:banghead:, I have picked up a few of the Parker Hale large ring Mauser clone castings to build rifles from and I started on the first one today, after a short time on the mill and a little more time filing I got a 98 bolt to fit perfectly so I next went to cleaning up the front of the receiver and to think about threading except there's a problem ....all the mandrels that are available or that you would normally make to hold a receiver in the lathe use the threads to hold the receiver onto the mandrel this receiver is not yet threaded so ...
does anyone have an idea on how to chuck the receiver up in a lathe ? I have 3,4,and 6 jaw chucks , bare face plates if that would yield an answer and I could make any kind of mandrel , I tried one already but it didn't hold it central enough . the shape is too irregular to simply chuck up even in the 4 jaw .
The only other thought is to do everything vertically in the mill but that seems like a disaster waiting to happen , I did the bolt lug faces that way but boring the thread true to the bore is probably not going to work on my setup .
Any advice or tips would be appreciated , thanks
does anyone have an idea on how to chuck the receiver up in a lathe ? I have 3,4,and 6 jaw chucks , bare face plates if that would yield an answer and I could make any kind of mandrel , I tried one already but it didn't hold it central enough . the shape is too irregular to simply chuck up even in the 4 jaw .
The only other thought is to do everything vertically in the mill but that seems like a disaster waiting to happen , I did the bolt lug faces that way but boring the thread true to the bore is probably not going to work on my setup .
Any advice or tips would be appreciated , thanks