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My garage is my shop as well.
Ah me, for the good old days of riding the soft tail.
I still got a few good rides left in me. It's awful watching all my friends and relatives give up riding. I know my time is coming but I'll try and keep my knees in the wind as long as I can. The only thing I've done longer is breathe.
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Have a problem that needs a tool, 50 cal 28 inch TC barrel with a bore brush that broke off at the breach. Alumnum instead of brass end came off. Any idea how to retrieve it?
 
First try and screw the threaded end back on the back of the brush. This has worked fro me a few times then keep twisitng to keep the pieces screwed together. Next try a patch worm. It works on picking up a patch and jag. Not sure about a brush.
Failing that a tube that just fits in the barrel can be pushed over the brush from behind and then just pulled out. Works if it is not a patent breach.

Good luck and keep us posted.
 
Hey Zonie, in post #3 I mention a ‘mill bast.ard’ file and the system saw it as a ‘dirty word’ and changed it to ‘mill guy’ file. May I suggest that ‘bast.ard’ be struck from the naughty word list. Seems a common file used for gun building should get a pass.
Particularly in this sub forum...
 
Lawrence A . Has some clues. good thinking Lawrence. If a long tube cant be found a metallic unmentionable case bored out the primer threaded to a suitable rod might have to grind off the rim but should work or worth a try . Can you take out the nipple fill the breach up with fine powder and shoot the brush out? particularly if an unmentionable case is rammed over the contacting bristles

Re eIigitimate files ,This is a serious matter ! . Cant have second cut Ilegitimat files getting obliterated .Too use full ( & maybe just too silly ? ) But ide guess its just the E machines being simple souls having sheltered lives .Well you don't see many being used in the rain do you . Rudyard
 
Hey Zonie, in post #3 I mention a ‘mill bast.ard’ file and the system saw it as a ‘dirty word’ and changed it to ‘mill guy’ file. May I suggest that ‘bast.ard’ be struck from the naughty word list. Seems a common file used for gun building should get a pass.
Particularly in this sub forum...
I'll see what I can do. The forum management was trying to improve the forum and didn't know that the word does have some non nasty uses.

I don't have access to the stuff that makes the forum run so I can't fix it myself.
 
One small piece of advise for using this, or most other types of vise for gunbuilding. Put a nice folded rag below the jaws as shown so if the stock slips while rasping, sanding, carving or otherwise putting pressure on the butt end of the stock you don’t get a pair of dings in your pretty wood. Ask me how I know.

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I don't have to ask!!!
 
We have faith in you.
Bob's Mill bastard file has now returned to the living.

I had a devil of a time trying to tell Angie what the problem was because every time I used that word the forum software would change it to read, "guy".
That ended up with my post reading something like, "Angie. You need to restore the word guy so it will read guy. Right now, it's being changed by the software to "guy" so a members post that should say "Mill guy file" says "Mill guy file".
In order to actually write the word so she would understand what I was talking about, I ended up putting a space between each letter.
Computers are so stupid. :)
 
Bob's Mill bastard file has now returned to the living.

I had a devil of a time trying to tell Angie what the problem was because every time I used that word the forum software would change it to read, "guy".
That ended up with my post reading something like, "Angie. You need to restore the word guy so it will read guy. Right now, it's being changed by the software to "guy" so a members post that should say "Mill guy file" says "Mill guy file".
In order to actually write the word so she would understand what I was talking about, I ended up putting a space between each letter.
Computers are so stupid. :)

Thanks Zonie. I must admit I was the tiniest bit tempted to post an adolescent text to test the software.....but, alas, adulthood prevailed.....
 
As someone who has "illegitimate" stamped on their first birth certificate (my second, adoption certificate, doesn't) I couldn't care less whether someone uses the word "bastard" on this forum.
 
The forum has youngsters who visit it as well as people who strongly object to what they consider as profane words so, it tries to keep threads free of them.

Because someone strongly objected to the use of the word, "bastard" in a thread, the forum Administrator decided that word should be added to the software's list of censored words.
 
LuVerne .. no human being is illegitimate ...

Meh. No skin off my back. It's more a humble brag about having been born in an era where there were standards, albeit seen as antiquated and cruel by modern standards(?), and having developed perspective as to how a piece of paper doesn't define me.

And to praise an extremely young lady in a bad situation who chose to give me a chance at life.

Anyway, bad words never hurt me none.
 
Meh. No skin off my back. It's more a humble brag about having been born in an era where there were standards, albeit seen as antiquated and cruel by modern standards(?), and having developed perspective as to how a piece of paper doesn't define me.

And to praise an extremely young lady in a bad situation who chose to give me a chance at life.

Anyway, bad words never hurt me none.


Amen sir, Amen
 
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