rifle barrel boreing machine

[Luke]

good day to all,anybody know where i can get the spec on a old style boreing machine,thanks luke

[bob in the woods]

Steve Bookout  has an excellent video out [ see American Pioneer Press ]  which shows boring, reaming and rifling a barrel. There are separate videos for forging the barrel [ Jon Labauch ] and fitting a breach plug /draw filing the barrel [ Mike Miller]  Steve Bookout has a booklet for sale with all the information you need to build your own rifling/boring /reaming machine.   All worth the $ and then some.

[Ken G]

Visit Steve Bookout's site.  Lots of information to wet your whistle.  Order the DVDs and booklets if you want to give it a try.
Cheers,
Ken
http://toadhallrifleshop.com/

[James Wilson Everett]

Guys,

I know that this answer is not what Luke was looking for, but these are what American barrel boring machines looked like in the 19th c.  The horizontal one is similar to one that dates back to 1817.







All of these tools used the "boring nut" cutter that cut on the pull.  The vertical machines make the clearing of chips easier, the big balls on top were glass containers for cooling water that flowed down through the barrel bores.  The foot pedal disengaged the automatic feed mechanism for operator adjustment and barrel removal.  As the vertical tools were used the big glass balls would rise up several feet pulling the cutter through the rotating barrels, right the barrels rotate, not the cutters.

Jim