When I'm not making instructional machining videos, I actually build stuff. Here's a video montage on an ambitious project I started last year, the building of a Stevens Favorite .22 caliber rifle. Every part is, or will be hand made by me down to the last screw, even the rifled barrel. The original rifle belongs to my uncle and he asked if I could get it working again. I ended up making a new firing pin for it and fitting a new extractor. I liked the rifle so much that I disassembled it, measured and sketched up every part and made a CAD model, complete with detailed drawings. This first part is on the machining of the receiver, with much more to come. The entire build thread for the rifle can be found in the Gunsmithing section of metalworkingfun.com
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I thought I would do something a little different this time. I needed a custom set of scope rings for a rifle/scope combination and decided to make them myself. It was a fun and interesting project...
An explanation and demonstration of climb milling and conventional milling. Positive and negative points of each technique will be covered as well as examples of what can go wrong.
In this opening video I discuss future topics and also do a demonstration on how the metallurgical term red hardness relates to carbon and high speed steels.
This video covers machining operations on the mounting bracket, from stock selection to drilling and tapping the mounting holes to roughing out and finishing the cut-outs for clamping the mount in ...
In this final episode on the clamp knurling tool body, I demonstrate several methods of producing the counter-bored holes and show how to set up, drill and power tap the 5/16-18 threaded holes.
In this episode of the clamp knurling tool body, I demonstrate four methods of machining the outer contour, including the use of a sine bar. I also started recording separate audio tracks with this...
This video covers milling the slot to a width tolerance of +.003" - -.000" . I turned the DRO off for this lesson and showed how to do it using the dials (Yes they still work).