Interesting, sure, but not really revelant when it comes to Colt percussion revolvers.
Making a Rifled Barrel without Machine Tools
Hi Guys,
Have a look at this "YouTube" video. Are you good at DIY?
Kind regards,
ALSS.https://archive.org/details/youtube-D43ZeYu9dnM
Have a look at this "YouTube" video. Are you good at DIY?
Kind regards,
ALSS.https://archive.org/details/youtube-D43ZeYu9dnM
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Actually it is relevant!! I have for years been wanting to make a few (3 or 4 up to maybe a dozen) 1851 Navy Colt copies entirely by myself, including rifling the barrel. I am open to any and all methods to accomplish this and would love to see this video but it won't load for me for some reason.
Been saving and buying various tool steels for a few years to start my project when I retired (which I did summer 2016). While I plan on using machine tools it is amazing to see in the books out there on how the old timers did it, and did it well, using wooden frames and wooden indexing fixtures. My stumbling block is obtaining iron castings for the frame as I cringe at having to machine this part entirely from bar stock, but will do it if I have to. If that is the case I will probably only make one.
Been saving and buying various tool steels for a few years to start my project when I retired (which I did summer 2016). While I plan on using machine tools it is amazing to see in the books out there on how the old timers did it, and did it well, using wooden frames and wooden indexing fixtures. My stumbling block is obtaining iron castings for the frame as I cringe at having to machine this part entirely from bar stock, but will do it if I have to. If that is the case I will probably only make one.
Here in the UK they are repairing the “Iron Bridge” in Shropshire that was built in the 1750's or there a bouts and there is a foundry that they can get the wrought iron from. A recent start up to produce wrought iron, I think the only one in the UK. It’s like rocking horse SH12, very scarce to obtain. Try the net for obtaining wrought iron or you will have to use steel. Best of luck your project sounds interesting, may be a member can help you obtain what you want for the build. Let me know if you can get the video, I may be able to copy here the video onto a CD if it is unavailable in the US.
Kind regards, ALSS.
Kind regards, ALSS.
Video loaded! Interesting. I think I'll still stick with cut rifling. Look at these videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twwQbpwZz9w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvwOcrC6cdU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twwQbpwZz9w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvwOcrC6cdU
Are you looking to made a particular Navy model (i.e. 3rd or 4th model)?
Not really, I have an 1856 mfg original I'll us for dimensions. Lots of scrap brass saved to cast brass triggerguards. Tool steel saved for the cylinders and barrel. Its my favorite percussion model and for awhile I wanted to make one from the ground up. Its also time efficient to make more than one item. Making 1 part may take an hour. 2 parts would take 1 1/2 hours, 10 parts may only take 3 hours, thus why I may make more than one. The hard part is definitely machining a frame from solid bar stock, that is why I want to find rough castings and I'll machine that part from there. At a gun show in Crown Point Indiana (2001?) I saw a box of 51 navy iron frame rough castings and 60 army castings. Drove away and hit the Illinois line before I realized I should have bought the whole box of 51 Navy castings. The next year (2002) was driving through again on my way to Wyoming and hit the same show....eagerly ran right to where they were the year before but they were gone. Not only that, no dealer there could remember anyone having the rough castings....grr......
Really cool project. Keep us updated. I'd machine all the parts from bar stock. A band saw can remove a lot of material pretty quick. Rifling buttons are commercially available but I think cut rifling is better.Not really, I have an 1856 mfg original I'll us for dimensions. Lots of scrap brass saved to cast brass triggerguards. Tool steel saved for the cylinders and barrel. Its my favorite percussion model and for awhile I wanted to make one from the ground up. Its also time efficient to make more than one item. Making 1 part may take an hour. 2 parts would take 1 1/2 hours, 10 parts may only take 3 hours, thus why I may make more than one. The hard part is definitely machining a frame from solid bar stock, that is why I want to find rough castings and I'll machine that part from there. At a gun show in Crown Point Indiana (2001?) I saw a box of 51 navy iron frame rough castings and 60 army castings. Drove away and hit the Illinois line before I realized I should have bought the whole box of 51 Navy castings. The next year (2002) was driving through again on my way to Wyoming and hit the same show....eagerly ran right to where they were the year before but they were gone. Not only that, no dealer there could remember anyone having the rough castings....grr......
IMHO don't use crappy Italian parts for bolts etc. Get a proper Smith Enterprise bolt and fit it.
Tool steel for cylinder and barrel? I'd make em from a good quality bar stock.
That would be very cool dandak. You might find this interesting, a collection of
twenty-three Colt percussion and conversion replicas made by Master Machinist Glen Marose of Missoula, Montana. https://jamesdjulia.com/item/53091-103-402/
I think it would be really neat if someone could make correctly proportioned grip frames, patterned from originals, with screw holes that would allow them to be fitted to current Uberti and Pietta replicas.
I think it would be really neat if someone could make correctly proportioned grip frames, patterned from originals, with screw holes that would allow them to be fitted to current Uberti and Pietta replicas.
Lodgewood sells a wax cast triggerguard for a Navy/Army.That would be very cool dandak. You might find this interesting, a collection oftwenty-three Colt percussion and conversion replicas made by Master Machinist Glen Marose of Missoula, Montana. https://jamesdjulia.com/item/53091-103-402/
I think it would be really neat if someone could make correctly proportioned grip frames, patterned from originals, with screw holes that would allow them to be fitted to current Uberti and Pietta replicas.
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