24ga reamer

mrclean89 said:
Oh cool, I have a buddy here on the island that does some really nice work to cars and bikes. Mostly all muscle and harley types though.
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yeah well I figure that imports from the 80's are cheap and in return would make the end product affordable thus selling more im not a fan of screwing with old cars(even the fox body mustangs and such) getting too rare if I find some already screwed with then I will change them up and perfect them with old school flare. what I really hate is the ridiculously chopped rat rods people are now making out of restorable cars
 
antiqueguy said:
custom fab mostly turning run of the mil import bikes into one off bobbers/brats
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Really? That smells of a total failure in the making.

If you cannot afford to buy a chamber reamer, and are not able to round up enough data to actually have a reamer Co. make you one, I figure the likelihood of setting up anything resembling a fab shop to customize any form of motor vehicle is so close to zero that it might as well not exist.

Didn't you start trying to flog your "services" building custom flintlocks a while back?

Funny! In a sad sort of delusional way.

Cheers
Trev
 
trevj said:
Really? That smells of a total failure in the making.

If you cannot afford to buy a chamber reamer, and are not able to round up enough data to actually have a reamer Co. make you one, I figure the likelihood of setting up anything resembling a fab shop to customize any form of motor vehicle is so close to zero that it might as well not exist.

Didn't you start trying to flog your "services" building custom flintlocks a while back?

Funny! In a sad sort of delusional way.

Cheers
Trev
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considering I've had a wrench in my hand since I was knee high to a grass hopper and have helped build cars that are in the 8 seconds range in the 1/4 mile I got fab work down. this type of work involves no drawings you think about what you want it to look like and you build it that's what the chopper/hot rod mind set is all about
 
antiqueguy said:
considering I've had a wrench in my hand since I was knee high to a grass hopper and have helped build cars that are in the 8 seconds range in the 1/4 mile I got fab work down. this type of work involves no drawings you think about what you want it to look like and you build it that's what the chopper/hot rod mind set is all about
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High speed mouth.

My money is still on DTF.

Cheers
Trev
 
mooncoon said:
That sort of begs the question "how tall are you now? " :>)

cheers mooncoon
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lol im 20 now been helping with minor things since about the age of 4 and by the age of 8 I was doing major things like paint/body and mechanical most of that on cars that drive 1/4 mile at a time and mostly fox body mustangs
 
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antiqueguy said:
lol im 20 now been helping with minor things since about the age of 4 and by the age of 8 I was doing major things like paint/body and maniacal most of that on cars that drive 1/4 mile at a time and mostly fox body mustangs
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What's "maniacal"? Look it up. I know what it means. As used, it makes no sense whatsoever.

And you didn't answer the question.

If you want to convince us that you can do it, then do it and show us. Been talk and excuses, so far.

Cheers
Trev
 
trevj said:
What's "maniacal"? Look it up. I know what it means. As used, it makes no sense whatsoever.

And you didn't answer the question.

If you want to convince us that you can do it, then do it and show us. Been talk and excuses, so far.

Cheers
Trev
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i don't need money for my business i got everything i need. i do need money for this project and that's slim because i can no longer make money doing what i was and like i said no body will make a reamer i don't have chamber drawings for a 2" 24ga because they don't exist
 
Take a shell. Measure it. Add a couple of thousandths to the diameters. Allow for a forcing cone, and a pilot to fit the bore. Bingo, there are the dimensions. It ain't rocket science.

And how about photos of your vehicles?
 
antiqueguy said:
i don't need money for my business i got everything i need. i do need money for this project and that's slim because i can no longer make money doing what i was and like i said no body will make a reamer i don't have chamber drawings for a 2" 24ga because they don't exist
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Lame excuses again.

Draw a picture, put dimensions desired, on it, send to reamer Co. Dead simple.

Too complicated for ya? Seems.

You started a project you couldn't afford in the first place, which, by rights, amounts to pop bottle money in the grand scheme of things.

DTF. Destined To Fail. But I am certain that it will have been someone else's fault, not your own, when it does. At least the way you tell it, it will be.

Cheers
Trev
 
tiriaq said:
Take a shell. Measure it. Add a couple of thousandths to the diameters. Allow for a forcing cone, and a pilot to fit the bore. Bingo, there are the dimensions. It ain't rocket science.

And how about photos of your vehicles?
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yeah well I still need to draw it out and I can't draw a straight line with a ruler anymore and I don't have any pics of anything I done in the past we really did not do that sort of thing nothing too special anyway just some hot rod flames and the normal 351 Windsor swap for fox body. I've not done too much in recent years(gun addiction got in the way) getting back into the swing of things
 
antiqueguy said:
yeah well I still need to draw it out and I can't draw a straight line with a ruler anymore and I don't have any pics of anything I done in the past we really did not do that sort of thing nothing too special anyway just some hot rod flames and the normal 351 Windsor swap for fox body. I've not done too much in recent years(gun addiction got in the way) getting back into the swing of things
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Ahhh...So it's excuses again!

Cheers
Trev
 
You don't even need a ruler. Draw it out freehand on a salvaged paper sack, and put accurate measurements on the drawing.
Got a Canadian Tire digital caliper?
 
tiriaq said:
You don't even need a ruler. Draw it out freehand on a salvaged paper sack, and put accurate measurements on the drawing.
Got a Canadian Tire digital caliper?
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no the kept breaking I learned by a crappy tool 5 times or buy a good tool once but yeah i'll have to dig through the reloading stash and see if I have any unloaded/unformed 24ga if not i'll order some till then this is on the back burner
 
Well, if you gave up on your CT calipers, dig out your Mitutoyo and have at it.
Tell you what - I'll measure an unfired 24ga brass shell and post the measurements.
Maybe I'll measure it three ways - once with an el cheapo, once with my Mitutoyo, and once with a proper micrometer. Bet if there is a difference, it wouldn't be enough to make the slightest difference in a shotgun chamber. You are using 4130 seamless tubing for the barrel? That will affect the pilot diameter.
 
tiriaq said:
Well, if you gave up on your CT calipers, dig out your Mitutoyo and have at it.
Tell you what - I'll measure an unfired 24ga brass shell and post the measurements.
Maybe I'll measure it three ways - once with an el cheapo, once with my Mitutoyo, and once with a proper micrometer. Bet if there is a difference, it wouldn't be enough to make the slightest difference in a shotgun chamber. You are using 4130 seamless tubing for the barrel? That will affect the pilot diameter.
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nope im going to use a track of the wolf barrel that was the plan all along the tubing would have been a extension into the lee enfield barrel threads but i'll most likely send the barrel and action to someone with a lathe to thread it or if I still can't get someone to make a chamber reamer Ellwood Epps should be able to do the job
 
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