Post by twomoons on Oct 26, 2012 15:36:41 GMT -5
Oh Boy can I ever pick em. Bounce brought me a broken muzzleloader, seems he was hunting big foot, of big foot was hunting food, and bigfoot stepped on his gun and broke off the hammer... well really the tumbler broke off at the shank.
So I disassemble the lock and it's a german lock with a 6 sided tumbler??? The whole lock is little parts like a Swiss watch and the tumbler itself is 5 pieces, a body, a pivot, a pivot pin a removable bearing for the tumbler plate and the tumbler scre which is froze in the little remaining piece of the tumbler shaft that bigfoot crushed.
I weld on a new shaft and go to work it down and the tumbler was case hardened and the welding has drawn case into the new shaft and a file wont cut it. I anneal and a file still wont cut it so with miniture grinding wheels I shape the new tumbler shaft and fit the hammer. Then I test fire and the end of the old hammer breaks off, so I weld on a new hammer nose and reshape that. Then I try and drill a hole for the hammer screw... remember the case, well carbide drill gets the job done and I only ruin 2 miniture metric bits tapping the hole.
Now iit's all together and working again and i need to find a place to hide it in case bigfoot comes over here!
Now I have to order parts to rebuild a rifle for another bigfoot DD. This one will be fun though!
So I disassemble the lock and it's a german lock with a 6 sided tumbler??? The whole lock is little parts like a Swiss watch and the tumbler itself is 5 pieces, a body, a pivot, a pivot pin a removable bearing for the tumbler plate and the tumbler scre which is froze in the little remaining piece of the tumbler shaft that bigfoot crushed.
I weld on a new shaft and go to work it down and the tumbler was case hardened and the welding has drawn case into the new shaft and a file wont cut it. I anneal and a file still wont cut it so with miniture grinding wheels I shape the new tumbler shaft and fit the hammer. Then I test fire and the end of the old hammer breaks off, so I weld on a new hammer nose and reshape that. Then I try and drill a hole for the hammer screw... remember the case, well carbide drill gets the job done and I only ruin 2 miniture metric bits tapping the hole.
Now iit's all together and working again and i need to find a place to hide it in case bigfoot comes over here!
Now I have to order parts to rebuild a rifle for another bigfoot DD. This one will be fun though!
