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I've built quite a few rifles off of Vanguard actions. I have never found one yet with the lugs not bearing evenly. Are you checking it with the trigger in place? If you are then only the lower lug touches when cocked. Most 2 lug actions are like this. Unnecessarily cutting on an action...
When I get to pick the barrel for a custom build I always specify Bartlein 5R barrels. I will only use 4 or 6 groove if that's all that is available. 3 groove and someone else is doing it. I won't touch one.
I do it to align my chamber with the throat and 2" farther into the bore. This is the only place I use to align the whole chamber end including the tennon threads. I don't want my reamer following the curve in the first couple inches of the bore that will become my chamber. I do the same...
I wouldn't accept that job for one second. I have replaced barrels that were on .002" over my reamer size at a cost of near $500 and ate the labor due to a hiccup in my reamer holder no questions asked. As a shop this is why you can't ever let something like this out the door. It will end up as...
A Weatherby Accumark barrel is a Weatherby #3. It's .705" at the muzzle. The "G" diameter should be .900". The shank is 1.250" Benchmark #5 is closest. A Krieger #5 is closer.
A lot of the .750" diameter brakes only come with 1/2-28 and we put those on 30 cal weekly. 7mm no sweat. The .506 for a shoulder is the biggest concern here. The tapered end of that brake will be pretty sharp meaning it won't stand much torque tightening it up. A dab of Blue will hold it...
Kiwi neutral. Lately I have been using paraffin bar wax too. Been using that for table saw for 40 years. Nothing sticks to the saw table so thought , why not. Rub it on and polish it off. This is working well too.
I would still coat it afterward but it certainly shouldn't chip near the machined edges. I sometimes engrave the barrel markings after coating and never an issue with the finish chipping there either.
Not FFP but I have had the 8-32x56LRMOA for a couple years on my 338 Lapua. I did have the top turret freewheel on me once and nearly ended a hunt. I since tightened it up tight as I dare and it hasn't come loose since. The clicks don't give me the billet machined feel at all but they work...
Are you talking about a quill feed? I don't see any power feed or control levers for the quill. Are they on the right side? I also don't see any x,y or z power feed motors on it. I have used my quill auto feed exactly zero times. It looks to be fully manual.
You are right Jon, my apologies. I just went back to the thread I was thinking about and reread it. It was indeed someone else's setup. Not yours. 8/29 "Chatter on barrel threads" You just shared it. Again, until now I thought it was someone else's barrel you were fixing in that picture...