My son was ill yesterday, and I held him back from school. This is what under 3 hours of work, and enough parts can earn you...
To start, I had a Squires Bingham 20 project on my kitchen table for ages...broken trigger (darn aluminum). In attempts to get a trigger, I acquired almost enough parts to build another one....needed a barreled action. (I had trigger group, bolt, magazines, sights etc...)
I acquired this "pristine" barreled action yesterday afternoon:
A wee bit of rust, and pitting as you can see. I hit it with some elbow grease, and got this:
No pictures, but then hit the whole works with some 400 paper, and got it all shiny. (no blue left). Then slapped 2 thin coats of matte/flat black spray paint:
Not including paint drying time, I have about 2 hours into it at this time. Add all the parts I've accumulated and voila:
Assembly took about 20 minutes....I took extra care with that darn trigger. If I had to find another one a very terrible cycle would start again...
I have sights here somewhere for it. If there are connoisseurs out there, they will recognize the barrel as a "deluxe" model 20, and the stock is a later dated ho-hum 20P.
All in, under 3 hours of effort, and a pretty low budget to boot. These semi .22's are very accurate, and were/are budget guns. Still popular in the m-16 form (prohibited in the AK form for some idiotic reason).
That said, if I ever encounter a broken trigger on a 20P again, I'll suggest they buy a new one from Numrich!
To start, I had a Squires Bingham 20 project on my kitchen table for ages...broken trigger (darn aluminum). In attempts to get a trigger, I acquired almost enough parts to build another one....needed a barreled action. (I had trigger group, bolt, magazines, sights etc...)
I acquired this "pristine" barreled action yesterday afternoon:
A wee bit of rust, and pitting as you can see. I hit it with some elbow grease, and got this:
No pictures, but then hit the whole works with some 400 paper, and got it all shiny. (no blue left). Then slapped 2 thin coats of matte/flat black spray paint:
Not including paint drying time, I have about 2 hours into it at this time. Add all the parts I've accumulated and voila:
Assembly took about 20 minutes....I took extra care with that darn trigger. If I had to find another one a very terrible cycle would start again...
I have sights here somewhere for it. If there are connoisseurs out there, they will recognize the barrel as a "deluxe" model 20, and the stock is a later dated ho-hum 20P.
All in, under 3 hours of effort, and a pretty low budget to boot. These semi .22's are very accurate, and were/are budget guns. Still popular in the m-16 form (prohibited in the AK form for some idiotic reason).
That said, if I ever encounter a broken trigger on a 20P again, I'll suggest they buy a new one from Numrich!
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I have done a few and the end result gets better each time. Let rifle was a 32 bluei g came out pretty good.
