rigby hammer repair

[fleener]

This rifle I purchased a few weeks ago. It had a broken hammer spur. I wanted to restore the hammer back to original condition. I don't have the talent to do this work, but the great thing is I know a guy that does have the talent.

The hammer is currently at the engravers, and then off to be color cased.

The pictures speak for themselves.

Fleener

 

[bpd303]

Outstanding job.

 

[M. De Land]

Nice job, a good TIG weld is hard to beat for such precision work and will be stronger than the parent metal if done well. Mike D.

 

[Metalshaper]

Art,

Who did the welding?

Respect Always
Metalshaper/Jonathan
aka Dagwood

 

[fleener]

not sure who did the welding. I can ask, you looking for a guy?

art

 

[Metalshaper]

not sure who did the welding. I can ask, you looking for a guy?

art

Nahhh, just curious? :grin:


Respect Always
Dag

 

[fleener]

did not have Marlow do it. No doubt that he could but then I would be tasked with trying to make it look right.

I could shape a spur, but know I could not do it as good as Jim Westberg. Fiquired the Rigby was not the one to practice on.

See you in Sept.?

Fleener

 

[Rifleman1776]

Beautiful job. With the rapid growth of use and popularity of 3-D printers, I believe we will soon see many reproductions and repairs made with the help of those printers. The item to be replicated can be scanned and programmed into the printer. It is printed then the plastic replica can be utilized for 'lost wax' types of steel casting to give an exact replica.

 

[Metalshaper]

See you in Sept.?

Fleener

Fleener,

Depends on my foot/ankle? Just got released to crutches and 50% weight bearing. I have a couple weeks on them and then "Trying" to walk full pressure, while still wearing the boot.. After the Dr sees how that goes, I may get to move on to a brace and PT! which means I only have 2-3 weeks ambulatory time before your event..

< Not to mention I haven't even SEEN my shop in nearly 2 months >

Respect Always
Metalshaper/Jonathan

 

[44-henry]

3D printing in that application has potential, but first you have to have one capable of decent resolution and the cheapest ones that I know of that I would trust to that kind of work start at $20,000 and go up rapidly from there. You also have to have a decent 3D scanner and appropriate software to refine and work with the scan and scale it up appropriately to account for shrinkage in the casting process, all of this and the know how to use it properly. A good setup could easily run $50,000+ and there would still be the problem of finding a foundry to cast a few parts in steel.

Great potential for sure, but it will, I'm afraid, remain cost prohibitive for some time to come.

 

[fleener]

I actually was looking into the 3D printers for making a replacement hammer. But ended up getting a Rigby replacement hammer that was very close copy of the original. I fitted it, had the back of the hammer milled to take the half cock safety, but ended up getting the original fixed. Fixing the original is more costly, but it should look great.

Fleener

 

[Rifleman1776]

I did say "with rapid growth".
Besides, you can afford one of the good ones. :wink: :rotf: