DIY Barrel Rifling Tool 2.0
by
Nicholas C
Published: June 23rd, 2016
Last August I posted an article about Clinton Westwood’s DIY barrel rifling tool. Well he has updated it and motorized it. He used an old bicycle for parts and re-purposed it to drive the rifling tool. It acts as a differential. One side has the barrel twist rate while the other has the screw drive driven by the power drill.
Clinton is building a .380 semi auto pistol.
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I truly enjoy this kind of work.
That's pretty slick. I always wanted to buy a rifling button from ebay and try building a button rifling machine but I might build one like this instead. Seems like you could slot the cutter head and thread the tip for a spreader screw to make it like an inside collet and use that to adjust the depth of cut instead of paper shims.