I've finally after years taken the plunge and started on the Emp kit.
After taking a couple of builders courses and talking to a few tool vendors at Oshkosh I want to run by a potential shortcut on at least the Emp kit that was suggested to me to see what people think.
Instead of assembling everything with clecos, match drilling to final size, disassembling, deburring holes, reassembling what about simply reaming the holes to final size, deburring by running a scotchbrite over the holes (reamer is cleaner), and then assembling? Sure you have to ream twice the holes but it is much quicker than assembling twice.
I hear a lot about match drilling to ensure proper alignment of parts, but in my so far limited experience the parts are very accurate and this process seems to get the same result.
Any thoughts? Hopefully this isn't the primer wars part II This was suggested to me by someone with some experience, but want to see if there are negatives from others who have already been down this road.
Thanks.
After taking a couple of builders courses and talking to a few tool vendors at Oshkosh I want to run by a potential shortcut on at least the Emp kit that was suggested to me to see what people think.
Instead of assembling everything with clecos, match drilling to final size, disassembling, deburring holes, reassembling what about simply reaming the holes to final size, deburring by running a scotchbrite over the holes (reamer is cleaner), and then assembling? Sure you have to ream twice the holes but it is much quicker than assembling twice.
I hear a lot about match drilling to ensure proper alignment of parts, but in my so far limited experience the parts are very accurate and this process seems to get the same result.
Any thoughts? Hopefully this isn't the primer wars part II This was suggested to me by someone with some experience, but want to see if there are negatives from others who have already been down this road.
Thanks.