Turning & Threading chopped mosin - SE PA

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Anyone know of a smith that can thread a 16.5" barreled mosin for 5/8-24? I have spoken to and dealt with several in the SE PA but no one has the proper fixturing to do this. Thanks

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Have you tried Donely's in Quakertown?
Turning and threading a barrel should be some pretty standard smith work.

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I haven't tried them, will call... the issue is that the barrel is too short now to fixture through the lathe tooling, the barrel end OD needs to be turned-down on a lathe to get the 5/8-24 thread on there, it needs to be done a lathe to ensure concentricity to the barrel/ muzzle ID. Most smiths have larger lathes and a 16.5" is too short to fixture in there and turn it down, so I think I need someone with a specialty or smaller lathe body.

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I found a clamp on that works great.