Who can mill my '98 Custom Dye Stainless into Cocker Threads?

[JEDI]

I have a 14" DYE stainless for a Tippmann 98 Custom. I've heard being that there's so much metal on a '98 Custom barrel, theres room for milling. I'd like to mill it to cocker threads, and I dont care if it shortens the barrel.

[xen_100]

thats like a $70 barrel. by the time you ship it($10), pay to have it milled and shipped back.($60 an hour + $10 shipping) you could have just bought a cocker threaded barrel.

[JEDI]

Actually, I have two of them, that I bought about 1 year between, and I payed $90 for them. Paintball gear has them as $109 on sale for $80. I wouldn't buy another stainless barrel. I figured The one I have is getting no use. If I buy a new barrel instead, I'll still have a stainless barrel not getting used. Besides, I wasnt asking for an opinion.

Again, is this possable, and does any one do it?

[Wc Keep]

i dont know if its possible and i know you didnt ask for opinions but did you ever think about a barrel adapter?

[JEDI]

Yeah, I used to have a few, and they all break. But thank you for the suggestion. Maybe its just not possible

[FalconGuy016]

sell the useless one and put it towards a new one if it isnt econimical to thread it

[EsPo]

www.hogansalleypaintball.com has milling for 45 an hour i think.

[xen_100]

I beleive white wolf does it. email him and ask

http://www.whitewolfairsmithing.com/

[Kevmaster]

https://www.docsmachine.com

https://www.palmer-pursuit.com

https://www.gddcustoms.com

https://www.geocities.com/badmojowerks

those guys can all do it im 95% sure

[FESTUS33]

Firstly you don't mill that,
you turn and thread it on a
lathe. It's not really that
difficult if you have a lathe
{Me wishes I had on to go with
my mill }
Rick

[xen_100]

(ya, but how many people know the difference? people grind away with thier dremel and call it milling)

[confedman75]

i do some machining at my work and it is physicalys impossible to turn such extremely wide threads into such extremely fine threads, although there is a way that i COULD do is fill up the space inbetween the threads with weld bead and then tap that. but that will be alot of hours and $$$$ it would be almost cheaper to get a barrel with 98 threads.

[FESTUS33]

Originally posted by xen_100
(ya, but how many people know the difference? people grind away with thier dremel and call it milling)

True too true
Having been a machinist for 20 yr's it's a little
hard to relate to that, but some children's people.

Rick

[JEDI]

Thanks a lot guys. I'll look into some of those options. Any body want a Stainless '98 Custom barrel?

I appologize if I offended some of you Machinists with my mislabeling of the "milling" process. I am a slacker.

[TheJester]

yea, you don't mill threads, pretty much all a mill is a fancy drill press, you do threads on a lathe. i honestly don't think it would work too great, because threads are already cut, you may end up haveing 2 threads on it and because of that, neither of them working. there may be enough meat on there, because 98 have such coarse threads, but you would have to turn it down to the major diameter of the cocker thread (which is prolly 1/2 way threw the thinkness of the 98 thread), other than that, it's just setting your lathe to the number of threads/inch, thread cutting is actually easy, it's just boring to do