I got sick a couple of weeks ago with the flu, I thought. Turned into a nice little pneumonia and has had me pretty housebound...........and BORED. Dammit I couldnt even smoke.
I had no powder, so couldn't do any loading. Everything on the Norc is already peened and loctited. A new paintjob is out of the question cos of the breathing issues.So I got to thinking it was about time to do a bedding job, couldn't be that hard I thought
Spent a day looking at the stickies and utube, ran thru the whole thing a few times before getting the Dremmel and the JB weld out.
Confidence was HIGH.
Lots of tape on the stock, half a pound of play doh in and around the receiver, carefully marked and cut, careful use of the Dremmel and drill and half a tin of Kiwi Parade Gloss on the metal surfaces. So far so good
Mixed up some JB and, not without some trepidation mated the action to the stock and wrapped that sucker in so much tape it would have got a Mummy excited.
Cleaned off all the goop as it emerged, and feeling well pleased with meself set it aside for 24 hours (definitely a slow bake )
Next day. Poked at the weld and she was good and hard. This was when I thought I was buggered if the Parade Gloss didn't do its job, Cut the tape off and tried to separate the stock. Two good whacks on the kitchen table did the job, and what a relief that was. Eased the receiver from the stock and $%$^&%$^**%$#&.
The horseshoe bit and the left side were perfect but the right side looked like the basement floor. Not enough weld in there. So I got the Dremmel out again and roughed up the top some and gave her a light skim off weld, try again.
Came out alright next day. Time to assemble. The trigger group now needed a LOT more pressure to close, but didn't require a hammer. Very happy with that, tight is good right ? Now to try the trigger test. FAIL . That sucker would have emptied the mag in a nano second. Got the files out and lightly relieved all the top surfaces until it passed the trigger test. Its still a whole lot tighter than before and the hammer stays back
As a learning experience I'm happy enough that I know the process and it potential pitfalls ( next time more JB )
If you screw up , it can be fixed.
Boot polish is an excellent release agent.
As soon as I get better Im off to the range to try it out, but may well rip her all out and do it again just for the hell of it before then.
I also did the ferrule mod while I was at it and that was a big PASS, it looks so Springfieldy now ( Don't know what difference its supposed to make )
All this is done on an old Chinese plastic stock, and I have the safety net of a spare stock in case I really screw up.......but it really isn't that difficult. Its mostly preparation.
On a brighter note I now have 8lb of H4895 and 600 empty cases to fill.
If at first you %^&$ up.........try again.
Keepin it cheap.
I had no powder, so couldn't do any loading. Everything on the Norc is already peened and loctited. A new paintjob is out of the question cos of the breathing issues.So I got to thinking it was about time to do a bedding job, couldn't be that hard I thought
Spent a day looking at the stickies and utube, ran thru the whole thing a few times before getting the Dremmel and the JB weld out.
Confidence was HIGH.
Lots of tape on the stock, half a pound of play doh in and around the receiver, carefully marked and cut, careful use of the Dremmel and drill and half a tin of Kiwi Parade Gloss on the metal surfaces. So far so good
Mixed up some JB and, not without some trepidation mated the action to the stock and wrapped that sucker in so much tape it would have got a Mummy excited.
Cleaned off all the goop as it emerged, and feeling well pleased with meself set it aside for 24 hours (definitely a slow bake )
Next day. Poked at the weld and she was good and hard. This was when I thought I was buggered if the Parade Gloss didn't do its job, Cut the tape off and tried to separate the stock. Two good whacks on the kitchen table did the job, and what a relief that was. Eased the receiver from the stock and $%$^&%$^**%$#&.
The horseshoe bit and the left side were perfect but the right side looked like the basement floor. Not enough weld in there. So I got the Dremmel out again and roughed up the top some and gave her a light skim off weld, try again.
Came out alright next day. Time to assemble. The trigger group now needed a LOT more pressure to close, but didn't require a hammer. Very happy with that, tight is good right ? Now to try the trigger test. FAIL . That sucker would have emptied the mag in a nano second. Got the files out and lightly relieved all the top surfaces until it passed the trigger test. Its still a whole lot tighter than before and the hammer stays back
As a learning experience I'm happy enough that I know the process and it potential pitfalls ( next time more JB )
If you screw up , it can be fixed.
Boot polish is an excellent release agent.
As soon as I get better Im off to the range to try it out, but may well rip her all out and do it again just for the hell of it before then.
I also did the ferrule mod while I was at it and that was a big PASS, it looks so Springfieldy now
( Don't know what difference its supposed to make )All this is done on an old Chinese plastic stock, and I have the safety net of a spare stock in case I really screw up.......but it really isn't that difficult. Its mostly preparation.
On a brighter note I now have 8lb of H4895 and 600 empty cases to fill.
If at first you %^&$ up.........try again.
Keepin it cheap.
