drgoose Posted July 24, 2012 Report Share Posted July 24, 2012 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. 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. 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) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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