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I'm building an M40A1 action for a customer. He asked for it to be bead blasted and black oxided as well as threaded with a discreet thread protector. It's all done and going out for black oxide tomorrow.        This was a neat project. Tony. Owner, TonyBen, LLC, Type-07 FFL www.tonybenm14.com (Site under construction). e-mail: tonyben@tonybenm14.com | ||
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Very nice work!!! Archerman | |||
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Great work. | |||
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| Yeah, that M14 video guy... |
Thanks! Oh, and I just realized I posted this in the wrong forum! I meant to post this in the rifle room. Tony. Owner, TonyBen, LLC, Type-07 FFL www.tonybenm14.com (Site under construction). e-mail: tonyben@tonybenm14.com | |||
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| Leftists, what more needs to be said? |
Nicely done | |||
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Beautiful! I’ve got a PVA Osprey barrel done just like that and it’s so seamless that it just exudes quality and craftsmanship. “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” | |||
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Yes that fits the definition of discreet. Nice work! "The left can't applaud me because their hands are in other people's pockets." - Javier Milei | |||
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| Bodhisattva |
Very impressive work! | |||
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Well done couldn't see the break until you separated the thread protector | |||
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Beautiful craftsmanship. _____________________________________________ I may be a bad person, but at least I use my turn signal. | |||
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Sweet! That looks great sir!!  'veritas non verba magistri' | |||
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| 7.62mm Crusader |
Very nice benny but, you need to slow your feed rate turning as the tool marks are telling. If not an insert tool than its time to grind your cutter. Perhaps a rad at the nose and a finish cut. | |||
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Good progression of skills on the lathe. Always need to have blue OR towels on the work bench. | |||
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| Yeah, that M14 video guy... |
It won't typically be an issue, but this barrel was a Bartlein M40A1 barrel. Frank at Bartlein told me they purposely made it with coarse machining marks to replicate some of the actual GI barrels that he evaluated personally. I actually cut this with the compound by hand as I don't have the barrel taper attachment for my lathe, so I couldn't use the power feed function. I tried on earlier attempts to match the machinging marks, but turning the crank by hand was too inconsistent. This is the only barrel I've ever worked on with aggressive machining like that. The bead blasting helps though. For all other barrels with fine machining, it should be completely concealed after bead blasting.
Thanks! The wife is an OR nurse. Tony. Owner, TonyBen, LLC, Type-07 FFL www.tonybenm14.com (Site under construction). e-mail: tonyben@tonybenm14.com | |||
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Amazing work, always respected and admired great machine work. | |||
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| Yeah, that M14 video guy... |
I just got the barrel back from black oxide today.    I think it came out well. Tony. Owner, TonyBen, LLC, Type-07 FFL www.tonybenm14.com (Site under construction). e-mail: tonyben@tonybenm14.com | |||
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Understatement. It looks FANTASTIC!! ___________________________________________ Life Member NRA & Washington Arms Collectors Mistake not my current state of joshing gentle peevishness for the awesome and terrible majesty of the towering seas of ire that are themselves the milquetoast shallows fringing my vast oceans of wrath. Velocitas Incursio Vis - Gandhi The good thing is that if Plan A fails, there are 25 other letters in the alphabet. | |||
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Beautiful finished product! “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” | |||
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Very Nice Job! | |||
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