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Gunman,
Usually, the holes get shallow when it is ground/filed/polished to flush out with the face.BTY this is why they should be side by side and not top and bottom, otherwise one would be wiped out.

Dewey-
You certainly are not one of those that don't do anything.I am always amazed at the quality of your work.
Mike

Hoof, funny you mention the Big Brown truck. I sent nine guns out today for loving repairs, I hope. I have several others that I need to pack up and get on the mend. Wood work I can deal with quite well but metal or mechanical work is something that I am no longer going to even think about. Time is too short to learn what I still don't know and I have too many guns left to repair before I am gone.

My new goal is to get all of my project guns into at least decent shooting condition before I am dead. To that end I am sending them out to have repairs completed. One too far gone will be left behind and perhaps parted out. When the first batch gets back I am either going to sell them or more likely give them away others to enjoy. My sons have more double guns than they need already and will pick over the gun room when I am gone. But if I can start others, other than my own sons, down the road of doubles by giving them a decent shooter perhaps these old guns will have use for fifty years after I am gone. That is a legacy that I like.

Jon;
You cant save the world....they are all destined for remelt sooner or later... some people just have real problems junking out worn out guns...

My understanding is that the striker discs do not enter the breech face on the perpendicular, but at a downward sloping angle. If so, that must add some serious complications to making one from scratch. How do you match the angle? And doesn't that then affect the threading?

Dewey, great post!

Thanks for sharing your expertise!

JC

You're correct that the striker discs enter the breechface at angles both downward and outward.
This has no effect upon the threads or anything else. The new part is made in the lathe as usual and then cut off and filed flush to the breechface after being screwed in.
Everything is concentric to the firing pin hole centerline, there are no angles to match.

This posting might just prevent a similar monkey f--k by somebody else....and it's very interesting to see.

Thanks!

Dewey - can you give us an idea of what this repair cost vs. what it should have cost if done correctly from the start?

I've often wondered how they screw out. Now I know! One call or E mail could have prevented that from happening . People amaze me.

Very good post!

Mr. Vicknair,

I join the others in thanking you both for your wonderful work in making an old gun right, and for taking the time to share your work with us. You're a true craftsman in every sense of the word, and it's a pleasure to view your work.

As a rank amateur, I can't help but wonder - how did you determine where to locate the drive-pin and vent holes? Everything lines up perfectly!