Hello, all. This is my first post. This looked like exactly the forum I have been looking for.

I am an 07 FFL, a firearms manufacturer. Most of our firearms can be made in our shop. Certain steps have been farmed out to others such as milling slots in a receiver tube and turning down an assault rifle barrel shoulder so the barrel will time. Most parts have been made by others as we buy quantities of parts to build the guns.

Now I would like to keep all processes in-house. So I need a basic metal lathe (mostly to turn barrel shoulders) which is simple. I need a milling machine to mill slots 1/2" wide and 6" long. The mill must also drill very accurate holes from .125" to 1/2" in diameter. The mill also has to make cutouts in tubing that are square. Sight dovetails also need to be milled.

Most of what we build are FN-FAL's, L1A1's, Model 1911 .45ACP pistols and the AR in it's variants. Also M1 Garands and M-1 Carbines.

So I believe that I need rather basic machines and used would fit my budget.

I welcome any advice and hope to find the used lathe and mill I need.

Thanks,

Steve