Bolt Handles

[z1r]

Been up to my ears in bolt handles lately. I had two jobs recently to fix the handles that were installed by some well known smiths. Both were botched.

 

Here is a before pic of one:

 

 

What you can't really see form the pic is the file marks all over, the weld spallter on the bolt body, and the fact that the angle of attachment is all wrong. It wouldn't even clear a scope in a set of HIGH Talley's. Then, as an after thought, he took the grinder to the handle but again the angle was all wrong.

 

I managed to salvage the $150 bolt handle and reweld it cleaning up all the voids and pits in the original.

 

Here is the after pic:

 

 

Here are three more I just did for another customer. He wanted all three different.

 

 

Here is one I did for another gent:

 

 

And I just started on two more Yugo bolts.

[Clark]

Z1R,

Your fancy pictures got me to buy a TIG welder.

It takes more skill than bending bolts