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Good to meet up, Roland.
Yup, compak is... interesting ...
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Testing has happened.
Nothing broke.
Nothing failed.
Feeding CompX was slightly better.
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Gun now on hold for Mr Beaky.
...and collected
And a charming old girl she is too.
Now to start reloading...
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A friend and I used to do this with Greener GPs on the grouse butts at our local ground, where we would keep going at on-report birds until you missed one. By far the hardest bit was reloading fast enough whilst howling with laughter at the ridiculousness of it. The barrels quickly became far too hot to touch, to the extent that in shooting it we partially heat-reblued a tatty one that was largely in the white on the barrel and with a fair bit of rust he had picked up for a mate and which needed 'testing'.
The record stands at 34. Brilliant fun.
This sounds like gloriously silly fun
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pation!
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Ooh... Ooooh
You have pm
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Butane torch, 1" Bullfinch head. The 1/2" head didn't get the heat in quick enough, and I didn't even consider using the 2" monster.
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I still have a couple of Marksman bows - a 1974 Olympic TS4, and one of the original Portland take-downs with the rosewood riser, before they went all metallic
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New thread set up, as there is more than my original post in the first thread...
Ok, the Durafix kit turned up, testing was done, workshop time has happened.
Second set of new ears, cast in place. I enlarged the original jokes I had drilled, and put in a pair of aluminium pegs (interference fit), then used the ali braze to build up the ears using the pegs as the skeleton.
I then filed down to fit, keeping the ears broad for strength.
The tricky bit was getting the trigger block to sit flush with the bottom of the action body - if it sits too deep, the bolt carrier jams on the top. If it sits too shallow, everything rattles, and jams.
This bit was interesting
There was noticeable damage to the top of the trigger block at the front left corner, next to the slot where the action lock bar sits.
I suspect this was caused by the bolt carrier, due to the trigger block moving up and down - I patched this with the Durafix as well, and filed back to the original profile.
You might also notice the shiny end of the action locking lever, which has been built up with a dab of weld, because that was also damaged, by the same cause - the movement of the trigger block was reducing the engagement of the action lock, causing it to wear on one side, and bite into the trigger block beside the action lever slot.
I discovered that Numrich in the US have quite a few spares for these guns: a new trigger mech complete for $124? A bit steep, that, but a new action lock assembly is only about $15, so I thought, "Why not?"
The answer was, of course, because delivery is extortionate! $15 for the part, $42.50 shipping, plus taxes on top. For that money, I can make a new one if necessary!
As it turned out, it was fairly easy to build the lever tip back to it's original profile, helped by the photos" the Numrich listing (see? It was useful after all
)I did a lot more polishing after this photo, but forgot to take any more photos until I had finished putting it all together.
Now all reassembled, and waiting for next weekend, when I can shoot it and see if this repair holds up. (Fingers crossed!)
The action is now crisp and solid, with no slop when the bolt is closed, and it hasn't lost that lovely slick feeling to the slide.
Next job will be to strip out the mag tube for cleaning and polishing out.
Due to the number of times I have done it,I can now strip the trigger mechanism down to its component parts in less than 5 minutes...
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New thread set up, as there is more than my original post in the first thread...
Ok, the Durafix kit turned up, testing was done, workshop time has happened.
Second set of new ears, cast in place.
There was noticeable damage to the top of the trigger block at the front left corner, next to the slot where the action lock bar sits.
I suspect this was caused by the bolt carrier, due to the trigger block moving up and down - I patched this with the Durafix as well, and filed back to the original profile.
You might also notice the shiny end of the action locking lever, which has been built up with a dab of weld, because that was also damaged, by the same cause - the movement of the trigger block was reducing the engagement of the action lock, causing it to wear on one side, and bite into the trigger block beside the action lever slot.
I discovered that Numrich in the US have quite a few spares for these guns: a new trigger mech complete for $124? A bit steep, that, but a new action lock assembly is only about $15, so I thought, "Why not?"
The answer was, of course, because delivery is extortionate! $15 for the part, $42.50 shipping, plus taxes on top. For that money, I can make a new one if necessary!
As it turned out, it was fairly easy to build the lever tip back to it's original profile, helped by the photos" the Numrich listing (see? It was useful after all
)I did a lot more polishing after this photo, but forgot to take any more photos until I had finished putting it all together.
Now all reassembled, and waiting for next weekend, when I can shoot it and see if this repair holds up. (Fingers crossed!)
The action is now crisp and solid, with no slop when the bolt is closed, and it hasn't lost that lovely slick feeling to the slide.
Next job will be to strip out the mag tube for cleaning and polishing out.
Due to the number of times I have done it,I can now strip the trigger mechanism down to its component parts in less than 5 minutes...
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I have used the 28g CompX in all my guns, nice to shoot, seem to break clays well enough (better than me!), and they cycle the MP153 ok with the gas valve closed down a bit.
The 21g are lovely to shoot in my sbs and the Higgins, although they don't feed that well in the pump.
Both are very clean burning, on a par with the Fiocchis I usually use. Lovely cartridges
Shame the Higgins doesn't like them - having just bought a thousand... :(
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Ok, the Durafix kit turned up, testing was done, workshop time has happened.
Second set of new ears, cast in place.
I also repaired some damage to the top of the trigger block, caused by the bolt carrier, due to the trigger block moving up and down.
You might also notice the shiny end of the action locking lever, which has been built up with a dab of weld, because that was also damaged, by the same cause - the movement of the trigger block was reducing the engagement of the action lock, causing it to wear on one side, and bite into the trigger block beside the action lever slot.
I did a lot more polishing after this photo, but forgot to take any more photos until I had finished putting it all together.
Now all reassembled, and waiting for next weekend, when I can shoot it and see if this repair holds up. (Fingers crossed!)
I can now strip the trigger mechanism down to its component parts in less than 5 minutes, due to the amount of practice I have had...
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Would you be prepared to sell me one? Really like it.
Yhpm
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Note where is that "looking over glasses" emoji?
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The 16 bore is the TOZ63 - TOZ66 is the 12 bore.
Bruno22rf has one of the limited edition 16s, with the nice woodwork and engraving, IIRC.
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Baikal MP 153 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt1QV3DFUrQ check out this link
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You wait for ages, then two come along at once...
The trifold, shown with the bifold for comparison.
Not entirely finished - a couple of edges need tidying up and having the gum trag treatment, but I'm fairly happy with the way it has turned out.
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You got off light then. But don't forget, At the going down of the sun she will remember. Watch out for the slug in the salad.
Could be worse...
It could be half a slug!
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Thanks, Mel
It's real goatskin too
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Yes, the bow should be that shape.
It's a Marksman Forest Ranger, 63" length, 30 lb draw weight at 26" draw length.
Marksman don't exist any more, but their designer/bowyer Keith Gascoigne now runs KG Archery, and might be able to give you more info.
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+1, would you consider making another? I like a simple bi-fold and what you have created would suit me just fine
This one may be available once I've finished the trifold - otherwise, yes, happy to make another one
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Yes I appreciate that...I was going to Type You too Brutus
But I thought someone would correct me to You To Brute, which would also have been wrong when it should have been et tū, Brūte
In English, it would be "You too, Brutus?", because the verb case endings don't change in this instance.
Aha! Just discovered that I can, in fact, produce the right characters for "et tū, Brūte?" on my phone. Every day is a school day...
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Following a recent post about case trimming -
It's "et tu, Brute?"
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Mmmmmmmm....
Just saw this in the news
in Off Topic
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Saw this in this morning's Metro.
Except they referred to it as an "antique-style weapon"...