I was commenting on the sheer fallacy of relining pits in gun barrels with epoxy... That's a far cry from machining out pits in landing gear and then chrome plating.
I commented on the 2020 fantasy of repairing a pitted shotgun bore when that idea was posted. Essentially, I said it was a totally impractical fantasy, and that no epoxy we have would withstand the combination of pressure and the intense heat of powder burning, along with the simultaneous friction of the payload being propelled down the bore. I felt it was likely the epoxy repair would fail very quickly, and if it delaminated, it could create a bore obstruction..
Ghostwriter said at the time he was going to try it anyway. We're still waiting on the results.
Like Ted says, not everything can or should be fixed. It was a silly idea. But not nearly as silly as Princess Stevie's idea that those "holes" in the breech face just above the water table was an old method of deactivating a gun.
I am also highly skeptical about Princess Stevie's role in reactivation of the supposedly deactivated Gibbs single shot he/she posted about. Among other work, he/she claimed to have TIG welded a hole in the chamber.
But a few years back Princess Stevie told us in the Custom Rifle forum that she sent out a Mauser action to have someone who actually knew how to TIG weld build up the receiver to convert it into a square bridge Mauser.
I do my own TIG welding. And I wasn't dumb enough to just jump to some asinine conclusion in that other Thread. I realized we needed additional information or pictures to determine the purpose of the holes in that shotgun breech face. Someone who claims to be a gunsmith should have followed my lead instead of sticking his/her neck out to act like just another internet know-it-all. Instead, she demonstrated profound ignorance far worse than Ed's idea of soldering a separated barrel lump. But when you farm out work to other real gunsmiths, I guess you can take credit for the things they did too, and attempt to run away from your previous stupidity..
Another case of having folks just think you're stupid, or choosing to post your thoughts and remove all doubt.
