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troy fairweather
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Great to have around and I've got to bed a few rifles this weekend, un opened can are going for over hundred bucks on eBay.
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What gunsmithing or repairs have you done today
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When I last epoxy-bedded something (back in the 90s) I had a can of paste turtle wax I'd had around since the early 80s. Is the new production stuff not suitable?
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New stuff probably is just fine, just familiar with the jpw. I like kiwi shoe polish but that's getting expensive and harder to find the natural stuff. The johnsons wax has a lot of uses, good on the whole gun for bad weather or just to protect when being stored.
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I came across a wax that was called gunstock wax, and I don’t recall who it was they even made it. I did think to test it, and did discover that it did not work well for a release agent. But for waterproofing, etc. it was spectacular! When I couldn’t find naturals kiwicom, I used the brown color. It worked… I also robbed some Play-Doh out of my daughters toybox…
Continued smoothing up things today— replaced the tiny thumb safety with an OEM extended safety I got on sale at Midway. Dropped in with a little polishing where it rubbed the frame near the detent. The longer lever sure is easier to manipulate!
The new safety was the left side of an ambidextrous OEM. I cut off the longer pin and polished it up. Oxpho does a nice job on small parts!
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Well rifle is bedded, absolutely filled up the whole lug way in the action fun time cleaning that out. I'll break the screws loose in a few hours and leave it overnight. Pray she comes apart lol.
Fabricated some fixture plate brass stops recommended by Joe Piezynski (Advanced Innovations machinist fixture plate mfg.) . 360 Brass 1/2" dia. round stock, #10 center drill, #10 cap head screw counterbore, chamfered, done. Fixture accessories held with 10-32 fasteners.
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Well it came apart, had a few small spots where the bedding was thin break away but it's fine where it counts. Another day I'll bed the trigger guard and the floor plate since there some gaps being a pre-64 in a post stock. Pillars set pretty good will fill the rest in from the bottom when I bed the bottom metal.
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Here is the completed build. It is chambered in 6.5 x 55 Swede. I built it on an orphaned 1893 receiver that is remarkably good shape in-fact it is one out of the last lot of eleven that I bought last year. Now it is time to post the stats.
Receiver: 1893 Mauser likely a 1916 Spaniard but I cant tell because the crest was roll pressed off once upon a time. I took it completely down to the white and blued it again using Mark Lees express brown.
Barrel: 24 inch Douglas 6.5X55 Swede 1 in 9 right hand twist 6 lands and groves. I used Mark Lees express brown for the bluing.
Walnut Stock was a semi inlet bought on eBay and has 6 coats of boiled linseed oil as of now.
The scope rings are leupold medium high bases.
It has the Dayton Traister mark II safety.
The scope is the Bushnell Banner II with the BDC reticle.
I forged the bolt handle to accommodate the lower scope base.
I jeweled the bolt and extractor.
The trigger breaks cleanly at 4.25 pounds.
The range report will be soon. I have to load some bullets up and develop some loads for it.
Receiver: 1893 Mauser likely a 1916 Spaniard but I cant tell because the crest was roll pressed off once upon a time. I took it completely down to the white and blued it again using Mark Lees express brown.
Barrel: 24 inch Douglas 6.5X55 Swede 1 in 9 right hand twist 6 lands and groves. I used Mark Lees express brown for the bluing.
Walnut Stock was a semi inlet bought on eBay and has 6 coats of boiled linseed oil as of now.
The scope rings are leupold medium high bases.
It has the Dayton Traister mark II safety.
The scope is the Bushnell Banner II with the BDC reticle.
I forged the bolt handle to accommodate the lower scope base.
I jeweled the bolt and extractor.
The trigger breaks cleanly at 4.25 pounds.
The range report will be soon. I have to load some bullets up and develop some loads for it.
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One more accessory for the small part fixture plate.
Joe Pie recommended a small v-block fabrication.
I used 6061 T6 aluminum 1x2x12" precision ground on all sides from Mcmaster Carr. Band sawed to close dimensions, then milled to final desired dimensions.
