Posted 4 years ago
roadweasel
(33 items)
A junk New Orleans Ace kit pistol , bought at a gun show missing the ram rod and pipe, a loose barrel, and no wood stock. Was turned into a English type screw off barrel Loader. The Home made Turned and Tapper swamped canon ended barrel was a old 7/8'' octagon .36 cal. rifle barrel that I had cut down for its smaller cal. .The original barrel were of .45 cal. and with a 1/2-20 breach plug thread on the frame, it did not leave much chamber seal as the inter diameter of a National fine 1/2'' thread had a minor diameter almost at .45 diameter. And really the quality of the original barrel was over threaded deeper than the breach threads and very loose. I threaded the new barrel breech with a H1 factor pitch tap, H1 tap's are much more precise in tolerance . They tighten up that slop that you get from standard H3 taps. The trigger was hand checkered and the hammer was face carved. The Michigan whitetail deer antler was one in a thousand. To find the right thickness and width, with not a lot a curve took 3 years of looking . The brass barrel lug wrench was fashioned by me , but Wire Burned EDM on the correct barrel tapper octagon by Wolverine EDM of Grand Rapids Michigan. Shout out to Dave as he did the lay out and hit it dead on. This fun little belt pistol is a peach.
You want me to convert it to full-auto .45 acp for you ? I promise that you won't even recognize it when you get it back ! LOL ! Beautiful work again. Bet cutting the inside octagon shape of that barrel wrench took some setting up time.
blunderbuss2 , The barrel cutting was not that hard, been making dope pipes for so long, that my mill and lathe work goes together well. As stated I took a old original barrel, as this will be short I did not care if the rifling was not fast enough twist , just clean. Turned ends square, bore and thread breech plug end, and made longer to hold in lathe. Turned the tapper on barrel, then went into mill and indexed in a collect spinner. Took a 6'' wide fly cutter , kicked the head of the Bridgeport in 5 degree's, as not to cut a flat but a radius arch . Then I kick the indexer in the mill on a tapper down a couple degrees. You end up with a swamped effect , and just have to index every 60 degrees for 6 flats, or 45 degree for 8 flats. I held the brass frame at the same time in the mill and scalloped that with a deep 7/8'' dia. cutter. You have to take baby passes and support your work. I have a second one I'm working on, but the hammer on this new piece of junk is as hard as a rock, and makes carving it difficult other than with carbide. Hope to finish soon, Cheers, my friend,