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What is your machine? What speed were you chambering originally? Did you pre drill and bore the chamber before entering the reamer or did you raw dog it with a reamer all the way?
The machine that originally chambered this barrel a a jet 1336PBD. Late 80's Taiwanese bench top machine. Fairly heavy for what it was. It built a lot of good rifles before I got it.

I sold that machine to buy my current lathe. This one is a profit master. Made in Brazil. 14x60. Knew the previous owner. It built three of my own rifles before I owned it. This it the first chambering job I've done on it. I did make a short dry run on an old barrel stub before I went ahead with this one.

Originally I chambered the barrel at 60 rpm. The slowest the jet would go. This time I touched up the chamber at 63 rpm. 2nd gear. 1st gear on this one is 40. The next option would be 100. Or faster if you prefer.

I did not pre drill and bore the chamber. There seems to be varying opinions on this. Some do, some don't. Out of the three people I know personally, or knew, that do this kind of work, none of them pre bored, and only one had an issue one time that I know of. I go slow and take it easy. About .025-.030 per cut. It's time consuming, but many do it this way and it seems to work. One of these days I'll build a pressure flush system. This lathe has a built in pump but it's not working currently. I need to dig in to that.

I'm fairly certain what got me the first time around was my reamer holding setup. I built a rigid holder out of a mt2 tailstock blank and I don't believe the little jet was up to the task. This time I used a bald eagle floating holder.

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So.......

The answer is not in kinetic actions, but in power of the purse…

Long before shots were fired in 1775, colonists put the squeeze on British merchant traffic. In the 1930’s, Ghandi had hundreds of millions of Indians stop buying British products.

The government is dependent on cash and the POS politicians that are “bought” are being paid with your money…. By way of China and other places. The media is brainwashing you with your money… in cable and satellite fees so you have 500 channels of garbage.

Cut off the funding and you weaken the snake to the point of collapse.

Number one thing Americans can do is to stop buying from China. Next thing would be to buy things in on secondary market only. Barter. Do without. Use tools to fix things instead. Of buying new.


Stop spending on things you don’t need… with companies and countries dedicated to taking away your freedom and destroying American exceptionalism. That will drive complete collapse and reset without firing a shot.

Of course, it will also require austerity… not going to Disney by plane. Driving an older car with no heated seats. Not having the latest phone or flat screen. Not eating out. Shopping local or doing without.

And who is going to do that?

It’s going to take an invasion, a terrorist or military attack that makes 911 or pearl harbor look tame or, more likely, a natural disaster or earth-altering proportions to cause any reset. That would come out of the ashes. And be crafted by the strongest survivors of a Darwinian selection.

We have been in a 500 year Goldilocks zone of history and geology. Yes, including some world wars.

It won’t last and no one sane will let that AppleCart get turned over.

Now as for the blue-haired Tesla-burning insane? Well, they might do that. Because they believe that out of the ashes will rise their socialist utopia.

My bet is more like mad max, less like all flowers and unicorns and burning man shit.

Meh… whatever. Just remember that it is better to be a warrior in a garden than it is to be a Gardner in a war.

Sirhr