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saab-bob 02-25-2015 11:47 AM

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Hello Gents
Got some more pics of my gun.
1 pic is back of frame-no sign of the toggle hitting hard?
2-pic of extractor and firing pin in breech block
3-pic of firing pin tip
Thanks again for all the help.:)
You folks are the best!
Bob

rhuff 02-25-2015 02:19 PM

In photo #2, it really shows the breechface depression.....unless the photo is tricking my eyes.

ithacaartist 02-26-2015 11:50 AM

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Originally Posted by sheepherder (Post 267997)
How about if it was extensively dry fired, and the owner tried to remove the resulting 'ridge' by use of a round stone in a drill...or even a drill bit... :(

It all looks smooth and regular, although a slightly different color than the rest of the flat surface there. I'm doubting a rotatory stone or burr..maybe a drill bit sharpened at a verrrrry shallow angle (which, itself, would be hard to center?), but a long time ago because the area does show some "age" in the pics. The base of the cone of the f.p.'s tip looks a little gnarly in the pics, how much dry firing would be necessary to achieve this?

Perhaps an experiment is in order. Pounding a sacrificial firing pin repeatedly into a sacrificial breech block would answer a lot of questions. As I understood it up until now, the damage risked by dry-firing was that the tip of the f.P. would work harden and become more brittle--enough to snap the tip off with the shock and momentum involved in the dry-fire. I'm still skeptical that a cone pounded into a cone would produce the mushrooming/upsetting around the hole.

Sergio Natali 02-26-2015 02:35 PM

I'm my opinion it's very unlikely that an expanding primer can cause the indent in the breech face.
IMHO

Sergio

aldo35 02-26-2015 05:51 PM

Breach Deformation
 
I have a hard time visualizing dry firing causing this deformation. I would think dry firing would have caused the deformation to be convex not concave.

Aldo35


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