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Gil, I think bill is refering to the drift pin being hard not the TIG filler wire. I would never use anything but a mild steel filler wire to weld a spot like that. I have never welded any barrel with anything but. If I were going to fill that spot I would rather not do any hammering or dressing prior to the weld. That raised dent will help keep the weld from flowing towards the engraving. I would start from the breach face and let that lump catch the over flow of the puddle. You would have to be on and off that weld real fast not to nick the engraving. If welding is attempted you have to be prepared for the possibility that you will be repairing the engraving as it is a delicate weld repair.

Bill G.

Bill, thanks for the input
Steven Bertram whom I contacted said that you would be the only one to do this, then it would involve some dressing/touch up and fitting.........that is alot of respect for you I would say.

Gil,
I believe that Bill was advising to use a hardened 'punch' to knock down the dent. Highly polished, to avoid bruising the surrounding area.A little (lot of?)care should be able to practically do an invisible repair.

I'm in the stay away from David Yale group. He ruined a set of Fox barrels for me and wouldn't stand behind his work. This lesson I learned the hard way and now I don't want to see others go down the same path.

This looks like a fairly simple fix that an experienced smith could take care of.

You might try Steve Bertram in Boulder 303-938-1996. He's a great guy that I'm sure could take care of this for you. Steve posts here as "SKB" and may chime in on your repair himself. If the seller would be willing to pay for the repair, I'd just get it done and not worry about the UPS hassles.

One consideration here on TIG- no matter the welding amperage, nor the parent metal-you stand a good chance of putting the barrel at the breech "out of round" and heat transfers always to an open or thinner area of the mass- so if the soldered top and bottom barrel ribs fall into that classification, the heat input from a TIG (steel 2% Thoria electrode ground to a blunted tip)electrode might do that. I am assuming the barrels were packed in a seperate section from the receiver-stock group, so that the dent is only on the barrel breech face? UPS will "nit-pick" every damn claim they can, and I wish you mucho bueno suerte here in dealing with them. One thing you might have going for you is that your "damaged" Arrietta is still a production gun, so the price of a new fitted set of barrels as well as the selling price is fairly well known- as opposed to the value on a set of, let's say here, "Roadrunner" steel barrels for your uncle's AHE 20 bore Parker..