Well almost anyways..
I was building a Bulgy 74 on a OOW receiver.. Well let me tell you this wasn't as easy as I thought..
Yesterday I located and drilled the front trunnion holes. The I used Naval Jelly to sort of etch the receiver for paint..
Then I painted with Low Gloss Black Duplicolor from the auto parts store, $3.99, Then I baked it in the oven at 300 for 2 hours(it didn't stink the house up like I thought it would), It turned out great.. The paint matched close to the parts kit, not exact but really close..
I painted just the receiver as a test to see how it would turn out if I didn't refinish the whole rifle...
Well that was the easy part...
Today, I used plinker762's rivet jig.. The jig works pretty good, only it takes a while to set everything up..
I did the countersunk rivets first and all was going very well until...I moved to the center front trunnion rivets.. The anvil in the press arm was too big to properly squeeze the center rivets and I ended up pushing trunnion and receiver into the bucking blocks, I put two small dents in the rec but I can live with it, they are hard to notice...oh well, this was a learning build..
Next I pressed on the bbl, with Xebec's press block set, all went great here, had a little trouble getting the cross pin back... No biggie..
Next I located the holes for the rear trunnion, now this is were things turned to shit...
I got the cross rivet hole off, buggerd up the receiver a little.. I fixed it and mostly it is finish damage now...
The only thing, with the rear trunnion in place, and not riveted the carrier went in and operated smooth.. Now that I squashed the rivets, it is tight to get in and operate..
Question, is it ok to file the top rails down a little??
I think when it set the rivets in the rear, it pulled the receiver a little tight and that is what the carrier is hanging on....
The only other thing I have left to do is fit the saftey, I just don't have the energy today.. Been working on this since 9am...
Thanks for all your help, I hope my next build goes better.....
I was building a Bulgy 74 on a OOW receiver.. Well let me tell you this wasn't as easy as I thought..
Yesterday I located and drilled the front trunnion holes. The I used Naval Jelly to sort of etch the receiver for paint..
Then I painted with Low Gloss Black Duplicolor from the auto parts store, $3.99, Then I baked it in the oven at 300 for 2 hours(it didn't stink the house up like I thought it would), It turned out great.. The paint matched close to the parts kit, not exact but really close..
I painted just the receiver as a test to see how it would turn out if I didn't refinish the whole rifle...
Well that was the easy part...
Today, I used plinker762's rivet jig.. The jig works pretty good, only it takes a while to set everything up..
I did the countersunk rivets first and all was going very well until...I moved to the center front trunnion rivets.. The anvil in the press arm was too big to properly squeeze the center rivets and I ended up pushing trunnion and receiver into the bucking blocks, I put two small dents in the rec but I can live with it, they are hard to notice...oh well, this was a learning build..
Next I pressed on the bbl, with Xebec's press block set, all went great here, had a little trouble getting the cross pin back... No biggie..
Next I located the holes for the rear trunnion, now this is were things turned to shit...
I got the cross rivet hole off, buggerd up the receiver a little.. I fixed it and mostly it is finish damage now...
The only thing, with the rear trunnion in place, and not riveted the carrier went in and operated smooth.. Now that I squashed the rivets, it is tight to get in and operate..
Question, is it ok to file the top rails down a little??
I think when it set the rivets in the rear, it pulled the receiver a little tight and that is what the carrier is hanging on....
The only other thing I have left to do is fit the saftey, I just don't have the energy today.. Been working on this since 9am...
Thanks for all your help, I hope my next build goes better.....