Gunsmith That Can Cut Metric Threads and do a VZ Barrel Chop

[RobertMcC]

Anyone knows a smith who can do Metric AK 47 Muzzle Thread and work on a VZ58 Barrel chop?

 

[RePete]

Check with Jeff at Valley Gunsmithing.

 

[billybob]

delete

 

[(Ronin)]

You pay for the die,i'll do it

 

[Slavex]

die? I would hope that a smith would use a lathe and a cutter, not a die, to thread a barrel.

 

[iconfig]

In to slavex's response i would also hope a smith would be using a lathe and carbide threading tool.

to be honest im not too sure how you would dial in the bore so that you wouldnt have any runout when threading it with a die with out using a lathe and if its in the lathe already why not use a threading tool

 

[PEI ROB]

He means cut most of the threads on the lathe then use the die adjusted to class 3 threads to finish. I finish with the lathe along with many others, you need to be fussy finishing with the lathe.

 

[RePete]

You pay for the die,i'll do it

Anyone worth his/her salts would use a lathe and cutter.

 

[dinsdale]

To be fair , he's saying he'd do it for free.(cost of die)
He reworked a few of us Nutters barrels last year for free too.

Ronin did a nice job on Meaghan's .22 and redid Threemorewishes 10/22
http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php?t=192548

 

[(Ronin)]

Anyone worth his/her salts would use a lathe and cutter.

I finish the threads last thou or so with a die,so it's the exact size dead on and clean.
Not cut the whole damn thing with it...come on

 

[RobertMcC]

Problem I see, Its a Pressed and Pinned on barrel so unless he knows how to remove it or make a mandolin really only way of doing it.

Plus not being a registered gunsmith It be harder to get a ATT, I would have to transfer over the gun in his name and then vice versa.

 

[(Ronin)]

You'd have to get the barrel out.
I wouldn't want to risk putting a scratch on your rifle or having trouble getting the barrel out or back in anyways.

The chop and thread i'll do,but that's as far as i'd be comfortable going

 

[RobertMcC]

You'd have to get the barrel out.
I wouldn't want to risk putting a scratch on your rifle or having trouble getting the barrel out or back in anyways.

The chop and thread i'll do,but that's as far as i'd be comfortable going

Then I'm sorry. Looking for a smith that actually did this before.

 

[RePete]

I finish the threads last thou or so with a die,so it's the exact size dead on and clean.
Not cut the whole damn thing with it...come on

Where in your previous posts do you say this?

You don't! So what are people to think? We're NOT mind readers.

 

[(Ronin)]

Well my mistake then..

 

[monkeycanada]

Take it to a good gunsmith like Barry at " Bits of Pieces," as the pin and barrel can be very hard to remove without a jig and press. Barries web site: http://www.bitsofpieces.com/

 

[RobertMcC]

I emailed Bits And Pieces nothing yet.

 

[RobertMcC]

Yeah thats what I heard alot of places do, I just cannot find a place that does metric threads.

 

[PEI ROB]

Curse those stubborn old timers that don't like metric