Firing pins (rolling block)

[beng]

Any one know where you can get firing pins for a 1879 Argentine #1 Remington Rolling Block????????

[calaloo]

Easy to make. The hole is your pattern. With pin all the way forward the front should protrude about .050. Use tough steel. Spring from car trunk is one source. no hardening necessary. Otherwise try http://www.rollingblockparts.com/

[Hooker53]

Good info Calaloo. IV used car springs for many parts. Colt buggie whip springs and small firing pins. Just file and grind it slowly dunking in water VERY often. When your setting up the length of your retainer screw, the front mark is with the striking tip retracted back into the breech block and the rear with as Calaloo stated, .050 to .055 protruding.

Leave the length on the rear of your pin long untill you fig how much you will need for the hammer to strike it good and hard. I have used old broken drill bit shanks for shotgun firing pins. Finding one the right size that fits well and slides back and forth in your pin channel is good and half your work is done right here.

[country gent]

We used the torrsion springs from chrysler front suspensions for pry bars and to turn things from. Was very good steel. Drill shanls are good and are somewhat hard depending on the drill bits. I ground some diffrent firing pins from ejector pins and really hard used core pins. Banding can sometimes be used for flat springs. I perfered making the part from the correct material and hardening and anealing to be right. Another thing to check and do while making the new pin is to see if the hole needs bushed in the breech block.

[bstone5]

A grade 8 bolt is often used as the material to make firing pins in a lathe.

[MaLar]

Try this business I believe the gentlemans name is Dick Binger

Stotts Creek Armory Inc (http://www.manta.com/c/mm50k8m/stotts-creek-armory-inc)2526 South 475 West
Morgantown, IN 46160 -
Phone: (317) 878-5489

[Lumpy grits]

Drill rod is also very good for the pin itself.
LG

[Col4570]

My 50.70 Rolling Block Rifle had a floating firing pin when I acquired it.The tip had broken off.I made a new one out of a hexagonal Allen key and modified to incorporate a return spring so that the pin is clear of the face when opening the breach or loading.

[Col4570]

http://i1052.photobucket.com/albums/s452/livebattery/RemintonRollingBlockRifle5070Cal001.jpg (http://s1052.photobucket.com/user/livebattery/media/RemintonRollingBlockRifle5070Cal001.jpg.html)

[phunon]

Can you gove me some fotos or a drawing on how to do this. I have a 43 Egyptian I bought with no FP or retaining screw.

[enfield]

I 2nd the grade 8 bolt, a piece of 1/4 inch turned down on a lathe is the easiest. I'm sure it could be done with a grinder, a drill press and a file if you don't have a lathe.

[enfield]

If you google "rolling block firing pin" you will see all the pictures you need. I that isn't enough info to make a pin you better just buy one.

[bubba.50]

www.rollingblockparts.com (http://www.rollingblockparts.com) shows a firing pin for a #1 rolling block for $12.00 and one for a #5 rolling block for $20.00