In making the 308 tanker Garand? I'm sure there is more than switching barrels and a little gas system work. Any links? Just a retired guy with crazy ideas.

Yes, much is involved and much is black magic to make them function; they basically cannot work and this is a marginal idea to begin with. Shoot your M1 as it was designed to do. I have made a few of them shoot, and it is not for the faint hearted. No, I won't work on any more. There is a reason that it was never produced by Springfield Armory. The real one.

I don't understand dpcd?
You said in another thread it was "childs play"

Here is the post below.....
"Hmmm; this is a very easy thing to do; here are the numbers; the barrel is .515 forward of the gas port; with a .366 groove, that gives you .0745 wall thickness. I have double rifles with .080 muzzle walls, so that is not bad for a start. Muzzle pressure is easily contained with modern chrome moly barrel steel. I could easily open the threads in the gas cylinder lock to get another ten thousandths (per side) of barrel wall thickness, which would put you at .085 wall. OR, making a new cylinder lock could allow the barrel to be the full .600 OD that it is at the gas port. Giving a full .117 barrel wall; enough for anything.
Anyone who can make a Garand barrel can make a blank suitable for custom front end machining.
Child's play."

All I was addressing was Grenadier's post; "I, too, was interested in a 9.3x62 Garand". He did not mention a Tanker in 9.3 I was not talking about building a Tanker at all; my post did not address that aspect of it; I was obviously commenting on the barrel thickness for a 9.3; read my post. You won't catch me up on this one.
Making a Tanker is a bad idea in any caliber. Tankers are hard to make work, although some guys manage to. And many do not work well.
The barrel is the easy part in any case; it is the modified operating rod and recoil spring that have to be absolutely perfect in order for them to work. I just don't like them and don't like to work on them. Give me a standard M1 any day.

Thanx for the comments. Got one that is getting pretty worn and was considering options. Most likely the best option is to go back original. A young friend was shooting mine yesterday and was giggling like a little girl with each shot. They are fun.

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Originally posted by Mark Taylor:
In making the 308 tanker Garand? I'm sure there is more than switching barrels and a little gas system work. Any links? Just a retired guy with crazy ideas.

Can't help with a DYI solution but Fulton Armory has worked out a Tanker M1. All it takes is a checkbook and a $2300 balance. Maybe $250 less if they cannibalize your receiver.

The perfect M1 in 7.62X51or 308 was/is being made.
They are called M-14/M1-A.

Would have been Patton's finest battle implement, but he was gone before they appeared on the scene.