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I spent a snowbound day in the shop renovating an old 1892 Winchesre in 38-40
A few new parts, a barrel reline, all new screws and a forearm repair. Wasn’t feeding or ejecting when I started…….Now it runs beautifully!
Can’t wait to take it out to the range and shoot it!
I wrote a little article with pictures on my web site.
Hope you enjoy it!
Roy,
Thanks for a wonderful article on your website.
It’s impossible to stop reading the ‘Back Fron the Dead’ story until it ends!
I just wish my father, a master machinist, was still with us so that I could share your writeup with him.
Now I, too, seee why gunsmiths charge so much.
Don
rbertalotto I’m curious. With the damaged barrel threads would it have been possible to turn off the original threads. Then rethread the resulting smaller diameter. And then create a collar threaded inside and out to bridge the gap between the original receiver threads and the new barrel threads? Even if you had to do the same thing with the receiver by reaming it out and rethreading it. The collar being able to be made to bridge this gap.
If that’s not to confusing. You could once it was threaded on hard silver solder the collar on to the barrel.
The idea here would have been to retain the original barrel and magazine length.
I’m not a gunsmith but spent 14 years as a custom knifemaker so I have some experience machining things and own a lathe and mill. SO I do know what additional work it would be to do it this way.
Just curious
I would think that once you put a liner in it, you’ve you won’t have any real metal left to bush and thread.
Think a simpler option would be to get a Green Mountain tapered octagon barrel, they have them in the correct size/taper for the 73s and 92s, run about $150.
I used to use them for the cowboy action guys that wanted a good shooting barrel. Button rifled so not quite correct for a restoration, but they were very accurate.
Think a simpler option would be to get a Green Mountain tapered octagon barrel
But you would lose all the barrel markings…..
I see the point about how much meat there would be left once the liner was installed. I’m not familiar with the physical sizes of the parts involved. It was just an idea I threw out there.
But you would lose all the barrel markings…..[/quote]
Send it to me or Turnbull and have the markings rolled on. 🙂
Certainly being a Gunsmith is very demanding work and generally not monetarily rewarding for effort involved , thats why it is a dying art and increasingly harder to find one. I did dream of gunsmithing as a kid, and instead became a Tool & Diemaker , in a good era with decent wage , but the best advantage (and really the only thing I miss about the job ) was the opportunity to squeeze in all my own gunsmithing at work with fabulous equipment at my disposal
Send it to me or Turnbull and have the markings rolled on.
Mike, I’m going to remember this for next time! I didn’t know this was available from anyone but Turnbull
Mike Hunter said
But you would lose all the barrel markings…..
Send it to me or Turnbull and have the markings rolled on. :)[/quote]
Mike, Just how close to original can you get those markings to look? I followed Roys project on a couple other forms and watched all his work so he could preserve his markings. Now you have me wondering which might be a better way to go.
Iowa
I have a lot of the markings for the Winchester lever rifles: 1866 thru 1894, to include some for the 1890 and 1885. These are roll dies and stamps same as Winchester originally used. Patterns were made from original barrels or original Winchester drawings, and in some cases original Winchester stamps.
V/R
Mike
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