Originally Posted by
deth502
i expect to pay nothing, other than perhaps the cost of some cutting oil.
i probably should have asked beforehand how in-depth you were looking to get. if you dont have a lathe, your options get limited quickly. im guilty of thinking that since you were doing things yourself that you had the equipment. thats not always the case. even with the machinery to do it, its still nice to get those ready to run barrels and just turn them in. profiling and threading a barrel in a home shop is no where near as quick/easy as in a factory custom tooled to do it, but its much more rewarding, imo ,when finished, and allows you options that you dont always have with off the shelf barrels.
afa paying someone else to do it, i have no idea what it would cost. typically, any kind of specialized labor will run $40-60 an hour, and for me to thread and chamber a barrel, its probably a little under an hour, adn profiling, depending on how much your taking off, can be anywhere from a 10 minute cleanup cut for a heavy bull barrel, to 2-3 hrs for a thin pencil profile from a large blank. im sure a professional might have larger equipment to do this faster than i can though.
either way, you will need a 308 finish reamer to set headspace once you screw it in.
where in pa are you?
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