Meadowlark
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Like that old turkish mauser thats been sitting in the safe for years> Asking for a friend of course.
GUNS/RLTD is now a good time to be selling those safe queens?
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BadMedicine
Would *I* Lie???
sell now before they lose any more value.
firearms are a savage relic of the cruel and animalistic beginnings of mankind.
Ever since civilization and collective thought they have been hoarded and clutched by only the most paranoid of assbats.
Sell while you can still find a sucker who'll take em.
I had to pay a neighbor to take mine, I rightfully suspected he was a racists agitator by his porch-hung american flag he dehumanizes the immigrant neighbors with. good riddance to both, I've since moved to a more culturally diverse neighborhood, registered D and voted by mail in all 50 sates.
(couldn't tell if this was a serious thread, or if OP is just triggering the clutchers and fishing for boat stories:-P)
firearms are a savage relic of the cruel and animalistic beginnings of mankind.
Ever since civilization and collective thought they have been hoarded and clutched by only the most paranoid of assbats.
Sell while you can still find a sucker who'll take em.
I had to pay a neighbor to take mine, I rightfully suspected he was a racists agitator by his porch-hung american flag he dehumanizes the immigrant neighbors with. good riddance to both, I've since moved to a more culturally diverse neighborhood, registered D and voted by mail in all 50 sates.
(couldn't tell if this was a serious thread, or if OP is just triggering the clutchers and fishing for boat stories:-P)
Squib
Veteran Member
I’ve got an 1884 Springfield trapdoor carbine...my dads in hospice so he gave it to me...I cleaned in some years ago...and as I reload for 45-70, loaded a few powder puff rounds and shot it...hadn’t been shot in at least the 50+ years my dad has had it!
Told my son who’ll be inheriting it, shoot it every year on grandpa’s birthday...which usually lands on Thanksgiving.
Aldo got a mid 1800’s ‘Zulu Hunter’ - converted from a Belgian musket to a breech loading .557, then to a 12 gauge for the Zulu wars...still trying to find a firing pin for it!
Told my son who’ll be inheriting it, shoot it every year on grandpa’s birthday...which usually lands on Thanksgiving.
Aldo got a mid 1800’s ‘Zulu Hunter’ - converted from a Belgian musket to a breech loading .557, then to a 12 gauge for the Zulu wars...still trying to find a firing pin for it!
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
Sell a priceless relic of a bygone era?
(Can you still get ammo for that?)
If I turn the lead shot I have into balls then yes, I can still get ammo for mine. Will have to knap some flint bits while I'm at it of course.
EMICT
Veteran Member
I have an old New Englander single shot 12 gauge that I wouldn't sell for anything. After a good days hunt with that thing you won't want to go the next day because your shoulder will be black and blue from shooting it. Especially high brass shells. It would still be good to take out some commie dems. with 00 buck shot at 30 yds. if I had to use it. There's too many memories associated with it to get rid of it. Besides I'd probably only get 50 bucks for it.
Blacknarwhal
Let's Go Brandon!
On the off chance that we were wrong about the door-to-door gun grab being an impossibility--which I kind of doubt--the safe queens make excellent dodges. "Here you go, sir, here's all the nasty-wasty guns I have left! Six AR-15s? Oh no no, those were all lost in a tragic boating accident last summer. All I have is this lousy rusted out POS that won't shoot straight if you bribed it. There you go! On your way! Good bye! Don't come back if you know what's good for you!"
Bubble Head
Has No Life - Lives on TB
You can have a firing pin made out of a nail. I have done it before on a pre 1900. Check with Thinwater.
Squib
Veteran Member
I will, thanks...I’ve already been reading up on it...I kinda figured I’d have to fabricate one...but I’d probably use a harder steel, anneal it so I can file it then re-harded it after it’s done...the shape is kinda weird.
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ArisenCarcass
Veteran Member
Do you mind if I ask where?
Since Armslist went down the paywall-hole, there isn't a clear favorite alternative.
Locally. I use Gunbroker if I do it thru an auction site
You have metallurgical equipment and the means to heat treat steel?
Depending on condition and if its a reworked 1944 K98 you can ask $300 for one in really good shape.
Most going for $200 that the stock has not been cleaned up. I have seen these sold as is when shipped and received they were just dipped shock and all in cosmaline and thick and heavily coated with it.
Most going for $200 that the stock has not been cleaned up. I have seen these sold as is when shipped and received they were just dipped shock and all in cosmaline and thick and heavily coated with it.
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Roger Thornhill
Some irascible old curmudgeon
All it takes is some D2 steel drill rod, a few hand tools, a propane torch, and a coffee can full of used motor oil - -and patience. I made a new firing pin for my Astra 400, thinking it would be only a temporary fix . That was about six years and a thousand rounds ago, and it still works as it should.
Expedient hardening and annealing should be skills in everyone's toolkit; days are fast approaching when we'll need the basic fabricating and repair knowledge our ancestors used every week on the farms and in the shops.
Casenite or others...
Produces A Super Hard Surface On Plain & Low Carbon Steels
Easy-to-use compound case hardens plain and low carbon alloy steels. Carburizes surfaces quickly to uniform depth while retaining the toughness of the core. Also protects delicate, highly finished work, and helps eliminate the need for remachining. Simply apply the hardening compound to your metal parts, heat to the required temperature, then quench in oil or water for a professional grade, heat-treatment. Helps keep the edge sharp on expensive drill bits, milling and grinding tools, punches, firing pins, hammer davits, trigger pins, sears, and cocking pieces. Water soluble for easy clean-up. Complete instructions included.