The advantage of using this v-block on a small parts fixture plate is that it will allow me to get close access to the work with very small end mills / drill bits, prohibited by even a small Starrett v-block due to its too large arch clamp. I plan on fabricating some short horizontal clamps for the Starrett, just not soon.
Those are 0.107 / 0.108" gage pins held in the v-block.
Joe Pie recommended a small v-block fabrication.
I used 6061 T6 aluminum 1x2x12" precision ground on all sides from Mcmaster Carr. Band sawed to close dimensions, then milled to final desired dimensions.
The advantage of using this v-block on a small parts fixture plate is that it will allow me to get close access to the work with very small end mills / drill bits, prohibited by even a small Starrett v-block due to its too large arch clamp. I plan on fabricating some short horizontal clamps for the Starrett, just not soon.
Those are 0.107 / 0.108" gage pins held in the v-block.
Well this is a continuance of the small fixture plate accessories fabrication for holding small gunsmith parts on the mill.
Tinkering in the shop today, fabricated a 0.9 x 0.7 x 0.3" flat holding clamp with 10-32 set screws for belt & suspenders
fixation of small part. Also modified my small sight jig to fit on the fixture plate. That is all.
Tinkering in the shop today, fabricated a 0.9 x 0.7 x 0.3" flat holding clamp with 10-32 set screws for belt & suspenders
fixation of small part. Also modified my small sight jig to fit on the fixture plate. That is all.
Final accessory fabrication for the small parts fixture plate today.
This clamp to the underside of the fixture plate allows its use in vises less than 2" opening; reduced to 1". More importantly,
the clamp allows the fixture plate to rest atop the verified hard jaw square surfaces to provide a 360 degree access to rotation
of any part without limitation by the walls of the vise and its parallels.
This clamp to the underside of the fixture plate allows its use in vises less than 2" opening; reduced to 1". More importantly,
the clamp allows the fixture plate to rest atop the verified hard jaw square surfaces to provide a 360 degree access to rotation
of any part without limitation by the walls of the vise and its parallels.
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Just bedded the m70 bottom metal, see how that comes out tomorrow.
I am thinking of camo painting the stock, winchester had in the 90s when this stock was made on the stainless classics mossy oak treadstand pattern I'm thinking to maybe copy.
I am thinking of camo painting the stock, winchester had in the 90s when this stock was made on the stainless classics mossy oak treadstand pattern I'm thinking to maybe copy.
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The bottom metal came out good so I did the top a bit better. Removed some more plastic on the sides next to the lug drilled some holes to hold the bedding better and bed about a inch of the barrel, added some more to the tang area to fill In a few air bubbles. All come out fine, even got the barrel centered along the forend. Free floated the barrel at the forend with about 3 wraps of tape about .015" I would like more clearance but was afraid the barrel wouldn't sit straight, I may remove some from the forend to be sure the barrel won't hit if I'm leaning on it good.
Just need to make up a 1/2" recoil pad, like to get the scope back more but either need a different scope or more offset then the Talley ul have. I hope maybe that leupold sale brownells has lasts to the end of the month maybe I could pick one up but can't find when there sale ends. It's $100 a few freedoms and vx-3hds. Decide on some camo, thinking bottom land like the 90s classics had. Then to the range.
Just need to make up a 1/2" recoil pad, like to get the scope back more but either need a different scope or more offset then the Talley ul have. I hope maybe that leupold sale brownells has lasts to the end of the month maybe I could pick one up but can't find when there sale ends. It's $100 a few freedoms and vx-3hds. Decide on some camo, thinking bottom land like the 90s classics had. Then to the range.
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That thing looks fuzzy! I love cleaning one up and it's back to squeaky clean.
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Loonwulfs 6 arc and my 9.3x62 shaw barrel where delivered, I'll get his barrel out to him and next time I'm up at my dad's I'll get it on my 09 argentine mauser, hope the old barrel comes off smooth it's got some bore pitting and was chambered to 3006 so I may do the relief cut on the shoulder to make things go smoother.
