| Author |
Message |
| < 16ga. Guns ~ My new (old) Sterly misfires |
|
 Posted:
Tue Mar 27, 2007 10:14 am
|
|
|
Member
Joined: 12 Mar 2005
Posts: 6535
Location: massachusetts
|
|
Leave it to a doctor to over simplify what amounts to brain surgery.   Just give it a well aimed squirt of WD in each striker hole, wait a few minutes, and then give the holes a blast of compressed air.
My ex-wife claimed the same procedure would have worked on me to clear out the crap in my skull. What she did not realize was that all the hot air she blew in my ear just made me deaf--to her. |
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
| Posted:
Tue Mar 27, 2007 11:35 am
|
|
|
Member
Joined: 01 Jan 2007
Posts: 1043
Location: Bozeman, MT
|
|
| txshootist wrote: |
Well, I have made a decision to have the gun worked on locally. Just up the road about 5 minutes, in Plano, there is a gunsmith who is very comfortable working on Sterlies. We talked a bit about the teardown procedure, etc., and he knew exactly how to proceed. When I asked how much for a thorough cleaning, he said $45. I hope I haven't let my cheap Scottish heritage get the best of me. That was a bargain in my opinion. I could do $45 worth of damage in a second by trying to do the work myself. He has a 2 month backlog of work, so it won't be ready until May or June. I was hoping to have it by our North Texas Shoot in late April. Oh well, the Elsie and Model 12 will have to suffice. He also said that parts were readily available if it came to that.
I will report back in a couple of months with the results. Hopefully we will have discovered another good double gunsmith on which to depend.
Aye laddie, I can relate to the Scottish spirit of cheap!!  sounds good!
Marc
|
|
_________________
"Life is what happens to you while you're making other plans"....... anonymous |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Posted:
Tue Mar 27, 2007 11:38 am
|
|
|
Member
Joined: 12 Mar 2005
Posts: 6535
Location: massachusetts
|
|
| Yup. when all else fails, read the directions, then take it to someone who understands the damned directions. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Posted:
Tue Mar 27, 2007 11:52 am
|
|
|
Member
Joined: 01 Jan 2007
Posts: 1043
Location: Bozeman, MT
|
|
| 16gaugeguy wrote: |
|
Yup. when all else fails, read the directions, then take it to someone who understands the damned directions.
|
hey 16gg, I tried that fibreglass reenforcement suggestion of yours in a hollowed stock that developed a crack, and it worked slick..... thanks,
brit |
_________________
"Life is what happens to you while you're making other plans"....... anonymous |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Posted:
Wed Mar 28, 2007 4:51 am
|
|
|
Member
Joined: 12 Mar 2005
Posts: 6535
Location: massachusetts
|
|
| glad to hear it. It semed the sensable thing to do. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Posted:
Wed Mar 28, 2007 6:44 am
|
|
|
Member
Joined: 01 Jan 2007
Posts: 1043
Location: Bozeman, MT
|
|
| 16gaugeguy wrote: |
|
glad to hear it. It semed the sensable thing to do.
|
you're my hero....  |
_________________
"Life is what happens to you while you're making other plans"....... anonymous |
|
|
|
|
|
|
