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Bolt Forging Adventures


drgoose

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OK, so over the weekend I did my first bolt bending. I used bronwell's forging blocks and heat sink, brownell's heat pase and a Harbor Freight oxyacetylen torch as instructed.

 

On my first attempt apparently I used WAY TO MUCH heat paste, not that it hurt but apparently just a waste and I was very concerned about not getting the root of the bolt to hot. Little did I know that THAT WAS EXACTLY what I needed to get hot, so after bending, the bolt obviously did not clear the scope. It looked really nice but did not work.

 

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so after speaking with Tanglewood, I went back to the forging blocks, with less paste and after grinding the root round. This time it came out much better.

 

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Another lesson learned is that I should do this with the scope installed and check the clearance of the bolt handle before starting to file and polish the bolt. (I learned that the hard way)

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