Some discussion here....
Produces A Super Hard Surface On Plain & Low Carbon Steels
Easy-to-use compound case hardens plain and low carbon alloy steels. Carburizes surfaces quickly to uniform depth while retaining the toughness of the core. Also protects delicate, highly finished work, and helps eliminate the need for remachining. Simply apply the hardening compound to your metal parts, heat to the required temperature, then quench in oil or water for a professional grade, heat-treatment. Helps keep the edge sharp on expensive drill bits, milling and grinding tools, punches, firing pins, hammer davits, trigger pins, sears, and cocking pieces. Water soluble for easy clean-up. Complete instructions included.
Some discussion here....
Case Hardening recipe - The Home Shop Machinist & Machinist's Workshop Magazine's BBS
bbs.homeshopmachinist.net
I worked for 7 years in a metal foundry that specialized in precision parts and exotic alloys. I worked for the Process Control and Engineering group. I wrote a bunch of software for the various processes and learned how heat treating is done. What you describe is not heat treating. Frankly, I don’t know WTH it is, but it sounds like a complete waste of time and effort to me.
Roger Thornhill
Some irascible old curmudgeon
Sorry, but I must disagree. I also worked for a heat treating company, designating process times and temperatures, as well as performing hardness testing and case depth measurements for quality control. Heat to the proper temperature for a specific time, draw at another temperature for a specific time, and quench in the proper medium. The variables have been established for decades to achieve a specific Rockwell or Brinnell hardness, as well as case measurement.
I think if you ask any machinist or toolmaker whether or not you can harden metal with a torch and quench medium, they will tell you 'of course'.
I think if you ask any machinist or toolmaker whether or not you can harden metal with a torch and quench medium, they will tell you 'of course'.
If you say so. I don’t buy it though.
If you’re actually serious Coulter (I have no idea if you are) then you should unload every gun you own immediately.
Simple A, O, or W hardening tools steels heat and quench to roughly a desired hardness maybe. Alloy steels, probably not without the proper equipment.
I would expect a modern home machinist/gunsmith could reproduce that part with better quality than the original.
db cooper
Resident Secret Squirrel
In welding school they taught basic heat treating that I occasionally use over the years. The process was to heat until cherry red then quench in motor oil. I did this a couple years ago to a set of brush hog blades. The first rock I hit the blades shattered like glass. Could never find all the parts.
I don't think I will do that again with mower blades.
biere
Veteran Member
Some folks take lawn mower blades and make a knife shape and heat it up and quench it to temper the metal. If such things work for that I expect something should be able to be done for a firing pin. Might take some trial and error.
On selling stuffs, how are your other preps? Right now especially when you have a couple hundred rounds of ammo it is astounding what some folks will pay for a firearm.
Now some folks only own a very few guns. Others got a safe so full of stuff they forget what is in the very back or they run out of room in the safe and stash stuff around the house and forget about some of them.
Right now is a time where you might be able to help out a friend and yourself if you have something you want to get rid of and put the money towards something else.
I am lazy to some extent but also not gonna take the chance of arming the enemy by putting my stuff up on the net and shipping it across the country to the buyer. Kinda prefer to see someone has been on a gun board for a bit or even someone I sorta know a bit from posts.
But then I also don't feel like selling any of my stuff.
On selling stuffs, how are your other preps? Right now especially when you have a couple hundred rounds of ammo it is astounding what some folks will pay for a firearm.
Now some folks only own a very few guns. Others got a safe so full of stuff they forget what is in the very back or they run out of room in the safe and stash stuff around the house and forget about some of them.
Right now is a time where you might be able to help out a friend and yourself if you have something you want to get rid of and put the money towards something else.
I am lazy to some extent but also not gonna take the chance of arming the enemy by putting my stuff up on the net and shipping it across the country to the buyer. Kinda prefer to see someone has been on a gun board for a bit or even someone I sorta know a bit from posts.
But then I also don't feel like selling any of my stuff.
db cooper
Resident Secret Squirrel
No kidding. I was in a gun shop a couple days ago looking for "anything that will fit a Judge". I was asked if I wanted to sell my Judge (Taurus Judge, shoots 410's or 45 LC's). The two guys behind the counter said I could get $1200 for it now. This is a revolver that is about $400 new.
bartp40
Veteran Member
Know a buddy or friend at gun shop that has a FFL? They can list it on Gunbroker to a wider audience that trying to palm off your smoke pole to someone else.
I think the good old days of buying online and shipping to your ffl transfer agent may be coming to an end. You could truly find what you wanted instead of settling for a cookie cutter model that you find at a store or show.
I think the good old days of buying online and shipping to your ffl transfer agent may be coming to an end. You could truly find what you wanted instead of settling for a cookie cutter model that you find at a store or show.
paul bunyan
Frostbite Falls, Minnesota
I like it.... lets start a " Guns for the Amish " charity
mistaken1
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Most of the local young people around here are not amish but they do show off those racist American flags on occasion.
Meadowlark
Has No Life - Lives on TB
know of any metallurgist jobs in Texas?
Sold my buddy some 410 for his Dads Judge the other day. He was thrilled to get it as he couldnt find any.
I am definitely going to include ammo as part of any sales. Huge help in this market.
Southside
Has No Life - Lives on TB
1200bux?
It would be gone in a second.
I'd even trow in a full cylinder of ammo.
It would be gone in a second.
I'd even trow in a full cylinder of ammo.
