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Offline Coop de Ville

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Solder/ epoxy receiver sight???????
« on: October 08, 2005, 05:42:00 AM »
Good morning all.

Wanted to know if anyone here has experience soldering or epoxying a Wilson Scattergun ghost ring rear sight to an 870 receiver.

Long story short, a smith mounted it with the 2 screws slightly right of center... There's not enough offeset to drill new holes (it's off maybe a 1/16 th to an 1/8 th of an inch).

Long story short, I need someone else to fix it....

So, can this be done?
And, anyone know anyone in Northern VA who whould do it?

Thanks for the help -Coop
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Offline clodbuster

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« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2005, 11:48:51 AM »
Epoxy holds just fine when putting a peepsite on the receiver of my underhammer muzzle loader.  Its been on there through hot and cold weather and recoil.  Seems as permanent as I want.  I used JB Weld.
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Offline gunnut69

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« Reply #2 on: October 09, 2005, 01:21:53 PM »
I would strongly advise against epoxy. Differencial expantion of parts will eventually break the bond. The cement used to bond vent ribs to shotgun barrels might work as might the glue used to bond rear view mirror bases to the inside of a windshield.. The best would be to weld the holes shut and redrill, in the correct place.
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Offline Les Brooks

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« Reply #3 on: October 12, 2005, 02:52:08 AM »
I would have another opinion from a gunsmith that has installed many of the open sights.  There is a problem with some eyes where a sight or a scope mounting will appear off.  This is a stigmatisn and I learn the hard way years ago from a Dr after moving his scope to line up the cross hairs.  He had to have about 5 degrees cant to appear straight for his eye.  I used a bore scope from than on to line up the hairs and problem was solved.  That is the reason for a person to check the mounting before leaving the shop and shift if necessary.   If this sight was drilled in the Forster jig it should be on center line.    2 cents worth for free
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« Reply #4 on: October 12, 2005, 05:21:12 AM »
LesBrooks-Glad to have you around. Hope alls well with you and yours..
You are certaainly correct about center/level being different for different people.
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Offline John Traveler1

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« Reply #5 on: October 12, 2005, 04:55:56 PM »
A hearty second welcome greeting to You!  I also wish that all is well with you and your family.

Gentlemen,

Mr Brooks recently made available a CD documenting some of the projects in his long gunsmithing career.  Those rifle stocks and checkering jobs are simply GORGEOUS!  Plus, he shared tool ideas and construction details of a stock duplicating machine of his own design.  If you have any interest at all in custom rifles, stock designs, or simply like pictures of beautiful guns,  request his CD.  The modest price is well worth it!

John
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Offline Les Brooks

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« Reply #6 on: October 12, 2005, 05:29:17 PM »
Hello John Traveler,

I have been away and not trying to do much lately.  When we get older our bones break and I took a fall off the 2nd step on a ladder and broke my left wrist.  That has keep my down, but I am up and starting on some new project info.  Today I routed probably my last stock for myself.  I am making a Mex 98 243 and a video of the machine at work to demo how my machine operates.  I am making a new DVD of this project and also a checkering and carving DVD of how I worked.  I hope that this will help some of the younger fellows get an interest in stockmaking.  As you know I have made all types of stocks with checkering and carving patterns.  This is a gun for the grandson and I don,t believe it was on the CD.

Did you make a machine from the CD?
 
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