an as for repairin dim packers or any udder double gon havin a loose or disconnected breech block...
1. pack the barrels with Brownells heat sink paste, to protect whatever is holding the barrels together...
2. tin the barrels and breech block with lead/tin solder...
3. clamp it...
4. heat with propane torch? and solder it awl back together...
5. if this works, re blue barrels to make it look good...
6. if this don't work, try the opposite...
space age epoxy, that only works when frozen...
That may actually be the most useless post I have ever read. "If this don't work".
Did you get that from Master Gunsmith Ed Lander?
Here's yet another Post I made a couple days ago that didn't get Posted. I don't know if it was censored or if it was lost in cyberspace. I suppose the server could have crashed when I sent it because it was overwhelmed with all of DimmyW's recent Posts. It sure didn't crash due to a bunch of Parker Repros with failed barrel lumps being uploaded.
But anyhow Stan, I don't think Ed's recommendation of repairing this Parker Repro is the most useless Post. Soldering a barrel lump back on with tin/lead solder would not be my choice for this repair. But 67/33 eutectic tin/lead solder has a tensile strength of around 8000 lbs./sq. in. So it might actually hold for a little while even though that isn't near as strong as a good braze joint. Someone here used to maintain that a shotgun breech could be held closed by hand during firing without any bolting. Not sure I'd want to test that either. I don't know of any space age epoxy that only works when frozen, but I recall a Thread from Ghostrider where he suggested repairing badly pitted barrels by lining them with epoxy. I think that was far worse an idea than Ed's.
But when it comes to "Most Useless Post Ever", I'd bet both ClapperZapper and Princess Stevie are saying, "Hold my Beer!"
Just look at their recent Posts in Woodreaux's "Breech Face Question" Thread. Princess Stevie looked at it and said this:
That may be an older method of deactivating a gun, I'm not sure, but that is what I think it is. I have seen deactivated guns(and repaired one) that were drilled through the chamber as a method of deactivation.
Can you believe that someone who claims to be a real gunsmith actually saw those holes as an older method of deactivating a gun?
And ClapperZapper looked at the same gun that obviously did not ever have any external hammers or any sign of filling in grooves or channels for a Pinfire pin, and he said this:
Converted pinfire.
There are lots of old guns that have that vertical breech weld.
One of the shotgun magazines did an article about the guns that were converted
When regular commercial prepared cartridge just came along, there were a great number of wonderful guns that received an upgrade.
At least that’s what I think it is.
