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Anyone looked at putting a dot of 309 filler metal on the bottoms of nipples with big holes and then redrilling the tiny holes?
Nipple Repairs
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Not me. Just replace it.
I got a gun the other day that had the nipple drilled out quite a bit, my take is a little drilling is OK, if the blowback cocks your hammer, it is definitely time for a new nipple. I was shooting light charges in the gun but changed the nipple out with a new one anyway.
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Improving factory nipples to reduce back flow as well as returning worn nipples to service.
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Nipples are too cheap for me to not just put a new one on.Personally I want anything I have any control over to be as consistant as possible.Probably does not matter but need all the help I can get to keep everything the same when shooting.
That makes sense. And a lot cheaper than a set of Slixshots.
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With rifles that are made for heavy bullets, yeah, it would make a lot of sense to tighten up the holes.
Or with revolvers.
Or with revolvers.
Nipple repairs?........The struggle is real, am I right fellas?
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Where is the cost benefit? What is your time worth? Kind of like years back I got the bright idea I could save a lot of money by getting Siler lock kits and putting them together. Well unless you have a rather large chunk of money invested in equipment and tools the time involved in putting one together by hand with the minimum of equipment and tools comes out to be rather expensive.
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It seems like any sort of filler material would be destroyed by the heat and pressure almost immediately.
Before I retired as a tool and die maker I would make a "sholdered" liner for burned out nipples out of tool steel. They worked well and lasted longer than the original . It was precise work but I had the equipment to do it with. Ah the joys of third shift tool room.
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That sounds like an interesting "teensy" project. At least you weren't tying up the biggest lathe in the place!
If you dead set on doing it use hastalloy W rod.
No offense to ya 'nkbj', but it sounds like the project would be nothing but 'heartache and sorrow and the wailing and gnashing to teeth'. More power to ya for wanting to fix things without buying but IMO somethings are 'better left well alone'. Ifin yer into buying coffee at those high priced coffee outfits that dot the highways and malls on a daily basis, abstaining from them for a week or two would more than pay for a new set for a revolver, a couple of days for a rifle/shotgun.
