doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com Cant close action: Firing pins in the way

It's sad when you think your the smartest person in the room then discover your knowledge is lacking on a subject ,you project your discomfort with your lack of knowledge by insulting other who do have the training and knowledge you don't.

I suppose that's true. That seems to happen to you often here. Your quickness to swing insults (like The Fuse) are a tell-tale sign of your discomfort.

It should not have to be spelled out in minute detail that there is more than one way to put a gun back on the face or to tighten up loose bolting or a loose frond. Various methods have been discussed right here on this Forum for years, including laser welding, TIG welding, machining new hinge pins, soldering or gluing in thin steel shims... or even using shims made from aluminum pop cans. One of those many methods, and one that has been used for over a hundred years by factory trained gunsmiths and gun assemblers is the judicious use of hammers to peen, upset, or otherwise displace metal.

It should by now be obvious to all but the most thick-headed and brainless morons that a good gunsmith will choose a method that is appropriate to the gun he is working on. The method he chooses should consider the amount of wear or looseness to be taken up, along with the intrinsic value of the gun. To spell it out for fools like the Nutty Professor & Co., it just wouldn't be smart or economically sensible to do the same costly hinge pin replacement and hook TIG welding on a cheap Crescent or Worthington as one might on a Holland, Purdey, or high grade Fox.

I have a pretty good collection of Gunsmithing books, and just about every one has a chapter on the tools required to get started in the trade or hobby. Just about all of them talk about the various types of hammers that are essential to some gun repair jobs. Then they go on to discuss correctly using those hammers.

I don't see here or in the attached video where anyone was advocating any blacksmith type sledge hammer forging work. I don't see anyone suggesting indiscriminately beating on guns like apes with hammers. I don't see where anyone was suggesting that the peening method of tightening up a loose gun was the only way to do it, or the way it should be done on a rare or valuable gun. Unfortunately, the video doesn't spell out the obvious in detail that even a complete idiot would comprehend.

What I do see once again is the spoiled man-child, the Nutty Professor, once again pretending to be an expert, and hoping to keep his childish rant going on forever, even as mc attempts to quit:


Funny thing is, here he wants to be as relentless as a Pit Bulldog... but he ran away like a little girl from Ted's questions about how he blew up a nice low number 1903 Springfield (Rock Island manufacture), and cannot admit that it was his fault due to a careless reloading error. I wonder how Brad Eden would react if he acted this way over on the Upland Journal forum, which he says is so much better than DoubleGunShop??? What this place needs is more Moderation.

side show bob. Good one. I like the cut of your serpents. Lol

Where do you guys find the time and energy for this?