Now the rest of this ejector work is the kind of thing that I think (after much experience) put people like my friend Ted off messing around with vintage guns. I'm not there yet. LOL

So as Claudio was inspecting the rest of the ejector system, other issues that needed to be addressed with this kind of restoration became apparent. I'm sure some was caused by the use of the gun after the rod was broken, some by other ways and some just by age and normal wear and tear.

First the ejector body (is that the correct term?) needed some attention. Looking closely, a number of stress cracks were discovered. Additionally Claudio felt the whole unit had been hardeded to the point of being a tad brittle. So some judicious spot annealing was done.





A little attention again with the laser welder and voila!


The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia