I'd think of it like this: The cost of the barrel is less than the cost of a trip to the hospital.
I'd think of it like this: The cost of the barrel is less than the cost of a trip to the hospital.
I have a new left hand 50 cal barrel in stock. It looks like a drop in for a T/C Hawkins, includes sights and under rib.
I was told that the problem they had with the crack(s) was from the assembly of the breechplug to the bbl. Simple overtightening. Probably done with an airwrench set up of some sort in todays factory settings.
Slightly out of spec shoulders on the bbl or plug or both and then needing some extra crunch & crush to make them allaign the flats where needed. I could see where a soft steel bbl being nothing more than a tube could start to twist and set up a fracture point.
That's how it was explained to me, and me not being a real life mechanical engineer type, just passing the info along.
Upon seeing those cracks, I'd have cut a couple inches off the breech and set the bbl back. It takes some work.
Getting an orig length factory replacement bbl for a drop in is way easier though.
First thing I'm going to do with the new barrel is run the bore scope down and have a look. I'll post a pic of the new barrel for comparison. It's really amazing how much the bore scope magnifies the images. It makes the machine work look so crude you wonder why patches don't shred. Yet with the naked eye the tooling marks are barely visible.
Sounds like a plan ,a good plan/Ed
Yep, I had a lot of mirror bores till I bought one of those things!
I would use that barrel after shortened and re breached for building another gun , after cutting off the crack , tap and breach get a stock to inlet , it already has the barrel tenons and sights , time for a custom build of your own .
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