presto_z 125 Posted January 14, 2013 Report Share Posted January 14, 2013 I recently moved (Jan 1) and in the process misplaced some of my tooling.. More specifically my Thread Alignment tool for 14x1 LH. There is no worse feeling than knowing you have something, but having no idea where its at.. So after an hour of searching i decided Id make my own Unfortunatly i didnt take pictures along the way, but Ill try to describe in detail exactly what i did. First off here is the finished product I knew the hardest thing to make woud be the actual threads on the T.A.T. since i didnt have a lathe, or the more obvious a T.A.T In the process of searching for my tooling i ran across some old Romanian Front Sights with short sections of barrels that were threaded The next thing to do was press out the FS pins and then press it off of the demilled barrel. After that I chopped off the threaded section with a Cut Off wheel I then found an old stripped out chuck key froma drill press I no longer own. http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t4/presto_z/20130113_132908.jpg It was fairly close to the inside diameter of a 7.62, so turning it down was a pretty fast process. http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t4/presto_z/20130113_133325.jpg I ended up chucking one end of the cut off chuck key into a drill and used some Aluminum oxide sandpaper to turn it down to the desired diameter http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t4/presto_z/20130113_134714.jpg I left one end slightly larger so i could press fit it into the short section of threaded barrel. I dont have an exact measurement on that since i did it on the fly and didnt take pictures until the project was complete. I made it where the crowned side of the demilled barrel would touch the crowned side of the unthreaded barrel. All in all i spent an hour or so making this.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
misterT 174 Posted January 16, 2013 Report Share Posted January 16, 2013 So Is the idea to thread the die over your threaded tool to start it straight on the barrell? Looks like it should work good, I would suggest running the die over it several times and thread your tool slightly undersize. This way when you go to use it to align the die to a barrell it will not tend to turn with the die so much. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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