Did you somehow manage to change the angle of the firing pin channel without first plugging it?
Did you somehow manage to change the angle of the firing pin channel without first plugging it?
Cognitive Dissident
I didn't do anything like that - I simply marked the breechblock face for the CF firing pin hole via a sharpie dropped down bore against the closed breechblock & drilled the new FP hole in the breechblock with a 1/16" sacrificial drill bit, then ground the face of the original RF firing pin face flat and reinstalled it in the breechblock to drill a 1/16" dimple/hole through the new hole into the flat FP face to mark it for the new FP.
I again removed the FP & finish drilling the FP face to about 1/4" deep for the new FP - which I made from the shank of the 1/16" drill bit (why I referred to it as sacrificial), ground to length (for proper protrusion from the breech face.
The new FP tip was then epoxied in place ( I didn't want to bother with soldering it in)
The .32 Short Colt chambered readily in the .32RF chamber & fired w/o any issues.
E-Z-Peazy........
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Now I lay me down to sleep
A gun beside me is what I keep
If I awake, and you're inside
The coroner's van is your next ride
Does not compute. From .32 RF to centerfire, the tip axis has to move about .170 inches. This places it well outside the circumference of a #4 firing pin body. The firing pin would have to be over .400" diameter to do it that way. Might work for the full size rolling blocks, but not a #4. The drawing below shows the layout for a Favorite, which has a pin body diameter of .200". The #4 pin body appears to be even smaller.
Cognitive Dissident
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Theory is one thing, reality another...........What can I say - I didn't have any "technical" drawings, so didn't know it couldn't be done.
So I just noodled it out & did it, and it worked.
Now I lay me down to sleep
A gun beside me is what I keep
If I awake, and you're inside
The coroner's van is your next ride
To a #4.
Cognitive Dissident
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 |