Hi
I'm not sure if this would even qualify as 'Gunsmithing' :-:p
Anyhow, I bought this poor old Mk1 BSA Airsporter for next to nothing from a halfwit!!
He'd 'repaired' a break in the stock but had glued it with something like tile grout or adhesive, Whilst he was telling me about it he cocked it and then dry fired it which isn't recomended for spring powered airguns, the resulting thump of the unhindered piston made his stock repair let go! It actually saved me the job of possible making the stock even worse! (If that was possible!!)
The action had gone rusty then some bright spark painted over it with black gloss paint :( I had to clean almost every bit of the steel on the slack part of a 30"x1" belt sander, I then reblued it with Ballistol Klever blue, The action looked beautiful after I carded off the residue but after about three months of not even touching it, The blued finish had turned grey :C
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I still need to make an oversized round nut on my lathe to fit in the stock as the last owner had put a square nut in that resembled a roofing nut and it wore in to the wood so the factory part won't work any more :((
I made the filler from the dust that I saved whilst rubbing the stock down, I mixed it to a stodgy paste with PVA glue, I also made a piston head of steel bar and fitted an O-Ring as the leather parachute seal was kaput!!
I planed a bit of pine to fit inside the stock to the correct gap to stop it collapsing in when I lashed the two parts after glueing, 24 hours later I made two 7mm walnut dowels (Should have used beech as the colour would have been a better match!) After drilling two 7mm holes in the two parts of the stock that overlapped I then glued them in, another 24 hours later I sanded them down, I later protected the stock using Tung based oil hand rubbed in :2tsup:
BTW, I ran a Dremel cutting disc around the joints so that I could get the filler well in :wink:
PS, Sorry about the order of the pics, I tried posting them in order but they seem to have changed round in the uploading process :doh:
EDIT- I put the pics in the order that I think I posted them in..
Cheers, John :)