A good machinist or tool & die maker with a CNC mill could fix the thread and make a new nut in a couple of hours. But unless you know somebody like that, you're out of luck.
One way to fix it...
Type: Posts; User: Cap'n Morgan
Forum: Casting Equipment
A good machinist or tool & die maker with a CNC mill could fix the thread and make a new nut in a couple of hours. But unless you know somebody like that, you're out of luck.
One way to fix it...
Forum: Special Projects
But if you use a starter solenoid, any remote controller/receiver capable of closing a circuit (like juniors old RC car) will do.
Forum: Special Projects
Over here we used the solenoid from a car starter.
Forum: Special Projects
I would most certainly go for a "mechanical" trigger. Make the connection rod from an arrow shaft - aluminum or carbon - it will be both stiff and lightweight.
Forum: Shot Guns
Don't feel sorry, LB, I'll back you up:
While I was still a teen, a friend's father complained of a branch on a large chestnut tree, interfering with the flag on their flagpole.
Always willing to...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
If there's room enough, I would probably enlarge and deepen the dove tail slot in the slide to allow for a sturdier insert.
You could also reduce the sight's male dove tail - or make a "stepped"...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I had a CZ 75 once, and It was very finicky when shooting with a full (15 rounds) magazine. After being dropped on the ground a few times (IPSC shooting) the magazines would fail to feed properly. It...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I've seen one of those modified M53 rifles. The rear sight had been removed and the various holes been filled/welded and milled flat. A new V-groove rear sight had added directly on the barrel, and...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Well, no harm came to the barrels, except for a slight resistance when screwing in the bottom choke. A thread tap would no doubt cure that, but, alas, I don't have one.
Luckily, the chokes were of...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Good observation!
I've seen the same thing with the screw-in chokes on a Beretta. I first saw the gun at a gun shop. It was a second-hand gun, but it looked like new.
When I remarked that the...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
My dad had to do the same exercise as a mechanist apprentice.
In this video from the Krieghoff company, we learn that it takes three years to become a gunsmith. The whole first year of the...
One way to improve venting is to use a checkering file to (carefully) add venting lines across the top of the mold.
A thread repair file is cheaper and will also do the trick.
Clamp some sort of...
Forum: Special Projects
Isn't gel just water without the splash? I would think a trough, maybe 1'x1'x4', would stop anything and give a fairly good idea of the expansion. Of course you'll need some sort of rubber seal in...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
If your brass rods are made from a free cutting brass alloy (and they probably are), you don't really need to use cutting fluid.
Don't worry about breaking the shavings either, as they will come off...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Lightening the hammer (like when bobbing it) doesn't necessarily result in a weaker primer strike. If the weight reduction makes the hammer drop faster, it may actually strike harder.
I once...
For what it's worth, I've seen a lot of beautiful Damascus barreled hammer guns on Holts auctions which have been re-proofed for smokeless loads - Like this one:
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I guess the material was PP? You can add a foaming agent to the material prior to molding. This will reduce shrinking to almost zero, and reduce weight as well, saving money.
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Forum: Leverguns
Hi Longbow. Good to see I'm not the only person to draw out projects over a decade or more.
At the moment I'm tinkering with a 1885 replica in 45-70, and one of the things I learned the hard way...
Forum: Special Projects
A little heat, quickly applied and in the right place, can sometimes works wonders.
There's a good article about the Vitt slug, by George Vitt himself, in this 1963 GUNS Magazine. It also has some loading recipes with Red Dot, Unique and Herco powders.
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Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
When I bought my 1885 Uberti replica, it would misfire 50% of the time (somehow the seller forgot to mention it)
I put a bend on the coil spring to increase tension, and the misfires were reduced...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Whatever design you decide on; make sure the boolit is not undersized!
I've been tinkering lately with a 400 grain plinking boolit for my Uberti 1885 45-70. A 10x beefed-up 22.LR so to speak.
The...
Forum: Cast Boolits
Two methods for catching an unblemished boolit:
1) Stand in the middle of a swimming pool. Fire the gun at exactly an angle of (mumble, mumble) towards the earth's rotation and wait for the...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
Reading this thread got me remembering a somewhat embarrassing incident in my youth.
I was shooting IPSC with a 9mm CZ 75, and sometimes the slide wouldn't stay back when the gun was empty. I...
That's what I was thinking, but Tightwad is an even faster burning powder than Tightgroup (which is still at the fast end of powders). The bloopers were probably caused by space between powder & wad....
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |