I took an old mouser rifle apart and I was looking at the machining of the
receiver, it seems extremely complex. What intrigued me the most was the
caming surfaces of the receiver as well as the caming surface of the safety
lug raceway. How did they machine the caming surfaces on those old
receiver? Did they use a shaper which advanced the cutting tool in to the
receiver and rotate the receiver at the same time? Sounds like that method
would have the potential of snapping the cutter easily, unless the cut was
very shallow. BTW, how are the caming surfaces cut on more modern (i.e.
simpler) action like the M-700 Remington or a M-70 Winchester? If there
are any resources on the internet dealing with this topic I would like to
learn much more on how this is done. Thanks

WGB

I don't know the answer to your question. But I did read an old article
once on manufacturing the Model 1911 45 automatic. They used special
built tools to mill some features. Of the top of my head, I believe the
slide had 30 different machining operations. There was a special
machine that cut the locking notches.

Vince

Witek Busse wrote:
I took an old mouser rifle apart and I was looking at the machining of the
receiver, it seems extremely complex. What intrigued me the most was the
caming surfaces of the receiver as well as the caming surface of the safety
lug raceway. How did they machine the caming surfaces on those old
receiver? Did they use a shaper which advanced the cutting tool in to the
receiver and rotate the receiver at the same time? Sounds like that method
would have the potential of snapping the cutter easily, unless the cut was
very shallow. BTW, how are the caming surfaces cut on more modern (i.e.
simpler) action like the M-700 Remington or a M-70 Winchester? If there
are any resources on the internet dealing with this topic I would like to
learn much more on how this is done. Thanks

WGB

On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 13:26:08 -0600, "Witek Busse"
wbusse"at"filterlogix.com wrote:

How did they machine the caming surfaces on those old receiver?

They built a factory to make them - literally. For mass-production on
that scale, the machines would be specially designed to make each
particular machining operation, rather than being the sort of
general-purpose machines we're more used to hereabouts. Lots of these
specialised machines would be variations on shapers or broaching
machines.

This guy made a Mauser action from scratch:
http://forums.accuratereloading.com/...43/m/866108573



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This guy made a Mauser action from scratch:
http://forums.accuratereloading.com/...43/m/866108573



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