waiting for more parts for the frame... I picked up a Springfield Range Officer just before I started this project and took it apart last Saturday to look it over and install a new set of EGW pins in it, as the hammer pin seemed a bit sloppy. It has some Ed Brown tool steel parts in it from th...

Very nice!

The lower cormers of the grip safetywere contacting the frame causing binding. https://i.imgur.com/QJBiHu2l.jpg The relief cut in the frame was then milled .025" longer for clearance. https://i.imgur.com/sXKTHNll.jpg Now the grip safety drops in and has nice even clearance all around. https://i.imgu...