I got a wild hair yesterday and decided to install a set of sling swivels on my Marlin Model 60 so I dug in my parts boxes and found a couple wood screw versions and a couple machine screw versions. The rear swivel was no problem but the forend one made me think a little because on a Model 60 it's only about 3/8" thick on the bottom and I was concerned about there being enough meat for the wood screw one.
I had some 10-32 weld nuts that I'd gotten for something a while back and I felt the low profile and narrow width might just be the ticket. It turned out that it was the perfect width to drop down into the magazine tube slot, it just needed a little pocket to make it flush. A little work with the handheld mill and the pocket kept the weld nut out of the way of the magazine tube while providing reinforcement for the swivel. As an added measure I used JB Weld to glue it in.
A t-nut could've worked in this situation too but would've required modifications to the t-nut to get it to fit down inside the stock and I didn't have any 10-32 t nuts anyway.
I had some 10-32 weld nuts that I'd gotten for something a while back and I felt the low profile and narrow width might just be the ticket. It turned out that it was the perfect width to drop down into the magazine tube slot, it just needed a little pocket to make it flush. A little work with the handheld mill and the pocket kept the weld nut out of the way of the magazine tube while providing reinforcement for the swivel. As an added measure I used JB Weld to glue it in.
A t-nut could've worked in this situation too but would've required modifications to the t-nut to get it to fit down inside the stock and I didn't have any 10-32 t nuts anyway.
