Cincinnati Shaper

[dallen]

with the clamps I can stick some thin rubber tube on the tips which will grab the almost invisible fiber without it slipping thru the teeth in the jaws of the clamp.

I don't know about in OZ, but I got 6 of the clamps for tens bucks with free shipping off of evil bay, and you can get all different sizes of them.

[dallen]

Ok been awhile but I'm still here and working on the scope.

I am now the owner of 6 pairs of gold plated medical clamps that I will use to handle the fibers when I try again to setup the cross hairs for the scope.

I have also pretty much finished the scope mounts or anyway just about finished this style of mount.

[mite5255]

Wow mate, they look nice

[dallen]

thanks I think the look good to even if I still have some cleanup to do on the one the elevation mount.

[dallen]

been applying some TLC to this little relic from back in the 60's that I acquired the other day. somebody had been having their way with it and lost a bunch of the little bits that make it work, I've pretty much found the missing pieces now just waiting on the mail lady to show up with them.

[dallen]

well I found out that the barrel on the 22 was no good, it has a bulge in it and a really bad looking spot when you look thru it about 4 inches from the chamber.

So I decided to change the barrel, I had a 22 barrel off of an old Marlin which was just a little to large on the diameter and about 2 inches long, so what I did was turn the extra off of the diameter and left the length as it was then machined the breech end so that it would fit the action and now I have a good barrel that's about 2.5 inches longer then factory.

red arrow marks the bulged spot in the barrel.

[dallen]

worked on the rear sight that I received in the mail today. it has to have a screw in it so adjust the elevation with. So far I've made the screw twice hope that's all I have to.

[dallen]

been working on the nylon 66 again, think I've just about wrapped this one up.

anyway here's what I did today, don't know if I mentioned this or not but the part of the disconnector that acts as the safety broke off.

this little tab that's circled in red is what broke off, and you can't hardly find one for a replacement, they haven't made these rifles since like 1988. Although there is an outfit in Brazil that's making them now but I don't know where a guy could get parts.

anyway here's the photo of the unbroken one. mine snapped in the bend so the safety won't work without it.

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So what I did was take a piece of 1095 steel and milled it down to like .062" thick, then cut out an L shaped piece and trimmed it up, then bent it so the leg would point the center of the receiver and used some mid temp silver solder to stick it onto the disconnector. As you can see in the next photo.

nice thing is that it works like its suppose to after I went back and put the trigger in it correctly, the safety bar now raises the disconnector up and disengages the trigger like it should.

[mite5255]

Your an absolute marvel Dave, you strike a problem and just go ahead and make a new part that takes skill. A machinist mate of mine rebuilds old motorbikes and builds hot rods, he gets parts that most would throw in the bin like guards and other tin wear and other bits and pieces, he works his magic on them and ends up with a damn better then new part, I admire anyone that can do this type of work, they just do it.

[dallen]

I was told by a machinist fellow once long ago that a real machinist is the guy that can take a machine that everyone else say's is unrepairable and fix it.

Same thing goes for things like this, there is a part on EBay the odds of me winning the auction are about like me winning the lottery so if I want to get back the money that I've already throwed at this project I need to be able to fix this. You know people used to fix things, now days they just pitch them into the bin to be hauled off.

Besides the challenge isn't in seeing if you can buy a new part but in seeing if you can fix what you have that's broken.

heck anyone can do what I do, it just takes time and I have plenty of that.