Fix a Swing Bolt

[hitchphil]

£75 Fultons, £95 HPS.

[ovenpaa]

Worth having a go yourself?

[Hauptman]

£75 ??? Blimey, I thought 40 quid was a bit ott....................almost worth getting a cheap Chinese lathe...................

If you do have a go, it'd be worth putting a larger grub screw in the steel collar at the front end. The one that's supposed to lock the collar onto the thread on the firing pin when you've set the firing pin protrusion. It's so small that the allen key, if you can find one the right size, will "round" the socket very easily when tightening. Use some Loctite on the firing pin thread only,(the type that allows easy dismantling), and barely nip the tiny grubbie up.

H/man

[IainWR]

I won't sell my spare pin, but I'm happy to lend it to be measured at Bisley. (For a copy of the dimensions to file)

Iain

[hitchphil]

I won't sell my spare pin, but I'm happy to lend it to be measured at Bisley. (For a copy of the dimensions to file)

Iain

Cheers Iain - Deal, BCRC or Imperial.......

Shooting kit 2013; rifle, bolt, jacket, sling, glove, vernier, micrometer................. tongueout

[R.G.C]

£75 ??? Blimey, I thought 40 quid was a bit ott....................almost worth getting a cheap Chinese lathe...................

If you do have a go, it'd be worth putting a larger grub screw in the steel collar at the front end. The one that's supposed to lock the collar onto the thread on the firing pin when you've set the firing pin protrusion. It's so small that the allen key, if you can find one the right size, will "round" the socket very easily when tightening. Use some Loctite on the firing pin thread only,(the type that allows easy dismantling), and barely nip the tiny grubbie up.

H/man

'Normally' the collars were case-hardemed and drilling tapping is impossible.

Also, putting a larger screw would increase the pressure on an already stressed point.

The spring is large enpugh to allow a counter-nut to be added a front of the sear pin holder and at rear of the front collar (need to rethread a little the FP to allow for the nut).

I have transformed in the past many Swing FP by simply shortening them at front (cutting away the broken tip) and adapt a C.G separate floating firing pin. This works, we are still waiting to see one break here, as the small part can then be made of superior material, and, in the unlikely case of a break, suffice to replace the small tip.

Prtrusion is set once for all by grinding the front face of the hammer from the dry firing collar.

I just pass the idea, and presume if demand is there, a gunsmith could have made run a small quantity of those FP and made the transformation at a fraction of the cost of a new (and again prone to break) FP

Ovenpaa??

R.G.C

[ovenpaa]

Robert, it is certainly an option and once a double ended CG floating firing pin is fitted the immediate issue of a broken firing pin is removed as the assembly is simply reversed.

[shugie]

If the Shooting Shed were to produce Swing firing pins at a better price than Fultons or HPS, I'd be in the market for one as a spare.

[R.G.C]

Robert, it is certainly an option and once a double ended CG floating firing pin is fitted the immediate issue of a broken firing pin is removed as the assembly is simply reversed.

David,

The twin tipped system would not work on the SWING, no more on the RPA...Don't ask me why, it us my secret..... and I keep it for the INCHs and Deltas...

R.G.C

[ovenpaa]

So a single ended floating pin Robert?