Thread: Hawkins plains rifle project

Hi, Guys, A bit more on how I cut the rifling in the barrel. The splash guard has two spaced bolts holding it on ,I clamped to upright steel brackets to them, then a long angle piece with clamps welded on to it,this was clamped to the upright brackets and it could move up or down. On top of the angle flat a length of bike chain was bolted on inline with the lathe bed way. The geared head is driven by the large bike sprocket that runs along the chain. The gearbox sits on a sliding assembly that runs up and done the tail stock bed way and it is cranked up and down by a loop of bike chain under the top slide, this is bolted to it. The rifling is only cut form the head stock to the tail stock end,e g left to right on the lathe. At the back end of my lathe head stock at small bit of thread is what I used to attached the barrel holder, this has four grub screws to chuck up the barrel true. Any way a look at the pics should show it all, cheers, Homebrew.357.