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Here i was thinking you were posting about Jeep CJ’s.
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Thats nice work. How many hours do you figure you have into the conversion. Todd
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A similar spring on my circa 1900 Parker Damascus 20 gauge broke when I was a teenager (long ago and far away in Borger, Texas) and I took the gun to a local gunsmith. He made a new leaf spring to replace the broken one.
After buying Parker reproductions in 20 and 12 gauge made in Japan, I only shoot the Damascus gun a few times a year now and the spring is still intact.
Thank goodness for competent gunsmiths!
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I made 1 flat spring while in school, I don't remember all the details but we forged the stock, then shaped /fit before heat treat in oil and temper in molten lead. Happy to say my spring didn't break!
Your projects are always interesting, and THANKS so much for sharing them.
In another life I think I was talented enough to do such things, but in this life, I'm just a 'follower' - still pretty cool to read about them, and think about 'someday....if I live long enough, and have the time, and the patience, and could LEARN all the stuff to do those things'....
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Thanks for sharing. As a tinkerer of SAAs and old Winchesters there was a time when I made a few leaf springs but I've never tried one of those folded ones. Good looking fix. My congratulations.
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GunnyMack wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2019 5:15 am
I made 1 flat spring while in school, I don't remember all the details but we forged the stock, then shaped /fit before heat treat in oil and temper in molten lead. Happy to say my spring didn't break!
Doing it that way, it should be able to cut buggy axles.
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I guess no one caught my Richtig remark. He was a blacksmith who supposedly used molten lead to temper his knives after the quench. His actual method is not really known, but his knives were known to be pounded with a hammer to cut up horseshoes and immediately after cutting through the horseshoe they would shave paper.
Thread drift over.
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Advanced is being able to do the basics while your leg is on fire---Bill Jeans
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up---Robert Frost
