Does anyone know where I can get one of those Chapman 2 position safety milling fixtures....or something like it?

I answered this somewhere else I think. Unless you are doing several of these, a fixture is not needed.

Small file. Not hard, just takes a little longer.

Did mine the easy way. Had someone else cut it.

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Originally posted by Mark Taylor:
Small file. Not hard, just takes a little longer.

I am talking about cutting the shroud. That would take a lot longer.

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Originally posted by dpcd:
I answered this somewhere else I think. Unless you are doing several of these, a fixture is not needed.

Yes Sir you did.........

I still believe I'd like to have one though......

If you have a milling machine then they are very easy to make; a block of ally with a hole bored through and a shelf that will locate on the bottom of the shroud then use a through bolt to hold it in.

Metal

Are the slots in the jig for indexing the cutter(s) to proper location?

Are there several more photos in the series to completion

Yes.
True, if you have a milling machine, they are easy to make. If you don't, then you can't alter bolt shrouds anyway.
As Metal said, you don't need the clamp; the shroud can't rotate because it sits on the shelf you mill into the face of the fixture.

Yes and there are holes & measurements on top to find the pivot point and index where to come in with the woodruff cutter.
Sorry no precess pics.

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Originally posted by TCLouis:
Metal

Are the slots in the jig for indexing the cutter(s) to proper location?

Are there several more photos in the series to completion

I used to simply hold them by the thread extension in the spacer or dividing head in a 5C collet adapter. The last few, including one that I milled all to hell and back to make a cutaway-demo Mauser, I actually held in the mill vise in an ER40 block that I bought from ARCeurotrade. It worked slick as hell and held a lot tighter than the 5Cs did. As long as you hold the threaded portion in a collet you won't damage the treads.

ER40 by Rod Henrickson, on Flickr

I did all of this damage in the ER40 and I was really plowing the carbide cutters.

milled shroud by Rod Henrickson, on Flickr

This is is a 5C adapter. In that photo it's pretending to be a 1-1/8th inch pin vise.

1 18 pin vise by Rod Henrickson, on Flickr

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Originally posted by metal:
You don't need the clamp bolt, just the through bolt.

Yep! That's it! Where can I get one?????

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Does this mean I have to make one?

Jim Wisner used to have them for sale

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Originally posted by dpcd:
Does this mean I have to make one?

No Sir. SKB has one he is gonna sell me. But thank you very much!!!!!

Now those Mex firing pins you where gonna do a run of............

On the back burner.

I have a new fixture to install a 2 position or perhaps a 3 pos. safety with instructions..if anyone wants it Id let it go in trade or cash..didn't intend on selling it, don't know what its worth, but heck Ive never used it..sounds like what some of you might need more than I.