Nial:
Pins seldom wear because they are harder than the soft steel barrel hooks, unless the gun is full of dirt loaded grease or mis-use, but extra screw in pins with shoulders were supplied with some guns a long time ago........with your experience you surely know there were so many problems trying to fit these pins by shade tree smiths and non-mechanical gun owners, with little things like rust, removing nice engraved covers etc..........and surely you know that an oversize thru pin won't fit in an exact machined thru hole......(long cross side to side pins).....?.........After all, we don't need to know very much, thank heavens, because we have you here to tell us everything..............
**See the thread "Welding Up Hook On Barrels"....9-20-08.....this board.....for those of you that are 'really' interested......comments from smiths, welders, how they do it in Italy, England and in the trade everywhere, check it out..........
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**"Re-jointing actions by Ken Eversull".....7-21-09......this board.............
Best,
