Originally Posted by Clarkm
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This is a Win 94 barrel new old stock from Numrich [$15 + $5 shipping], screwed into a Mosin Nagant. The flat spots make it a nut.

.807" 20 TPI barrel adapts to .975" 16 TPI receiver and clocks the sight dovetail and headspaces without a reamer.

That was the first time, and maybe only time, I cut female threads on the lathe. But it was not the first time I did two equations and two unknowns [to get the clocking AND the headspace at the same time].


Now that's ingenuity and entirely elegant.