What lies beneath

[bigmac 97kt 13,813]

Delboy gave me this to refurbish for his son

i thought this will not take long lol

until i took it out of the stock the stock is cracked from the inside but not right thru

the screws are the wrong ones

the screw holes need re,threaded the action is a mess(this is what happens when you dont take it out of the stock to dry it off when its been raining )

and as for the barrel just look what the mods grub screw has done

atvbjimmy

[pianoman 3,587]

Bloody hell...

Can you fix this Jimmy?

By the way, how did you get on with your FAC application. Have you got it yet?

Love to you and Nicola. Best regards old friend. 

Simon 

[si brown 8,486]

thats mental.. when del handed it over I thought it looked in reasonable nick!!

look on the bright side though.. it'll keep you out of trouble for a while

[johnbaz 363]

I traded a HW95 for a Theoben Fenman, It looked lovely apart from a bit of scratching of the muzzle end when the moderator was removed, Had it for a while before I noticed a forend stock screw missing!

I removed the stock to find something stuck in the thread of the cylinder, I thought the stock screw had snapped but when I tried drilling it to get the extractor in, It wouldn't touch it!

Turned out someone had tried cleaning the threads with a tap but they snapped it  I cracked out the Dremmel with a slim diamond grinder out, In no time I was through it, Rather than risk damaging the threads used a parellel punch to snap the high carbon remainder in to bits!, I've tried carbon taps before with dire results- HSS all the way, I cleaned the threads out then found a screw and replaced it, All's fine now!!

The flutes of the tap can be seen here..

This is what came out when I cracked it in to bits!, Doesn't seem much!

Cleaned out and a new allen screw cut to size and dogged down tight!

Ready to go!

 

 

John 

[philpot 5,038]

This is exactly what you need at the moment Jimmy, dive into a project my friend.

Phil

[bigmac 97kt 13,813]

Right lads before i strip the stock back

i needed to see how far the split on the inside of the stock went as it was not right thru the stock

so took the lacquer and stain off the end of the stock first and there was no sign of it (that was a good sign)

So set about sanding it back

before

 

[bigmac 97kt 13,813]

During the sanding back

[bigmac 97kt 13,813]

After with stain applied

next is the action

atvbjimmy

[bigmac 97kt 13,813]

Looking at the pics it may have been a fault in the wood

at first i thought it was a barrel flip and it had split the wood

but it looked to me as to strait it was not until i sent si the pics and he say,d it looked like some one had cut it with some thing

that made me look at it in a different way

atvbjimmy

[bigmac 97kt 13,813]

This is what a barrel flip dose

[bigmac 97kt 13,813]

and this is what it looked like once id fixed it

atvbjimmy

[bigmac 97kt 13,813]

5 hours ago, pianoman said:

Bloody hell...

Can you fix this Jimmy?

By the way, how did you get on with your FAC application. Have you got it yet?

Love to you and Nicola. Best regards old friend. 

Simon 

Fix it with my eyes closed Simon lol

No fac im afraid Simon

ill let you know in a pm my old friend

our love back to you and Helen

atvbjimmy

[bigmac 97kt 13,813]

Did that awful mark the grub screw made

filled it in with a chemical putty that once mixed together hardens like steel 

then sanded it back and put som blueing on it needs a little bit more putty on and sanded back smooth

but its getting there lol

atvbjimmy

[bigmac 97kt 13,813]

Done the blueing on the chamber removed all the rust

and applied the blueing im happy with the way it came out

still a little to do to the action

tape and die the new threads

do the barrel again

re,blue the cocking arm

get new screws for the stock

then the action is done and the hard work starts

STRIPPING THE STOCK LOL

atvbjimmy

[David.evans 5,323]

I have to say big fella that your a genius at this stuff

atb mate