I guess I gotta finally say "something", been following Lees' thread and it was an "awesome" undertaking and GREAT job, and I hope that any and ALL of you realize just how complicated ,time consuming and COSTLY this sort of thing really is.....I THANK YOU Lee for putting it out for all of us to see and follow, ,,,,,,but it bothers me when some folks take it upon themselves to pass judgement ,pis & whine when they do not get what they want...it is hard enough to just do the work, time and ;lots of it is involved and then they want a blow by blow, measurement for measurement,hell I cannot type out and describe EXACTLY how I even polished the last cylinder we did!!!! it is ALL in the machinist manual, if you guys "think" you are a machinist then you should already have the manual, and be able to "do the math..." heck, I do MOST of MY stuff by eye, touch and feel!!!!!was shown how over the years and learned to do it myself........
do you know how many cylinders or barrels you have to "make, turn, clean up" just to pay for ANY of that equipment you see in Lees' pictures!!!!
WOW.....................
Again, great job Lee, I for one "thank you" immensely" for the entire thread, I worked in the shop, we did this sort of thing, and NO I am NOT a machinist,we had guys who did, and as you "see" in Lees' thread, his comments as to the "others" involved, the barrel supplier of the blank, Ron Mahovsky, good friend of mine and what he does through his shop for the finish, and the great job Cary and his grip making,all take a place in the entire project, and that adds to the "time",,, shipping, delivery, work to be done.......now you know "why" some of the 'big boys' get the money to do for the work that is done.................and NO I;m NOT going to get into the "why that caliber...??? ( we did it in a 256 Win.....) 8) AND in a D/A.... :roll:
Thank you Lee :wink: