[Dean]

No hassle here, Rick. In fact, I must confess that I've been snipping all your posts and putting them into a file called "rickstips.txt" so I can refer to them later. I think between you and Howe's book I should be fine.

I'm thinking back on my milling error. The reason it happened was I was tired and I kept on working when I should have given it a rest. Maybe it was a "good thing" that this happened. I will now be much more aware of this when I tackle the barrel. Take my time.

Ron, Thanks a bundle, no rush on those measurements. I can't cut the wood until the stock iron is finished and I can't cut the lug on the luger (or the iron) until I have the new barrel installed. The barrel won't be here for another 3 weeks.

Spoke with the machinist at work today. A good part of his time is spent making stainless shafted rollers for the products we make (paper sorting equipment). He uses an interesting product from Locktite to bond the shafts to the larger rollers. I think it's locktite 696. For example, instead of machining a 1/2" bar down to 1/4" for the shaft portion, he instead bores the roller to a close fit onto a precision ground 1/4" shaft. He then uses this anerobic glue to bond the rollers to the shaft. He claims that it is a very secure bond, but it is imperative to have a very close fit between the two parts.

I was thinking I could use this to bond the rear sight sleave to the barrel instead of soldering it. I'm going to ask him about this tommorrow and see what he thinks. He dables in gunsmithing a bit. In fact, he used to own a few lugers at one time.