Man cave pictures

[Rifle 57]

Well I stood in front of the lathe today and did two barrel jobs that I had to get done today so that I would be ready to go to work tomarrow morning. Man my back is killing me after 10 hrs non stop machining .I thought some of you might like to see a few photo's of my little man cave shop.These four machines are in a 10' x 24' shop and no room left for anymore.

[olyinaz]

Nice!

[Rifle 57]

I also have a surface grinder - nice Trinco bead blast cabinet- heavy duty Powermatic drill press and alot of tooling for all of the machines. I will have to take some more pictures sometime.

[rjohns94]

Very nice.

[Griff]

Ok, I can see that the four machines are different... but don't the 1st three just take not round things and make them round? Why 3?

From,
notamachinist

[Borregos]

I like

[3leggedturtle]

Does the young'un have any desires to learn your skills? Need some details on the FB he is so proudly holding.

[Blaine]

I'm always in awe of those that can fabricate, and replicate things....

[Sixgun]

Nice High Wall with the #3 barrel the youngster is holding. Oh!, Nice machines. I always did want to learn how to run a lathe the professional way. I can but only little jobs that an eight grader can do.----------6

[Rifle 57]

Ok, I can see that the four machines are different... but don't the 1st three just take not round things and make them round? Why 3?

From,
notamachinist

Well Griff it is nice to have more than one lathe, because sometimes you might have something set up in one lathe that is not finished being machined yet and then all at once you get something else that you need to machine so you save a lot of time on set up and sometimes the set up take's longer than the actual machine time. The first lathe is the lathe that I use only for rebarrel job's. The second little white MSC lathe is handy for small job's like muzzle brake and suppressers job's for threading the end of the barrel, it has a short spindle width so I can leave the action on the barrel,save's time. And the third blue lathe is used for action truing and other jobs. I like big heavy lathes they just work alot better than little hobby lathes.Hope this answer's your questions.
Loren
Also that is my youngest of 8 grandson's , and his name is Hunter Ray . He loves gun's,shooting,fishing,machines and working with any kind of tool's. The rifle he is holding is a Uberti 45 colt high wall and he loves it.

[AJMD429]

The second little white MSC lathe is handy for small job's like muzzle brake and suppressers job's for threading the end of the barrel, it has a short spindle width so I can leave the action on the barrel,save's time.

How does that work...? Every time I've wanted to thread another one of my firearms for one of my suppressors, I get told either I must remove the barrel, or the one doing the threading will have to, and it of course costs a bunch extra. If it needs done, fine, and I'll gladly pay for it if I want the threading badly enough, but if there is a way to do it without removing from the action, why don't more 'smiths do it...???

[Nate Kiowa Jones]

The second little white MSC lathe is handy for small job's like muzzle brake and suppressers job's for threading the end of the barrel, it has a short spindle width so I can leave the action on the barrel,save's time.

How does that work...? Every time I've wanted to thread another one of my firearms for one of my suppressors, I get told either I must remove the barrel, or the one doing the threading will have to, and it of course costs a bunch extra. If it needs done, fine, and I'll gladly pay for it if I want the threading badly enough, but if there is a way to do it without removing from the action, why don't more 'smiths do it...???

What he means when he says "short spindle width" is this. the spindle is the shaft that the chuck is attached to. They are bored through so you can load a piece of stock or barrel through the spindle from the left end of the lathe. So if the spindle width is short enough and the spindle bore dia. is large enough you can insert the barreled action in far enough to chuck it up and thread the muzzle without removing the barrel from the action.

[Chuck 100 yd]

Nice set up.

[Rifle 57]

The second little white MSC lathe is handy for small job's like muzzle brake and suppressers job's for threading the end of the barrel, it has a short spindle width so I can leave the action on the barrel,save's time.

How does that work...? Every time I've wanted to thread another one of my firearms for one of my suppressors, I get told either I must remove the barrel, or the one doing the threading will have to, and it of course costs a bunch extra. If it needs done, fine, and I'll gladly pay for it if I want the threading badly enough, but if there is a way to do it without removing from the action, why don't more 'smiths do it...???

What he means when he says "short spindle width" is this. the spindle is the shaft that the chuck is attached to. They are bored through so you can load a piece of stock or barrel through the spindle from the left end of the lathe. So if the spindle width is short enough and the spindle bore dia. is large enough you can insert the barreled action in far enough to chuck it up and thread the muzzle without removing the barrel from the action.

Yes Steve is 100% correct,I should have explained it a little better.Thanks Steve!! But it also depend's on how long the barrel is for my little lathe, I need at least 23 inches on bolt action rifles and on AR 10 AND 15 it does not matter because the barrel has to be removed most of the time because of the gas block and most barrels on them are not long enough any way.