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THE GUNSMITH MACHINIST
by Steve Acker
Edited by Joe Rice
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This authoritative book provides valuable techniques on the multi-faceted aspects of gunsmithing and firearms fabrication for the home machine shop. A MUST for your advanced gunsmithing library!
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The hobby related to firearms has a way of capturing the interest of certain enthusiasts who not only love to shoot them but also are intrigued with the inner mechanical workings and subtleties of firearm construction. These enthusiasts love to improve, fix and/or fabricate new parts or even whole firearms.
The author of this book---Steve Acker---is one such enthusiast who, by value of his superior expertise and accomplishments, has become a source of guidance and assistance to others. This book is a collection of Acker's gunsmithing and machining articles and columns. As a longtime competitive shooter, he experienced great difficulty getting gunsmith work involving machining completed to his specifications. This need began his study of machining and machine shop topics. Learning to work on his own firearms eventually lead to doing machine work and gunsmithing for other competitors and firearms owners. Here, Acker shares his knowledge of machining techniques common to firearms work, based on actual jobs he has done for his various clients.
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The general gunsmith is one of only a few craftsmen who must be a jack of all trades to be a master of his craft. Machinist, toolmaker, parts fitter, woodworker, metal joiner, metallurgist, and metal finisher are terms that can be used to describe the gunsmith. The use of basic machine tools, jigs and fixtures, and specialized techniques by the gunsmith to get the job done is very similar to the home shop machinist's approach to his work. The strength of the jack of all trades is the cross fertilization of ideas between disciplines. A sharing of the gunsmith's sometimes unusual approach to solving metalworking problems will help the home shop machinist by looking at some jobs in a different way.
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In this volume, step-by-step instructions, calculations, and diagrams lead the reader into projects concerning drilling the receiver for scope mounts, front sights, chambering a rifle barrel, crowning, hammer work, bluing, cutting the rifle barrel thread, welding, and many, many more. This volume also includes numerous highly detailed black and white photographs of his projects in various stages featuring guns such as the Mauser 98, Remington 700, Colt 1911, and others.
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One very interesting chapter deals with building up a sub .450" MOA .223 Remington 700 short action Target Rifle with a Tubb recoil lug, H-S Precision stock and Douglas match barrel. The author guides the reader through all of the machining practices necessary to complete the rifle.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
THE GUNSMITH MACHINIST
Aligning Scope Mounts
A Travel Measurement Plate
A Barrel Bushing Jig
Installing Sight Beads
Cutting a Rifle Crown
Enlarging the Ejection Port-Colt 1911
A Fixture for Milling the Recoil Lug
Hammer Work
Making a Dovetail Front Sight
Sight Holding Fixtures
A Gunsmith's Lathe Helper
Installing a Front Sight
Making Rifle Bedding Pillars
Milling Grasping Grooves
Moving a Firing Pin Hole
Trigger Job Pins
A Barrel Vise
Centering a Barrel Bore
Chambering a Rifle Barrel-Mauser 98
Cutting Rifle Barrel Threads-Mauser 98
Drilling and Tapping for Scope Mounts
Finding and Making Gun Parts
Installing a Locking Base Pin
Optimizing Revolver Throats
A Rear Sight Shifter
Replacing an Integral Front Sight
Stronger Scope Installation
An Unusual Scope Mount
Installing a Screw-in Choke Adapter
Removing a Broken Screw
Installing a Pre-threaded Short Chambered Rifle Barrel
A Post-ban AR-15 Muzzle Brake
OTHER GUNSMITH TOPICS
Hot Bluing Steel
Building a Target Rifle-Remington 700 Short action
GENERAL MACHINING TOPICS
Checkering in the Mill
Steve Makes a Mistake
Handy File Cleaner
Making Pin Punches
Cutting Steel with a Circular Saw Blade
A Simple Phase Converter
Upgrading to Variable Speed DC
Making and Using a Bench Block
Tap Wrenches from Scrap
The Mirror-faced Hammer
A Mill-drill Repair
A 5C Collet Fixture Tailstock
Machining an Angle Plate
A Welding Tip
Making a Hardened Steel Washer
Personal Safety and Machine Grounding
A Low-cost Bead Blaster
A Wooden Work Support in the Mill
Building a Hydraulic Press Twice
Hardcover. 8 1/2x11. 214 pages. High quality, glossy coated paper stock. Numerous black and white photos. BRAND NEW!
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