Barrel vise/action wrench

We are thinking along similar lines. I had thought about pins. In thinking through the milling operation I can't see it being made in 1 pass, and the big problem with the t-slot slide is once you have your workpiece shimmed, trimmed, and ready to go, moving it to make another pass in the Z direction is that much harder to keep aligned.

Then again, I am the rookie here, I was operating under the impression that locating the recoil lug was a relatively high precision operation. Is that not correct?
 
Read the text attachment I posted. Rod's slot is wider than the recoil lug and there is a set screw on each side to keep the recoil lug held in place. You can see one of the set screws in the picture that I posed of his action wrench. There is another set screw on the other side.
 
Well, it worked. I 'missed' the action bolt hole and ended up cutting a groove. That alone tells me if I had to do it again I would use at least 1.5" thick stock. After the picture was taken I went back and used my milling attachment for my lathe to cut a shallow notch for the lug. It helped a lot with reassembly.
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This is an action wrench that my dad made for a Mauser action...

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This was made before he owned his mill. He did all the work with a drill press, bandsaw, and hand file. It has been used successfully to rebarrel 2 rifles so far.

-Bear
 
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