Maggie’s What's Your View II

The scary part is over... Got everything apart with no drama. Hardinge HLV spindle. Original issue was a chewed up belt. The belt was chewed up because the main motor pulley was broken, but with the pulleys loose, the spindle was still kinda "clicky" which is never a good sign, so I popped the spindle out and got to the bearings to find that it was just dried up grease causing the stick/click. So hopefully still a functioning lathe :D

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Finally found the time to re-zero one of my ARs that I just rebarreled.

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The red dot was way off, but surprisingly the laser was still dead on ‍🤷. I don’t remember dismounting the red dot or even changing the adjustment dials when I swapped out the 6.8 barrel for a 5.56, but I must have done so at some point.

We waited until the sun went down and fired up the Nogs, and the IR laser on my gun was dead on/right on top of the readjusted red dot at 100 yards. Only went out to 150 tonight because my knees were done, but my buddies were out at the 300 yard position showing off for half the night! LoL

And they were my ride home, so I was stuck…just got home 1/2 hour ago. Good times though.