Todays Project - What did you do today?

[TomG]

(11-24-2014, 10:13 PM)PixMan Wrote: David,

Would it be willing to post the drawing of the long thin sight leaf in your thread in Gunsmithing section? I'd like to get input from experienced guys like Tom, Arvid and others who may have faced a similar challenge. It's not the long thin part of it which I find myself scratching my head about, rather the junction of the Ø 0.310 round with the 1/4-40 thread where it meets the 0.150" wide blade.

I have several ideas but would like others to see it so we can bounce some ideas around the collective here.

There is no easy way to do it Ken.when I made mine, I drilled and reamed the small internal radii adjacent to the leaf, used a corner rounding end mill for as much of the rest as possible and finished up with a hand ground form tool in a fly cutter. I wanted it all steel so I could case harden it when it's finished.

Tom