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If you have a lead pot for pouring, you can "draw back the temper" in the pot. Get the temp up to melting, wrap the hard spring in foil, push to the bottom of the pot, wait 30 minutes and fish it out. Continue to make ball with the hot lead (what the heck, you got the lead hot anyway). Oh...

Have done several lock springs. Heat (MAPP) to critical - could never do the color thing so I use a magnet. When the steel goes non-magnetic (somewhere around straw color?) you hit critical and then you put to an oil bath and swirl. Wife yells at you for the stink (somehow I always do this in...

Oh yea, forgot... need a MAPP torch and a jewlers saw too, neither expensive and useful for other projects. Mike F

I got my stock from Brownells and this book from TOTW >> BOOK-SVS Simplified V Springs, easy home tempering instructions, by Kit Ravenshear . . . $5.99 >> in their gunsmithing book section. Used my lead pot to temper the springs. Paul V. is right, one or two to mess up and then it really is...

Captain: They will shoot, just not well. Mike\ F

Captain: Had one, converted it as a rebuild project, which turned out nice, but the touchhole is cross drilled at about 45 degrees up into and through the screw in breech, making for a 1/2 trip for the flame to get through to the main powder charge. Meaning a long whoosh then a bang. Not a...

t.l.a.r. eng: Same problems, same solutions. I swapped out the Uberti nipples for Tresco, very happy with the result. They look cool and work better. The Colt design wanted the arbor to bottom out on the base of the barrel arbor socket. If there is a gap between the arbor face and the...

Holy xxxx.... WOW! Now that is wire and inlay work! Done just enough wire and inlay work to know an artist when I see one! WOW! Mike F

t.l.a.r. eng: Had the same experence with the Walker loading lever spring. Fell out, staked it, fell out again. Seemed the dovetail was too big. Purchased a new spring to see if I could get a bigger base - nope. I really liked the gun and had done a bunch of work to make it a top notch...

If I might comment. Your cleaning proceedure was stated as follows: My cleaning procedure does involve the use of boiling water: 1.I fill the barrel from the kettle, leave for a minute and pour away. 2. Repeat. 3. Pour in up to 1/3rd of a barrel with boiling water. Scrub barrel with bronze...

I have used Lee Express Blue (put on hot and boiled)and it is as close to black as you can get. It is also one of the toughtest finishes I have ever seen. Mike F

Hi: I use Lee Express Blue. Goes on a warmed barrel, like Plum Brown, no waiting several hours for the brown to show up. Have to degrease the barrel and take it down fairly smooth - I did 300 grit. After application you put it straight into the scalding pipe (PCV affair) and add boiling...

I had one and converted it to a show piece for fun. Inlays, carving and such. Not much of a shooter, the touch hole was drilled at an angle to get up to the face of the breech plug. Must be 1/4 to a 1/2 inch long tunnel. Makes the pistol go > whoosh .... bang, >>> when it goes off...

OK, I am game, now, where do you buy one? Mike F

I use .451 target rifle for most target work. 90 grain of 2f, a 525 grain, flat bottomed, grease grooved bullet. All weighed. Mostly shoot prone with a sling. For offhand I use a .60 cal Hawken mounting a Goodoein barrel. 80 grain 2f, .600 round ball, .010 patch greased with mink oil. Mike F

hollow points!!!!, :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: ....added knowledge like that is why I love this sight. Mike F

Thank you all for your kind comments. Means something coming from you guys. Mike F

jr06: I use the Pedersoli 535 grain Grease Groove mold. The GM barrel pin gauges out at .450 even. The mold throws a .449 to .450 bullet. I got a .449 sizer from Lee, special order. The sizer just insures the bullet fits the barrel, no tight ones. The bullets all but drop down the barrel...

Titus: Birchwood Casey Try this link to ToTW: http://www.trackofthewolf.com/Categories/PartList.aspx?catID=5&subID=65&styleID=223 Mike F

Titus: On my Hawken I did the nose cap and rib in gray (Brass Black, then rubbed back with 0000 steel wool). Did it 'cause I thought it looked cool. Oil once in a while, never any rust. Nose Cap and Rib. You can see the color pretty good against the browned entry pipe. Butt Plate...