02-10-2016, 01:00 AM
Matt @ LSI Wrote:the whole metric threading this is a big mystery to me. its a metric thread....its still the same process, just different thread pitch. how a gunsmith would scoff at re barreling one is beyond me. over the years, we have heard manyh of the same remarks to having a Howa blue printed, Howa quality is a big step above the rest.
I think that the biggest issue is a vast majority of gunsmiths have equipment manufactured before metric threading was common, and so it's a pain to switch their machines over. Newer machines, it's not such an issue. One told me that it's a metric thread, but that the actual angle of the threading was such that he couldn't even make his machine do it. I'm not a machinist, so I'm not sure I completely understood what he was getting at, but it wasn't just the thread density per cm, but the actual angle that the thread presented at.
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