We wrapped this up yesterday. "Elvis" has left the building.
All I'll say is a 96 hour turnaround is pretty impressive to completely rebuild 8 precision rifles.
Teardown
Blueprint
TIG Weld bolts
Grind/bore lugs
Rebarrel
Remove a horrible attempt at skim bedding
Surface machine the stock inlet to 1:1 fit
Engrave serial numbers on everything
Ceracote the metal
Repaint the stocks
Assemble
Load enough ammo to test
Zero and evaluate on the range
Palletize for delivery.
They were range tested yesterday and all of them ran well. Were pretty happy girls and boys right now.
This would have never been possible alone.
Kalli, Garret, and Donnie are great. A big Thank You to each for all the hard work.
Back to our normal chaotic selves again come Monday.
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What had to be tig welded with the bolt and lugs? [/
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Who said anything about welding lugs?
After truing an action/lugs on a bolt, the timing and primary extraction changes. Repositioning the bolt handle to regain the primary extraction is a std practice for us. Instead of soldering the bolt handle back on, I weld it. This way its stronger in the event of a stubborn case having to be persuaded out of the cha
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Never said anything about welding lugs. We did however surface grind the recoil lugs to bring all of them to a uniform thickness and to ensure paralellism.
I use the receiver lug abutments as the datum point when accurizing the receiver. This along with the bolt work allows for very repeatable values once we move to the lathe.