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Nothing today since I don't have some of the parts to complete the next build. Which is a stock and a barrel for another Small Ring Mauser and it will be chambered for .257 Roberts.
A friend of mine who lives in Co. has shipped me a 7 pound box of large ring parts that was given to him to give to me. His gunsmith was just going to throw it all in the trash.Thankfully my friend was in the right place at the right time and was thoughtful enough to remember that I am a Mauser nut. In the box are 7 trigger guards and a couple of complete bolts with some other loose parts. Talk about hitting the gun parts lottery. I'm stoked about it.
So in the future there will be some large ring Muasers that I'll build on orphaned receivers just like I have been with the small ring receivers that I have. So effective immediately I'm on the hunt for an orphan looking for home and I already have a barrel to marry it to. The barrel is already chambered for .338 Gibbs it just needs to be threaded for the Mauser instead of the Arasaka. I had planned on putting that barrel on one of my Type 99 Arasaka orphans. It will be a lot less work to make sporters with Mauser's than Arasaka's and there are far more parts available for them and I can chamber them for just about anything.
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A friend of mine who lives in Co. has shipped me a 7 pound box of large ring parts that was given to him to give to me. His gunsmith was just going to throw it all in the trash.Thankfully my friend was in the right place at the right time and was thoughtful enough to remember that I am a Mauser nut. In the box are 7 trigger guards and a couple of complete bolts with some other loose parts. Talk about hitting the gun parts lottery. I'm stoked about it.
So in the future there will be some large ring Muasers that I'll build on orphaned receivers just like I have been with the small ring receivers that I have. So effective immediately I'm on the hunt for an orphan looking for home and I already have a barrel to marry it to. The barrel is already chambered for .338 Gibbs it just needs to be threaded for the Mauser instead of the Arasaka. I had planned on putting that barrel on one of my Type 99 Arasaka orphans. It will be a lot less work to make sporters with Mauser's than Arasaka's and there are far more parts available for them and I can chamber them for just about anything.
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I had a beautiful swede in 257R, gave it to my dad but he had to sell it for some money after he broke his neck.miss that gun. Nice save of your buddy, have a cases of beer dropped off for him. I have a boyds lam thumb hole stock but it's been a bit butchered to fit a type 99, bunch of wood was removed to clear the bolt shroud since there comb is pretty much with the bore line. One day I was going to cut out the wood and patch new wood in and coat it with something but haven't come across and small rings lately for a project.
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I zelled him some shekels last night for the purpose of getting a couple of cases of beer or taking his old lady to dinner. I know he'll take his Smith to lunch with the money just to keep the network open for me. He and I served in the Army together so he's my brother from another mother. We go back a long time.
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Nice you still keep up with guys you served with, I know my dad says he wished he kept in contact with guys he was in with when at Polk. So you just need a stock and barrel, had Midway been doing any small ring barrels lately Green mountain used to keep stock but there often to buy filling there orders to do much for in stock stuff. Catch shaw at the right time or if you can get dealer discounts there pretty reasonable wish they had some small ring barrel in there store but haven't seen any in years from them. To bad they didn't keep making the Adam and Bennett barrels after they bought them out, dad use them slot buying 10 at a time they were like $35 each and shot pretty good most time.
Dad may have a small ring stock laying around I'll see tomorrow what he has.
Thanks for your service btw.
Tinkering in the shop today.
Fabricated from 6061 T6 aluminum 3" round stock a "mini-me" lathe tail stock round die holder for some of the Brownells small diameter blank screws. First time knurling on the lathe so I practiced on some tool steel rod before I applied the scissor knurler to my finished work piece.
Need to practice turning threads on the lathe, until then this will do.
Fabricated from 6061 T6 aluminum 3" round stock a "mini-me" lathe tail stock round die holder for some of the Brownells small diameter blank screws. First time knurling on the lathe so I practiced on some tool steel rod before I applied the scissor knurler to my finished work piece.
Need to practice turning threads on the lathe, until then this will do.
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Well , one side is done . Not as simple as I thought it would be . My amateur skill level and 55 year old mill probably doesn’t help .