Thread: Making a Sharps Barrel in my lathe.

Hi Guys, Back from a few days up north at Kerikeri, saw a weather window so loaded up my small caravan with eggs, bacon, sausages, onions and when I got to the camp site, there`s a home kill butcher across the road, best aged sirloin steaks I`v come across. Great stuff, one needs a break to get healthy , well it was a bit of a walk to the butchers and had to have a few beers when I got back, .
So have just finished cutting the radis at the top of the Sharps receiver after clamping it to my angle bracket on the cross slide and slowly fly cutting out at the top, one more bit done. Homebrew.357.
, Cutting out the radis . , Bit more done.

Originally Posted by homebrew.357

Hi, As you can see I have threaded the barrel end ready to fit in the receiver and as I said it will not fit on my face plate, but with right low down cunning, it did!," there`s ways and means". So with the angle plate bolted to the f/plate, and the rec/block clamped to that , it took all day to git it running true to side, face, and hole. Now I can cut the thread and test the barrel for fit, I think and if not will just have to remove the tailstock. Will take it real slow, Cheers, Homebrew.357.
Attachment 37119, boring bar to finish size. Attachment 37120, It takes low cunning and a lot of junk.Attachment 37121, And some nuts and bolts.

Brilliant HB, "more than one way to skin a cat" springs to mind

@homebrew -mate with your talents you could machine yourself a new hipjoint after the sharps is finished.imagine rollin up to the surgeon with it -'righto doc -ive milled it when can ya fit the bloody thing"-jeez man the six milliondollar man would be green with envy!

Hi Kotuku, When I went in to have my first hip joint removed, I said "What do you do with the old one " , yer, I`v got it in my draw , thinking how can I use it in the Sharps build. Make a great knob for my Hawken ram rod . Anyway, I`m drilling a hole in a steel shaft at the moment, blank barrel for a customer's muzzle loader, my fame is getting out there. , Cheers, Homebrew.357.

you are on it my man -imagine what you could do with a politicians ballsack!

Originally Posted by kotuku

you are on it my man -imagine what you could do with a politicians ballsack!

Bugger all, cause theyd be to small on most of them, apart from helens.....

I don`t think it goes for our Auckland stallion, hear he has spent $20.000 of tax payers money on a new bedroom in his council offices, he would be wise to keep away from our cannon shoots, the boys are always looking out for large balls to shoot. Homebrew.357.

Originally Posted by homebrew.357

I don`t think it goes for our Auckland stallion, hear he has spent $20.000 of tax payers money on a new bedroom in his council offices, he would be wise to keep away from our cannon shoots, the boys are always looking out for large balls to shoot. Homebrew.357.

judgin by the way things are goin -youd put him down the barrelballs&all wouldnt you .
when thats done hang about cause weve got him with mammaries here in shakeytown who could happily follow him from my POV!face like a narwhals minge!
ya could at a pinch use her acolytes as assorted pullthroughs!

Hi Kotuku, Bet there are a few narwhals faces in the windy city, those mainland boys just upped there kilts and got stuck in and I bet they put those beer handles to good use. . Now the front of the receiver is milled in a bit on both sides, so clamped onto my angle bracket to get the job done with milling cutter in four jaw chuck. The mill has rounded edges , so no sharp corners that can cause stress cracks, it`s getting there, Homebrew.357.
, Clamped on to mill the first side. , The other side. , You can never have enough clamps. , Milled both sides, job done.

mate,youre a bloody gem ,ya bloods worth bottlin!

Hi Kotuku, No I`m doing it the other way around, what I`v bottled is going into my blood. Now have also ground a radis on the front of the receiver and milled out a large flat on the left side to bring it to the right size as the block is a bit larger than required, did this with a t/c fly cutter off centre so all was cut out in one go. Homebrew.357.
pic 166, Radis on face. pic`s 167, 168, milling out large flat. pic 170, job done.
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Hi, The receiver is a bit over weight with a goodly lot that has to come off, so sent it to boot camp for a work out to lose a bit, but they grabbed me as well so I had a good work out as well. Good to have there`s fitness classes in winter, gives me something to do. Homebrew.357.
, top view. , Slimed down. , Cutting out some of the flab. , A lean mean machine.

And to those who think I have a electric band saw, , NO I don`t, I just put a hack saw blade into my bush camping saw and I`m the champion arm wrestler in the retired men's club. . Homebrew.357., ,

That's keen!

The under lever fits in a slot under the receiver , so set up and with a off centred mill and cut out to full depth. At the top of this slot a tee cut is milled for the lever spring , I made up a cutter from an old milling bit and used the fore jaw chuck to adjust the in feed. Also drilled the hole for the lever pin. With a bit of cleaning up and fine sanding will see if the breech block and under lever fit and work ok. ,Homebrew.357., Milling lever slot. , Bit more to go. , Tee slot for spring at top.