Clark
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I have:
1) Oxyacetylene set up
2) Mauser bolt bending jig as sold by Midway and Brownell's with a stake.
3) two sets of welding goggles
4) some big gloves
5) a home made brass heat sink with buttressing threads that match the inside of the bolt body [just a foot of brass rod with some threads that lean to one side]
6) a 75 pound vice that I can put in the middle of the shop floor
7) a can of welder's paste
1) The bolt is stripped. Taking the extractor off is easy, it will take some practice getting it back on. Do not remove the extractor retaining ring. The square bolt handle base has a radius ground per the jig instructions [I don't bother], no reciever modification is required.
2) The bolt body is filled with welder's paste and the heat sink screwed in.
3) The bolt body is put in the jig, which is put in the vice.
4) Goggles are adorned, and I put on big gloves.
5) My brother fires up the torch and gets the base of the bolt handle red hot.
6) I pound on the stake [A big drift with a radius in one dimension on the tip] with the sledge hammer and the stake pushes the bolt handle over at the base.
7) I like the shape the bolt handle with a curve so it wraps around the scope eyepiece but gives clearance, so the minimum of stock needs to be relieved.
8 For heavy recoiling 458 magnum rifles, no rearward sweep of the bolt handle is desirable. For 250 Savage, some rearward sweep is wanted.
9) When the bolt is bent, the bolt body is lifted out of the jig by the heat sink and lowered into a bucket of water with only the bolt handle sticking out of the water. The goal is to get the bolt handle bent without the nearby cocking cam [bevel at rear of bolt body] changing color beyond "straw" color.
10) My brother shapes his bent bolts with a die grinder so the bolt looks fancy. I just leave mine with the forged look.
11) I have bent 25 VZ24 and Turk Mauser bolts in a day. And I have seen others bend and re bend and re bend the same bolt handle all day.
12) I have had 91/30 bolts TIG welded and I have my bent Mauser bolts, both are strong enough to stand on the handle like a pogo stick to clear a stuck case.
Pic of VZ24 with bent bolt
1) Oxyacetylene set up
2) Mauser bolt bending jig as sold by Midway and Brownell's with a stake.
3) two sets of welding goggles
4) some big gloves
5) a home made brass heat sink with buttressing threads that match the inside of the bolt body [just a foot of brass rod with some threads that lean to one side]
6) a 75 pound vice that I can put in the middle of the shop floor
7) a can of welder's paste
1) The bolt is stripped. Taking the extractor off is easy, it will take some practice getting it back on. Do not remove the extractor retaining ring. The square bolt handle base has a radius ground per the jig instructions [I don't bother], no reciever modification is required.
2) The bolt body is filled with welder's paste and the heat sink screwed in.
3) The bolt body is put in the jig, which is put in the vice.
4) Goggles are adorned, and I put on big gloves.
5) My brother fires up the torch and gets the base of the bolt handle red hot.
6) I pound on the stake [A big drift with a radius in one dimension on the tip] with the sledge hammer and the stake pushes the bolt handle over at the base.
7) I like the shape the bolt handle with a curve so it wraps around the scope eyepiece but gives clearance, so the minimum of stock needs to be relieved.
8 For heavy recoiling 458 magnum rifles, no rearward sweep of the bolt handle is desirable. For 250 Savage, some rearward sweep is wanted.
9) When the bolt is bent, the bolt body is lifted out of the jig by the heat sink and lowered into a bucket of water with only the bolt handle sticking out of the water. The goal is to get the bolt handle bent without the nearby cocking cam [bevel at rear of bolt body] changing color beyond "straw" color.
10) My brother shapes his bent bolts with a die grinder so the bolt looks fancy. I just leave mine with the forged look.
11) I have bent 25 VZ24 and Turk Mauser bolts in a day. And I have seen others bend and re bend and re bend the same bolt handle all day.
12) I have had 91/30 bolts TIG welded and I have my bent Mauser bolts, both are strong enough to stand on the handle like a pogo stick to clear a stuck case.
Pic of VZ24 with bent bolt