Anybody with a lathe want to turn me a firing pin?

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I have myself a Hatsan cheapy over under shotgun that has a knack for breaking the stock pins. I've tried calling a few machine shops local to me, but all of them are into heavy industrial type machining.

Wondering if anybody out there with the equipment and know-how would be interested in turning a pin or two for me? I can provide pictures and detailed drawings and measurements for it. Or if anybody knows of a good spot in the Kingston area to get something like this done, the tip would be greatly appreciated!

Before anybody tells me to contact Bell Outdoors to order parts, I tried that a couple times and I'm still waiting for the first pin to show up almost 6 years later!!!

Thanks!
 
If you are able to take decent measurements, can you make your own?

Basic household tools that could do it are a cordless variable speed drill and a bench grinder.

By holding the stock in a drill and turning it, while working the material against the turning grinder wheel, you can do pretty much anything a lathe can do.

Stuff like a nice radius at the base of the narrow pin section is easy at the corner of the wheel. A chainsaw file, plus a small flat file and a bit of elbow grease will take care of cut out sections, file the round notches at eithe end, then file away the middle section.

Lots more than just one valve stem out of a destroyed or rebuilt engine, has been used for making a new firing pin over the years. But even if you make it out of a nail (very soft material) it onlly takes a few minutes to make another if the first one fails to work well.

Just saying. It's not a task beyond the basic home worker to do. If you have the willingness to put a few minutes at a time into it. You got 6 years waiting out of the project already.

Learn how to make the stuff and you won't ever be stuck again.
 
Can you provide a pin to take own measurements? I am pretty busy these days but if you're not in a crazy rush I might be able to help, I am in Frankford, so not far from Kingston.

GST
 
Potshot21 said:
I have myself a Hatsan cheapy over under shotgun that has a knack for breaking the stock pins. I've tried calling a few machine shops local to me, but all of them are into heavy industrial type machining.

Wondering if anybody out there with the equipment and know-how would be interested in turning a pin or two for me? I can provide pictures and detailed drawings and measurements for it. Or if anybody knows of a good spot in the Kingston area to get something like this done, the tip would be greatly appreciated!

Before anybody tells me to contact Bell Outdoors to order parts, I tried that a couple times and I'm still waiting for the first pin to show up almost 6 years later!!!

Thanks!
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Wow, really?

They went above and beyond for me with some issues with more than one JW-15; try them again. Contact Luc, I will PM with his email.
 
guntech said:
Correct heat treatment is required if you don't want to keep breaking pins...
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Do it yourself; use a grade 8 bolt or a piece of drill-rod; can be formed with files in a drill-press. Heat red on the burner of an electric stove, quench in oil to harden. If quenched in water it needs to be tempered to remove britleness, polish, reheat until straw colored, then quench again in water. Polish, oil, install and shoot.
 
Meroh said:
Do it yourself; use a grade 8 bolt or a piece of drill-rod; can be formed with files in a drill-press. Heat red on the burner of an electric stove, quench in oil to harden. If quenched in water it needs to be tempered to remove britleness, polish, reheat until straw colored, then quench again in water. Polish, oil, install and shoot.
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As I said, it needs to be heat treated correctly... that means you need to know if it is oil hardening steel or water quenching steel... and after quenching it is too hard and drawing to a straw color it is still way too hard... I would suggest drawing to purple. A softer shotgun pin is way better than a hard one.
 
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