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Bending A Gun Barrel
dav1965
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When someone says to bend the barrel what do they mean and how do you do it.
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Barrel bending USUALLY applies to shotgun barrels. I did see one article bending a revolver barrel to shoot to point-of-aim.
There are several methodologies for barrels bending depending on whether it's intentional or not.
Shotgun Barrel bending fixture:
Barrel Straightening
German barrel making factory straightening stations
First World War / WWI, 1914 - 1918, Germany, arms industry
This was a war production plant where hundreds of arms had to be built per day. Those charts are rifle barrels. The knotted rope was the 'assist' to turning the arbor wheel.
Douglas Barrels was once famous for stating that they hand straightened every barrel before it left the factory. As barrel making technology has advanced, the geometry of the drills, reamers and cutters or buttons has improved tremendously. The holes in the barrels are straighter and the implementations of stress relieving curtails most of the distortion once seen in barrels.
Best.
fiber bundels at each station, the strange aprons and chart shuttlel,
are those barrels or some sort,of tubes