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Safety replacement pins I made, before & after pics
« on: July 13, 2008, 07:13:15 AM »
I made a couple safety replacement pins out of 304 stainless steel on a Lathe and Bridgeport for my 1895GS.
They turned out pretty good and work great.

A couple pics of the pins before I installed them. The pin on the right is standing on end to show the slot so to look like a screw when installed on the receiver (see very bottom pic).



Some before pics with the safety still intact on the rifle



The after pics with the replacement pin.



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Re: Safety replacement pins I made, before & after pics
« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2008, 06:36:18 PM »
Nice job!  It sucks not being handy. :'(  DP.
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Re: Safety replacement pins I made, before & after pics
« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2008, 05:06:15 PM »
The screw slot looks a little off center in the first pic.  Probably camera angle, but you can never tell. If you will ship me the whole gun around Nov. 1 I'll look it over real close and ship it back in a couple weeks.
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Re: Safety replacement pins I made, before & after pics
« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2008, 12:46:00 AM »
nice. did you cut a notch in it so that it can be locked in place by the ball detent spring and ball  ?
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Re: Safety replacement pins I made, before & after pics
« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2008, 02:49:12 AM »
Lloyd,
No notch, but if you look at the pics there's a spot drilled hole, to the left of the milled out slot, that I did with a center drill to seat the ball and spring so it locks it in place. I just eyeballed it to around .100" in diameter.
Not the best pics, I know  :'(


The screw slot looks a little off center in the first pic.  Probably camera angle, but you can never tell. If you will ship me the whole gun around Nov. 1 I'll look it over real close and ship it back in a couple weeks.

Yeah it's just the pics...they're a little blurry and could be the angle?
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Re: Safety replacement pins I made, before & after pics
« Reply #5 on: August 04, 2008, 04:34:44 PM »
Looks good!! Screw slot NICE touch!! Hide it with what you expect to see... another screw. Nice VERY NICE Kudos to you!!

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Re: Safety replacement pins I made, before & after pics
« Reply #6 on: August 08, 2008, 05:12:48 AM »
Nice work!  I have no such skills.  I buy older Marlins without the CBS.  :-\
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Re: Safety replacement pins I made, before & after pics
« Reply #7 on: August 13, 2008, 10:08:53 AM »
Thanks for the kind words guys.
I drilled and tapped these and then added a saddle ring for a little bit of a custom look.

336A with a blued safety replacement pin


And my 1895GS with the stainless pin and a blued saddle ring
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