Gunsmith RUINED my Model 70...
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Ridgerunner665
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Yeah...but even if the weld would hold...can you imagine the heat stress welding would put in a barrel?
Likely wouldn't shoot worth beans...
Likely wouldn't shoot worth beans...
6mm Remington
Ammo Smith
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Here's a thought on your rifle. Obviously you have spent a lot of time and care on this project. Gather up some of your nice pictures that you have of it and work that any other gunsmith's have done on it for you. As best as you can and if possible find receipts for the work and the $$$ you have spent on your rifle. Sit down on your computer and detail what you describe here and what you had them (The company that messed it up.) do for you. Take pictures of the final result and take pictures showing light going clear though the action as you describe. I would have a known and trusted gunsmith look at the work and possibly give his opinion not only on the work but the fact that the rifle has been ruined. Put all of this in a package and take it to a small claims court and file a suit over the ruined rifle and the money that it will take to replace it since it has been destroyed. The fee's to file such a claim are not a lot and you can do this all yourself. Contact the Civil department at the courthouse in the jurisdiction this took place in, where the shoddy work was done, and they can direct you on how to proceed.
I hope that helps. I think that might be your only way to get some resolution to this problem by the way you are describing their reactions and what they intend to do for you. Force them to make it right.
I hope that helps. I think that might be your only way to get some resolution to this problem by the way you are describing their reactions and what they intend to do for you. Force them to make it right.
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Ridge, I know how you can have it fixed. Find a good machinist, have him remove the barrel, clean up the hole that was drilled threw the chamber, make a pin out of tool steel oversize of the hole by a couple of Thousandths, freeze the pin in liquid oxygen and insert into hole. Run a chamber reamer in to clean up chamber and chase barrel threads to clean them up also. With the action you can have him do the same thing only use a pin double the size of the scope mount screw, say procedure and then drill and tap the plug.
When I worked in the Electric Generation industry and when we would over haul a unit we would turn the rotor shafts and freeze sweat sleeves and bearings onto the shafts in this manner to build up the shafts and replace the bearings. Electric turbines are under greater stress than a rifle chamber and those bearings and sleeves never failed. they would wear out with time and replaced at each over haul if not in specs but they wouldn't come off those shafts.
When I worked in the Electric Generation industry and when we would over haul a unit we would turn the rotor shafts and freeze sweat sleeves and bearings onto the shafts in this manner to build up the shafts and replace the bearings. Electric turbines are under greater stress than a rifle chamber and those bearings and sleeves never failed. they would wear out with time and replaced at each over haul if not in specs but they wouldn't come off those shafts.
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truck driver":1wsk9t1w said:
He already did :wink:
DrMike
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ScreaminEagle":3hdc8hcu said:
...said Steve modestly. :grin:
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Good luck with that Steve.ScreaminEagle":1vhvlqfx said:
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Ridgerunner665
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FOTIS":3ctkwvps said:
Its not showing...they probably deleted it, or I didn't look in the right place...but thank you for posting it...they saw it even if nobody else does.
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Ammo Smith
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It's still there, right beside their in house gun smith sign :?:Ridgerunner665":2dl994ef said:
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Ridgerunner665
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Maybe I wasn't looking in the right place
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Ridgerunner665
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Found it...
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They deleted everything and changed their settings so no one can post on their wall except sub comments. At least I can not!
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Ridgerunner665
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Lmao...figures...
I'm gonna post the story on Marlin Owners, The High Road, The Firing Line, and AR15.com too...
Should get to at least a few hundred locals that way...I hope.
I'm gonna post the story on Marlin Owners, The High Road, The Firing Line, and AR15.com too...
Should get to at least a few hundred locals that way...I hope.
ScreaminEagle
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Go get'em RR!
RiverRider
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Gave 'em a good whack, myself.
