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General Category => Welcome Center => Topic started by: opsoff1 on Sep 27, 2024, 08:22 AM
Just joined - glad to be part of the community. Invited by Piggiron.
Home shop/part time / side business. Been running a home shop now for 40+ yrs. I do primarily precision LR rifle competition stuff.
Work for the DOD up in MA.
Welcome!
Welcome aboard!
Welcome aboard, Scott. I was just reviewing your Clausing 8520 questions. I need to look through them once more and formulate my responses IF I can come up with any that are worthy of mention.
Welcome to the site. We ( the wife and I) just left Mass. last week. We headed for the Southwest,New Mexico right now. I don't have any computer setup yet so I cannot get to those files. But I think Terry and a few others here have the same info as I would have any way. Hope you enjoy your time here and maybe share a project when you can. :smiley_takepicture:
I appreciate the welcomes.
Looking forward to posting my Clausing 8525 project. It originally started as just a partial top end rebuild when I installed a 5" riser. It transformed - not by design to a complete 100% rebuild when the machine toppled over when it was being moved...ugh. There was some damage - but all of it was easily (sort of) repaired LOL
It actually was a blessing in disguise as it ran pretty quiet before, but I did see a bit of runout on the spindle. (.001-ish). I replaced every bearing in the entire machine and the lower spindle bearings were...ugly.
I'll post various pics/stages - it should be pristine when done (very close).
Glad to be here.
Scott