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    I will probably end up just having my machinist/ tool and die maker buddy who I trust and is fully competent set up the barrel and gas block on his Bridgeport mill. Then he can just lightly spot the drilling area on the gas block with a .125" inch carbide two flute end mill to break through the melonite finish and drill them. I will just have to buy a #2/0 reamer from Brownells or Midway for around $20 so he can fit the taper pin I got from Bravo Co. Having done a lot of machinist type work myself in the past, I can tell you it is not a difficult job *if *you have the right machine tools and experience. If you do not have the tools or experience (drilling and reaming) it can easily lead to a not so good outcome.
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    Quote Originally Posted by markm View Post
    Pappabear went over this topic with White Oak.

    They WON'T do the pinning. They told him.. "why do you want to mess up the barrel harmonics?"

    Depends on the gun's purpose for me. I can see doing it both ways.
    Pinning messes up the harmonics?

    Do you have any more info on this?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Clint View Post
    Pinning messes up the harmonics?

    Do you have any more info on this?
    IMHO, anyway you attach a gas block or muzzle device to a barrel will mess up the harmonics of the barrel to some degree. It is just that some ways can mess it up more than others and affect accuracy more than others. Noveske currently uses a straight pin on the gas blocks on their stainless barrels, and they have built their reputation on accuracy. I believe whether one uses a gas block that is clamp on, has set screws or uses straight or tapered pins, as long as the attachment method keeps the barrel in a somewhat stress free state and does not deform the bore, the barrels accuracy should be pretty much equal using any of them.
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    Knights used to just press the blocks on IIRC.

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    Quote Originally Posted by EzGoingKev View Post
    Knights used to just press the blocks on IIRC.
    Yep. They use a hydraulic press to seat the gas blocks unless they changed this recently.

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    I used this jig when I drilled my Syrac (Noveske barrel install). It was necessary to grind out the top portion a bit, because the Syrac is wider there than the jig accommodated, but otherwise it's very similar in profile to the Vltor the tool was designed for.

    Incidentally, I don't know whether the finish has changed from when they were initially introduced, but I don't remember noticing any issues breaking through it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Clint View Post
    Pinning messes up the harmonics?

    Do you have any more info on this?
    I don't... again... it's what WOA told Pappabear when he talked to them about a barrel he was buying.

    Obviously there are some great shooting barrels with FSBs pinned to them so...
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    Quote Originally Posted by markm View Post
    I don't... again... it's what WOA told Pappabear when he talked to them about a barrel he was buying.

    Obviously there are some great shooting barrels with FSBs pinned to them so...
    I have to preface my statement by saying that I have almost zero metallurigcal expertise. If any experts in the area read this, I hope they'll correct me if I'm incorrect.

    That caveat out of the way, it's my crude understanding that machining steel stresses the metal, and heat treatments relieve this stress. Thus, any machining done post-heat treatment (such as milling holes through the barrel and then reaming them) is going to permanently stress the material. Pounding oversized taper pins into those holes can't help things out, either, and I have to wonder if taper pin installation might even minutely deform the bore.

    As you point out, plenty of taper-pinned barrels shoot pretty damned well, so the effect is apparently not large. Still, the fact that there are very good companies who avoid it with measures like pressed on or clamped gas blocks, or those FSB's which attach via four set screws and milled flats, I have to think there is some accuracy loss from pinning.
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    The amount of material removed to install a taper pin is so small, that it's almost laughable. That you think it could deform the bore is simply over estimating the amount of force being applied and how much structure there is in the barrel - even a pencil profile with a .625 OD at the gas block isn't going to be kinked from a properly placed pin.

    The amount of stress induced by a taper pin is so minimal, that it's not going to impact the accuracy of the barrel. But even if it did - there would only be a change if you looked at POA/POI before and then after the pins were installed. Since you're shooting it in the pinned condition, there's nothing changing from shot to shot, and as such there's no loss of accuracy or repeatability. If the pins were loose, then you might see a change as the inherent stress of the system would be degraded over time and the pins no longer would act as a static load within the system, but even that would be hard to measure at the target and without using sophisticated measuring equipment on the barrel.

    Speaking of the system - the gas block adds a structural support to the barrel, especially if it's rigidly affixed like with pins. It's like adding a truss around the affected area.

    Without doing engineering modeling (beyond my scope of abilities), it'd be hard to say what, if any impact was being imparted by any of the methods (screws impart forces as well). What it all boils down to in the end is that consistency is the highest priority for ultimate accuracy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BufordTJustice View Post
    Yep. They use a hydraulic press to seat the gas blocks unless they changed this recently.

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    They used to press fit the gas block & use two set screws. All new models are pinned with dual taper pins. They started pinning the gas blocks with the introduction of the 2012 lineup.

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