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Thread: Making a Spanish Destroyer Bolt

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    Boolit Master


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    Making a Spanish Destroyer Bolt

    I picked up a decent Spanish Destroyer Carbine and don’t want to alter it to make it use 9mm Luger ammunition.
    I plan to get a couple of the Destroyers from SARCO that are missing the bolts and have cracked stocks and a barreled receiver to modify.
    Since I now have a bolt to copy and the Largo cartridge is not high pressure I am going to copy the bolt to use in the 9mm Luger version.
    9mm 1911 mags can be easily modified to use in the Destroyer so that solves that problem!

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    I am making progress, mainly taking measurements and making sketches!

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    Id like to see your progress. Any pics?

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    I don’t know how to post pics!

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    In the reply box there is an icon for attachments. If your pics are on a pc hit "choose file" and then "upload". If the pic file is too large, it will fail. I open them in Paint and resize to 50%.

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    Cool project! I'd consider a bent spring extractor, the extractor retention design on the original is, IMO, tenuous.

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    It is getting tedious taking measurements and making the drawings!
    Lots of details.

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    I have made the bolt handle and I am almost finished with the shaft drawings!
    I made a mistake on the first one and will use to test bending it!
    I am going to have to make a fixture to make sure that the timing is right during different operations and it will double as the jig for silver soldering the handle on the shaft.

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    Starting to make the long part of the bolts since I figured out how to contour the area between the bolt lugs to match the radius of the rest of the shaft!

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    Any chance you might make some to sell once you've got it down?

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    I would be interested in buying them also.

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    Not a chance, too much time and too much liability exposure!

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