jeweling your bolt.........when your bored

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It's a great way to pass a couple hours and count to 12 a few hundred times in your head with the tunes cranked in the back ground.......

Built the jig and the measuring stick today to breed some new life into an old remington 40X single shot......:dancingbanana:


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In my experience, if you are not bored, jewelling a bolt is a good way to achieve boredom. Of all the mind-numbing tasks one can undertake, this has to rank well up on the list.
 
Butcherbill said:
Nice, what did you put in the chuck to do the engine turning?
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a couple more very simple suggestions I have used for bolt jeweling is a pencil with an eraser on the end dipped in valve turning compound, The speed you turn at and "down-pressure will determine how many pencils you need to do a bolt.

the second and best for a very vivid engraving, I use one of those Dremmel Tool stainless steel wire brushs ( not the wire wheel ones, use the small round straight ones that are about 1/4 " in dia). The harder you press the more the center wires dig in (no grinding compound needed) and the outside wires flare out creating a larger pattern, many different patterns can be made with these and one brush will easily do one bolt.
 
The Flint&Fly Guy said:
This is something I would absolutely love to due, can you guys share some more details?
How does one build the jig?
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Not to put too fine a point on it, but if you cannot figure it out enough by looking at those pictures, I'm gonna suggest that a set of plans with dimensions isn't like to get you much farther ahead.
 
The Flint&Fly Guy said:
This is something I would absolutely love to due, can you guys share some more details?
How does one build the jig?
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Just a couple of 2x4's glued and screwed together about 2" further apart than the longest bolt you'll do. Drill a couple of holes at each end for 1/2" bolts that you can put a nut on each end of the bolt to hold it in place or you can do what I did and tap a couple of pieces of metal for set screws to keep the bolts from turning or pulling out. You need some type of longitudinal indexing for the bolt ( I eyeball the horizontal overlap to about half the diameter of the pattern). Put on some tunes you like and go to town.
 
hunter5425 said:
Just a couple of 2x4's glued and screwed together about 2" further apart than the longest bolt you'll do. Drill a couple of holes at each end for 1/2" bolts that you can put a nut on each end of the bolt to hold it in place or you can do what I did and tap a couple of pieces of metal for set screws to keep the bolts from turning or pulling out. You need some type of longitudinal indexing for the bolt ( I eyeball the horizontal overlap to about half the diameter of the pattern). Put on some tunes you like and go to town.
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There are graph paper generators online that you can make up custom spacing for, then download the .pdf and print it out. Easy source of a set of spaces to use as reference. You can see the spacing lines that Dave has drawn out on his straightedge behind his jig in the pictures. That works too. :)

A straightedge clamped behind the jig will allow you to move the whole lot sideways as required to keep your jig aligned in that axis. Having graph paper under the jig allows you to vary the spacing as you see fit, as well as to use an index mark on the front edge of the jig. Easier to see while sitting in front of the drill press.

Any rubberized abrasive will work, but test on something disposable first. CTire has Dremel rubberized abrasive points for too much money, but they are available about anywhere. Cratex is pretty proud of their stuff too, but generally you have to buy their stuff through industrial suppliers or jewelery supply houses.
Guys have used erasers for ink, the dark blue, gritty ones, as well as using valve grinding paste on a dowel or rubber rod, or disks cut from sandpaper. Lots of options.

For larger panels, the roloc style disk holders and 3M Scotchbrite whizz-wheel disks works pretty well.

Cheers
Trev
 
yodave said:
It's a great way to pass a couple hours and count to 12 a few hundred times in your head with the tunes cranked in the back ground.......

Built the jig and the measuring stick today to breed some new life into an old remington 40X single shot......:dancingbanana:


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Nice job! your bolt looks great!
Check out my collet system for the cratex. It makes the job a lot easier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf0uJ5qkWGw
 
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