It’s Holding Pressure. Pressure Tube, Intake Valve, Firing Valve all working. Yay. Always fun to fill and bring the parts to life. A long way from bar stock.



Let’s check the list .....

Front Barrel Clamp. Soon.
Slide Breech Cover ... gotta finish the cosmetics.

Oh!!! Ya think we’ll need a STOCK? WOOD!!! You bet. Let the Chips Fall where they may!!! Let’s pick out s tree!!!!

Thanks for reading!!!

Hey ...don’t forget all those keys that came with your computer.... Airgun Smiths are People too. Say Hi!!!

Best to All,
Gary

Dang and all I did was sit around all weekend.
Congrats your cooking right thru them green dots and dashes. Hey too bad I'm busy next week or I'd help you sand ! NOT
I can't believe nobody has layed claim to a CHANCE at owning the fine airgun yet . I've been always looking at auction sights big and small and there is not too many Barnes up for sale. I'm just saying

Thanks
Kurt

Gary,

Looks like you are making really good progress. The bluing looks great. Be a nice contrast with the polished aluminum.

I bet you have the wood all picked out for this project already?

Thanks for sharing the progress!

Pedro

Hi Pedro,

Thk you for stopping. And for commenting.

I haven’t yet seen which blank will best serve. I’ll do that very soon

I was finishing a triple bullet casting mold today. Three unique new slugs for the 50 Caliber stable. I’ll be anxious to see them fly.

In drilling a hole for threading the Sprue plate pivot, the pilot bit galled, froze, and snapped below surface. Rare enough anymore but always a mess. I was setting up the previous mold so I could just turn the mold over in my hand for double end casting. Etc, etc. It doesn’t matter but I didn’t want a flaw in the mold even though it’s a house mold.

That length of 3/32” bit had to come out. And so; I rather quickly made a core drill .... tempered it ... drilled around the submerged drill bit shaft. When I was alllllmost there, the swarf caught, jerked everything, broke the core drill (expected) and I hit the OFF switch.



The broken off 3/32” commercial drill bit. The custom core drill (broken). The Swarf and fragments from the core drill. The hole now ready drill to final size and thread. A neat finished job on the blocks that I already had about two days into. You never can plan the time a series of steps will take ... can you Pedro? But you can know the end quality.

Gary



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