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broke the swivel on my Boswell Pigeon gun and was hoping someone might have a rough part that only needed fitting?
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I just whittle them out from tool steel bar stock, other than screws, swivels are by far the easiest lock part to make.
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where would I get tool steel bar stock. I was planning on using an old drill shaft.
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broke the swivel on my Boswell Pigeon gun and was hoping someone might have a rough part that only needed fitting? When you say "swivel", what part do you mean? ...I have Boswell that looks like a pigeon gun showing up tomorrow, I can look at it for ideas.
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The swivel connects the tumbler to the mainspring in a sidelock action.
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the swivel is a tiny piece that connects the mainspring to the hammer.
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Dixie gunworks calls it a stirrup, but their size is a little off.
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I am blacksmithing a piece of spring steel, heating and hammering to change the dimensions, so I can use it to fashion the swivel.
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Do not use a drill shaft because they are usually high speed steel a little harder to get the temper right, if you can find a carbon steel drill that would be good. Using Silver steel rod sold in many sizes is probably the best for this part, it is sold in its soft state so easy to file and temper, and if my memory is working on your side of the pond it is called drill rod. Carbon steel for making small parts can be obtained from old files pieces of re bar and for flat springs those disposable panel saws for wood work well so look around there are lots of quality steel found in old tools. The one thing I will say about re purposing carbon steel is that you will have to heat soften it before you can work on it then re harden it to the correct temper but that is not rocket science plenty of how to do it on the internet.
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