Dedicated revolver cleaning vise
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Thanks for pics guys...maybe one day,just getting halfway used to this cell phone,my first.
Anyway,wood is such a great material for applications like this.Maple as Tom reported on is a personal favorite.Be aware that it's very easy to install threaded inserts into wood,especially Maple.
Take a pce of scrap,drill a 64th over what the drill call out is for a tap.Then tap it,no lube or a little BW.Run some tests on drill size.
The inserts are available in steel and brass....or make your own from a N.C. bolt.Drill/tap the center to whatever you want.Then epoxy the insert in and get on with the program.
If trying to hide the insert;after install,glue a cover pce of,usually contrasting wood but can also be composites over the install.Obviously with a hole for the dolt.It adds a bit of insurance to jerking out the insert.Think "additive" process....glue lam that has an insert or "tension rod",or whatever buried in the laminations.
Anyway,wood is such a great material for applications like this.Maple as Tom reported on is a personal favorite.Be aware that it's very easy to install threaded inserts into wood,especially Maple.
Take a pce of scrap,drill a 64th over what the drill call out is for a tap.Then tap it,no lube or a little BW.Run some tests on drill size.
The inserts are available in steel and brass....or make your own from a N.C. bolt.Drill/tap the center to whatever you want.Then epoxy the insert in and get on with the program.
If trying to hide the insert;after install,glue a cover pce of,usually contrasting wood but can also be composites over the install.Obviously with a hole for the dolt.It adds a bit of insurance to jerking out the insert.Think "additive" process....glue lam that has an insert or "tension rod",or whatever buried in the laminations.
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freebullet
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Use guys much more serious bout cleaning wheel guns than I intend to ever be.
Maybe why I prefer ss.
Maybe why I prefer ss.
Pistolero
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Wow. I am just not cool. I hold the frame bbl junction in my left hand and brush the cylinders out a couple strokes each, then a
patch a couple strokes each. Flip it around and grip the bbl and push the brush through it about 5-10 times, a couple of
patches and wipe down.
I just haven't been putting enough effort or thought into it, clearly.
Bill
patch a couple strokes each. Flip it around and grip the bbl and push the brush through it about 5-10 times, a couple of
patches and wipe down.
I just haven't been putting enough effort or thought into it, clearly.
Bill
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Made two,wasn't much of a project,heck...takes longer to make dinner some evenings'.Used profiled maple with glued on leather.....
But,and here's where it starts to get interesting.What the effort did do,because it was so dang easy,is fire off a few synapses once the idea of, "profiles" in wood,covered with leather is so easy.
The top on my heavy front BR rest may become the next target.Presently it's a more or less std Protektor varmint stock,leather lace on.Which works decent enough.But have always wanted one of those tops that the sides are adj to apply tension on the forend.So,am gonna make one using what was learned from the OP vise thing.The wood is no problem,it's going in the furnace if it isn't used.And leather is also cheap/cheap.Buy used handbags from yard sales and Goodwill for pennies....just make sure your wife is with you.You can also get it off fleabay.Have made several holsters this way.
But,and here's where it starts to get interesting.What the effort did do,because it was so dang easy,is fire off a few synapses once the idea of, "profiles" in wood,covered with leather is so easy.
The top on my heavy front BR rest may become the next target.Presently it's a more or less std Protektor varmint stock,leather lace on.Which works decent enough.But have always wanted one of those tops that the sides are adj to apply tension on the forend.So,am gonna make one using what was learned from the OP vise thing.The wood is no problem,it's going in the furnace if it isn't used.And leather is also cheap/cheap.Buy used handbags from yard sales and Goodwill for pennies....just make sure your wife is with you.You can also get it off fleabay.Have made several holsters this way.