Thread: Making a Rolling block rifle on my lathe.

The first mill cut out .650" slot and I needed .735" per the plans, so after a reset up to get it lined up on centre I mounted a broken mill cutter with only one cutting flute. Set in the four jaw chuck I can offset it to fly cut out to the right size, just adjust the jaws a bit to set the cutter out a bit more till the slot is at the right size, stopped at .734" so I can give it a bit of a polish. Yes there is a bit of slop in the cross slide, so spring helps and small cuts, one off my coming up projects, a new nut, have some torbin bronze and ali bronze for it and as I need the cross slide to do this will have to do some careful measuring to thread the nut. May make it like a clasp nut so I can adjust it for wear.
, I didn't break it, bought a box of used one`s on TRD/me, some are good and very handy.