Tom menck 22 chamber iron

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Does anybody know where to find this tool in Canada. Brownells will not sell it to me even to my American address because my billing address is Canadian.

http ://www.brownells.com/gunsmith-tools-supplies/handgun-tools/chamber-tools/22-chamber-ironing-tool-prod8869.aspx
 
Phone them and ask.

If you are quitting because it says so on their site, that is the default because it is easier to say no than to try to sort out the whole stock they carry.

Talk to the exports desk.

Cheers
Trev
 
I tried ordering one a couple of weeks ago with some other parts, but it was removed from my order because of their shipping restrictions. Contacted their customer service and they confirmed they could not ship this item to Canada.
 
I mush prefer to use a .22 LR chambering reamer and remove the offending 'dent'... it can't come back again...

I am really surprised they can not ship or will not ship a simple tool...
 
jdawg said:
Trev I am interested in building one how would I go about doing so
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Start with some round stock that will just fit, or is a bit smaller than the chamber. File a tapered flat on the side. Whip the sandpaper back and forth to round the sharp edges. Bend the other end to make the handle. Insert with the flat towards the dent, twist, repeat as required.

Wedging the tool in and tapping it sideways with a punch and hammer can work too.

Easier with a lathe, easy enough with files and a drill press or electric hand drill. Heat treat optional. because you can make another if you need it.

A number 2 drill bit is a pretty close fit to chamber diameter, drill shanks can be filed. Drill rod blanks can be got in about any size you want or need, if you don't need it "now".

Cheers
Trev
 
jdawg said:
I'll have a chat with my machinist at work and see about getting him to help me make one
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Even easier then!

Start with some 1/4 inch drill rod, turn to the chamber diameter, as best as you can estimate to cover your needs. Mill a tapered flat on it, harden.

Emery paper or a light touch on a deburring wheel (if he has one) to polish up the surface and radius off the edges of the beveled flat. Maybe dress over the edges before hardening, using a file.

The bevel allows you to reach in past the displaced metal, the handle allows you to turn the whole affair and allows you to swage it back into place, mostly, in a controlled fashion. Sometimes all yer gonna do is make it less bad, before you need to go at it with the chamber reamer, but it's worth a kick at it anyways.

A smooth finish to keep it from gouging up the chamber walls in use, eh?

Cheers
Trev
 
What is the best way to harden a part like this ? Thanks for all the help trev I think this is going to be fun
 
Depends on the material started with.

For plain carbon steel, heating it red hot (until a magnet won't stick) and plonking it into a can of water, will make it as hard (and brittle) as it will get. Unfortunately, if you do that to an oil hardening steel, it will often crack or break, so you need to figure out where you are starting from.

There are water hardening steels (W-1, etc), Oil hardening (O-1), and air hardening (A-2) available in the form of rods with a ground surface finish.
Check out KBC Tools online catalog, and look for the drill rod. Starret sells drill rod and flat stock in various sizes too. Expensive, compared to bulk steel, but sometimes you really don't need much and when the work is 95 percent of the cost of making it...

I'd suggest polishing it up with a strip of emery while it is hard, then applying heat to the shaft behind it, and plonking it back into water when it turns straw colored at the tip. Provided you are using water hardening or plain carbon steel, anyways.

Google Heat Treat Colors, to see some pictures of what that looks like. If your machinist has any experience that way, talk nice to him and see what you can come up with.

Cheers
Trev
 
That sounds fairly simple I might have to play around with these techniques and give it a try on the pike spear I'm making.
 
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