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    Now just moving right along there I have converted my long suffering lathe to a rifling machine. Hand cutting six groves .010" thou deep to give at bore size of .470" and a rifling twist of 1-48", the standed for muzzle loaders. Here you can see my improved set up, well sort of. There`s no such thing as" Can't do it".
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Size:  615.0 KB, Rifling head ready to go, rifling register pin at #1.
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Size:  582.9 KB, The sine bar that drives the rifling head at the back of the lathe, low down for slow twist.
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    Good luck.
    Turning there was a gunsmith in the north island that had some a couple of years back.
    I wanted a 17 can for a possible wsm but he reckoned they weren't any good for that.
    I'll have to dig through the memory banks

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    @akaroa1 had a dig through the emails and you are right.
    It was Dean Maisey but it was a 17 liner and the last one he had. He reckoned they weren't exported out of the US anymore.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Finnwolf View Post
    Excellent work gundoc!!

    Watch when you mount the diff that you make an allowance for the fact that the center bolt of the rear springs won’t have the dif in the right location if you mount it in the traditional manner otherwise your dif will be too far to the rear. ( or front, it’s been a decade or two si ce I last looked a. Chev torque-tube drive line!)
    To get an idea have a look at the factory pivot point on the dif.

    And don’t cut the mounts off the original dif and weld them onto the new dif, they’re designed to operate with a torque-tube.
    The current original rear end is a torque tube but I am replacing it with a Chevy 10 bolt and an open driveshaft, a TH350 3-speed auto and the rebuilt '72 Chevy 250 inline 6. The entire original running gear from engine to wheels is coming out.
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    Quote Originally Posted by small_caliber View Post
    Where did you get the low wall takedown from??
    Is it a coil spring model??
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    It's been a long search to find one

    All the 1885 takedowns are coil spring.

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    Quote Originally Posted by small_caliber View Post
    Didn't realise all the takedowns were coil sprung.

    It took me quite a search to find a Lowall action myself.
    @small_caliber
    Here is an 1885 I did 2 winters ago from a bare low wall action only

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    And a high wall that I'm doing this winter from a total wreck.
    Still have to make new firing pin and re bore the original #3 Barrel
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    And this afternoon I burgled a 6x Malcolm scope off my Stevens 44 1/2
    Found some mounting blocks and drilled and taped them on to the 1885 takedown .25 RF
    Just wanted to see what it would be like with a decent vintage scope on board.
    It's sweet

    Now i just need to find a donor barrel to turn a liner out of and I can rip into that bore
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    Shit there’s some clever buggers on here , some good kiwi inginuity going on , I’m reading The book on Burt Munro ( worlds fastest Indian ) at the moment , what he made in his shed was incredible especially considering the gear he had

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    By chance any one know of a Stephens favourite .22 butt stock?
    Got one at home that its previous owner tried to club a possum with bad results.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ghosts View Post
    By chance any one know of a Stephens favourite .22 butt stock?
    Got one at home that its previous owner tried to club a possum with bad results.
    @ghosts give me a reminder after LEVEL 4 and I might be able to dig one up from outside my bubble

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    That's awesum @akaroa . Will do.

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    Easter weekend seemed like a good time to redo the bottom metal on the EM-332... Here's a pic. Name:  IMG20200414161912.jpg
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Size:  2.11 MB I don't have many toys to play with, so the EM is getting a fair amount of attention!

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    I started a new butt stock for my Stevens 44 1/2
    Picked out a particularly gnarly piece of walnut

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    Spent a few hours inletting the tangs and the fiddly but that goes inside the receiver shoulder
    Lots of smoke and fit and smoke and fit
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    Then I fitted the reproduction steel shotgun butt plate
    And got into a lot of stock removal.
    The hardest piece of walnut I have worked on for ages.

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    Still a hell of a lot to remove to get this into shape.
    And it's going to be a bitch to sand

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    @akaroa1 - she's a beauty!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bol Tackshin View Post
    @akaroa1 - she's a beauty!
    It looks and feels like a club at the moment but another half day on it and it will be getting into shape

    It's been a long slow project getting that vintage rifle back into shooting condition

    But another wreck saved

 

 

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