Stuff you have made today

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

That’s why you buy your undies from C&A

Shop from the past there. They vanished a good few years ago.

 

[stuvy]

Will tell you the abbreviation when I see you

 

[Jim Davey]

104A pound street

 

[ronan]

I finally got around to doing something with the fathers old .22 rifle. Its been sat at the back of the cabinet in a sorry state for years. The fore sight ramp had been knocked off at one point, but i had it, so decided to solder it back on.

I tinned both barrel and sight and smeared plenty of flux on both. The usual professional way to hold things in place for soldering is soft iron wire, of which i had none. So i used a toolmakers clamp and a small level to make sure it was in line with the rear.

As i was at it, i moved the sight ramp back about 1/2" or so. When i had the soldering finished and cleaned up. I put the whole thing in the lathe and screwcut the end of the barrel 1/2"unf. I was at a funeral years ago when an old boy came up to me and asked was i still into shooting, when i said yes he handed me a little box. I opened it later and found it was an old Parker Hale steel moderator. Never used it, so why not now ?

Anyway the threading went well, hardest part was holding the tapered barrel in the four jaw chuck and supporting the other end, i used a plastic bush that was a tight fit around the action and in the lathe spindle and some copper pipe in the chuck.

Took the job out of the lathe and put it back together and fired it into a bucket of sand to see the bullets were not striking the baffles of the mod. It was fine.

Next job is to machine up the fore sight element and make one for the rear sight too. I'll finish with blacking it, when i get a chance to fabricate a hot water tank at the weekend.

 

[Jim Davey]

Will tell you the abbreviation when I see you

It’s so Essex girls don’t get their knickers on back to front

 

[Woody.v8]

It’s so Essex girls don’t get their knickers on back to front

Knickers?

 

[Pete.]

104A pound street

That's where the dog lives

 

[Lazurus]

And have the mod added to your ticket?

 

[fizzy]

And have the mod added to your ticket?

He lives in Ireland so different rules I expect.

 

[ronan]

Did you re crown the barrel?

No need really, its perfect, i reckon the rifle never fired a thousand rounds since it was made in 53.

 

[ronan]

And have the mod added to your ticket?

We don't have a single licence as you do in the UK, each firearm has its own separate licence. But yes its added.

 

[brightspark]

And have the mod added to your ticket?

its a strange one. you can buy the moderator to fit on your air rifle no licence put it on the rimfire and as you say it needs adding but if you sell the gun you cant just remove the mod and use it on something else

 

[northwest]

its a strange one. you can buy the moderator to fit on your air rifle no licence put it on the rimfire and as you say it needs adding but if you sell the gun you cant just remove the mod and use it on something else

Well actually you can. If you sell the rifle and not the moderator, the moderator (silencer) remains on your ticket. If you buy another rifle you can just use it on that. There is nothing written in the HOG that says you cannot, You can even use your .30 cal moderator on your .22 rimmy or any permutation you come up with. As long as the threads or bushing fits and the hole is big enough to allow the passage of the bullet.

 

[brightspark]

yes you can keep it and sell the rifle but if you give up your licence you cant just take it off and keep it even though you can buy them for air rifles

 

[Farside]

Finally got around to tackling an annoying oil filter leak on the pre-Divvy XJ900.
Turned out to be the large O-ring at the back of the cooler take-off block, which had never been off since it left the factory. As a result, the O-ring was rock-hard and weeping. Took the opportunity to suss out why the XJ600S bits I bought to convert it to a spin-on filter wouldn't fit nicely, and it turned out just need a slight bit of butchery with a slicer, reducing the big internal hollow bolt head by about 3mm, to allow the converter plate to sit on it.
All finished and holding oil nicely...

 

[selectedgrub]

 

[sardine]

Full rebuild of a JCB dumper yesterday , big job involving some epoxy and a clamp. She's running fine now.

 

[Dieselman 63]

Full rebuild of a JCB dumper yesterday , big job involving some epoxy and a clamp. She's running fine now.

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Engine swap from a little tikes car?

 

[Nick DV]

104A pound street

Oh dear Jim, you may have given the game away