Tikka 55 tight arse buildup $325 plus scope

kickinback · Post by **kickinback** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 3:28 pm

Yes i am a machinist by trade and yes i do have my own lathe but the machinery in the pics arn't mine. All of the work in the pictures was carried out in X WSSM's workshop. The reason for this is he is the motorvator behind this project and he also has a top notch mill in there as well as the lathe plus all the steel supplies that were needed for the mandrel, recoil lug etc.(you will see this in pics to come). Will post more pics tonight and we will be firing it off the bench this weekend to see how things have hopefully improved.

Dr G · Post by **Dr G** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 3:48 pm

Blackpete wrote:Who said i won't Wooby , you can come over anytime and make some steel wool, bring the camera and we can take some pic's for th AV crew.

Pete.

Should make for another entertaining post.

here is a pic of me fitting my new barrel into the chuck

here is a pic of the hole in the wall made by the chuck key i forgot to remove

Sorry woob but with a forum name like yours.......
I just couldnt help my self

kickinback · Post by **kickinback** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 8:50 pm

After a fair bit of thought we deciced that the recoil lug tikka gave us could do with a bit of help. X WSSM (Stu) had a bit of bedding compound just laying around and we were definately going to bed the action so a new recoil lug was needed.

Once again Stu plunged into his large supply of steel and pulled out a piece of gauge plate which was cut to size on the cut off saw. Right about now we crunched the numbers and came up with the magic number of 5.00mm for the thikness of the recoil lug. If all went to plan this would give us a headspace of 0.001".

After looking at the lug already on the action it was decided that the new lug would be stepped and it would mate up with the existing one. The only problem was the existing one wasn't square to the action, so into the vice on the mill we go.

kickinback · Post by **kickinback** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 8:57 pm

It must have been while i was dreaming of 400 metre headshots that Stu knocked out the new recoil lug...........it just appeared, no pics of it in the making, just the finished product.

kickinback · Post by **kickinback** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 9:03 pm

Anyway into tha barrel vice we go, add a little loctite and an action wrench and it has all come together
.

kickinback · Post by **kickinback** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 9:06 pm

alpal · Post by **alpal** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 9:33 pm

Hey kickinback, what do you use in the barrel vice bush to stop the barrel from marring when you undo/tighten it?
Thanks in advance, Alpal

kickinback · Post by **kickinback** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 9:51 pm

Its an alumimium bush.

HAIR BEAR · Post by **HAIR BEAR** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 2:51 am

Very nice fella's ,
Mate i wold love a mill too

Mevo2230 · Post by **Mevo2230** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 3:09 pm

Thats some impressive work there!

Give me a control circuit to wire, or a fault to find or something and I will be sweet.... put me in front of a lathe and I am stumped.

Its been a long time since year 10 metal work....

I might have a play around with the lathe in the workshop at the plant if we ever get enough time to wire the thing up.

woob614271 · Post by **woob614271** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 4:53 pm

Lovely work, fellas, just lovely...

X WSSM · Post by **X WSSM** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 6:13 pm

woob614271 wrote:Lovely work, fellas, just lovely...

Thanks mate doing our best.

See if it all comes together on the weekend when we fire it

jt · Post by jt » Thu Nov 22, 2007 11:01 pm

Mate, if I had your skill and your tools and a bigger shed.......
I guess I can only dream and appreciate what others can do.
GOOD WORK

cheers jt.

tikka · Post by **tikka** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 7:50 am

Kickenback

Anyone who can make and build something like that has to be proud of their skills and work.

I love those sorts of articles mate, well done.

Cheers

Geoff

kickinback · Post by **kickinback** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 3:58 pm

Thanks to all for your comments. There is more to come

AusVarmint

Tikka 55 tight arse buildup $325 plus scope