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Jeff H
06-16-2011, 09:21 PM
Since before I started trying to figure out what rifle I needed for pest control, I found the right light - a Fenix TK11. Shortly after I got it, I got the remote tail switch, and since I am not of the "Tactical Persuasion," I could NOT find a way to mount my light. Nothing I own has a "rail" on it, least of all my Rossi '92.

So, I made one today. Now that I have the light, a load using a LEE 158 TL SWC that is quieter than the two pellet rifles I tried and optics which may or may not stay, I am set. No more fumbling with light and rifle.

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t284/mike-foxtrot/RLM02.jpg

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t284/mike-foxtrot/RLM01.jpg

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t284/mike-foxtrot/RLM003.jpg

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t284/mike-foxtrot/RLM004.jpg

I couldn't find a block of aluminum, but I did have some scraps from 1" thick gray PVC sheet. Machining it is weird, as all the chips are stringly and burrs or flash have to be trimmed with a really sharp knife - no scraping or it will look terrible. I used 1/4-20 screws just because I knew threads would hold. Smaller/finer and you get a boogery mess of stripped threads. Finished it off with 120 grit, chamfered all the edges and mounted it up.

I am a woodworker, by the way, not a machinist, so I won't go into the hillbilly methods I employed, but a table saw and a drill press were all the power tools necessary.

Now that this one is set up for specific use, I will need a new levergun to just be a levergun - no doo-dads except a peep sight.
fecmech
06-16-2011, 11:00 PM
:holysheep You need to post that over on the Levergun board! Nice job BTW
dragonrider
06-17-2011, 09:16 AM
Looks very good from Linwood. Well done.
x101airborne
06-17-2011, 01:33 PM
Top notch, all around. I am getting a new (cheapy) mill in a couple months for projects such as that. Wish you could showme how to run it!
Jeff H
06-17-2011, 07:02 PM
.....Wish you could showme how to run it!

Thanks.

You must have missed the part about me being a woodworker.
I used a table saw and a drill press.
The only "mill" I have has "Nicholson" stamped on the handle tang.

I bet the two of us could figure it out eventually though.:D
Jeff H
06-17-2011, 07:29 PM
By the way, the Duro spray adhesive did NOT stick to the remote switch.
It stuck to the wood just fine, but the switch fell off by morning.
Looks like it's time for some good ol' fashioned, double sided carpet tape!:redneck:
Geraldo
06-19-2011, 11:31 AM
I won't go into the hillbilly methods I employed

I'm of the mind that the results matter, the methods are less important.

Nice work and anice varmint rig. Did you make the scope mount as well?

PS-Although I know the basics of using a mill, the only one I own is a Nicholson like yours.
Geraldo
06-19-2011, 01:42 PM
By the way, the Duro spray adhesive did NOT stick to the remote switch.
It stuck to the wood just fine, but the switch fell off by morning.
Looks like it's time for some good ol' fashioned, double sided carpet tape!:redneck:

Harware stores sell two sided exterior tape. That and wire ties are your friends.
Jeff H
06-19-2011, 03:59 PM
Harware stores sell two sided exterior tape. That and wire ties are your friends.

Thanks for the tip.
Nearest one here is prbably two hours, so I will keep trying.
Tried hot melt glue gun today - no go.
For now, it has duck (not "duct") tape on it.

No, I bought the mount through Amazon for something like $13, screws, postage and all.

.357shooter posted a while back about the part numbers and sorted out the difference between the one for their single shot and the one for the '92. The descriptions are misleading.
fecmech
06-19-2011, 04:14 PM
Try silicone caulk as an adhesive if you have any.
Jeff H
06-19-2011, 05:14 PM
Try silicone caulk as an adhesive if you have any.

Dang, man!! I don't know why I didn't think of that!:groner:

Plenty of that lying around too.

Thanks.
revolvergeek
06-20-2011, 01:41 PM
Very nice! I have thought about doing something like that but never got around to rigging it up.
Jeff H
06-20-2011, 04:53 PM
And here is what they look like when they hit steel at 25 yards (angled to prevent potential ricochets from coming back to me).

Crappy cell phone pic:
http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t284/mike-foxtrot/158TLCS.jpg
GREENCOUNTYPETE
06-22-2011, 09:27 AM
what do they look like when you hit the corn crib at 25 yards , a friend was borrowing one of my guns for deer he had a coon in the corn crib his 22 was put away so he used my 30-30 with 150 gr factory loads and proceed to learn about over penetration luckily it only cost him some 1 by lumber to fix up the corn crib. he was actually more mad at the coon than he was worried about the corn crib.

he found the same thing you probably knew it is very hard to hold a flash light and a lever gun