relining a barrel?

Jim Mac · 04-22-2019, 09:35 PM

I've got one of those mis matched broomhandle probably imported as a barrel of parts from China and cobbled together into a pistol. this thing has been bored to 9mm and it does shoot 9mm fine but the barrel seems awfully thin. can the barrel be put back to 7.63 with a liner? jim

ithacaartist · 04-24-2019, 01:13 PM

It certainly can be done. Just make sure you're OK with the cost/benefit, since this seems to be a mix-master. Those who've had it done can tell us how much it costs and the best place to have it done, I hope. Conversion to 9mm seems to have been common, so concern about the thinner barrel walls that result is probably not greatly warranted.

Jim Mac · 04-24-2019, 11:26 PM

I've shot maybe 40 rounds thru the pistol,.the 9mm flops around the mag well but functions fine. jim

Norme · 04-25-2019, 08:04 AM

If it ain't broke don't fix it.
Norm

DonVoigt · 04-25-2019, 08:46 AM

What Norm said, why pay $$ to have it changed to a caliber that costs more to shoot?
Someone paid already to have it bored to 9mm!

04-22-2019, 09:35 PM	#1
Jim Mac User Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 261 Thanks: 2 Thanked 67 Times in 35 Posts	relining a barrel? I've got one of those mis matched broomhandle probably imported as a barrel of parts from China and cobbled together into a pistol. this thing has been bored to 9mm and it does shoot 9mm fine but the barrel seems awfully thin. can the barrel be put back to 7.63 with a liner? jim

04-24-2019, 01:13 PM	#2
ithacaartist Twice a Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Atop the highest hill in Schuyler County NY Posts: 3,294 Thanks: 7,068 Thanked 2,489 Times in 1,327 Posts	It certainly can be done. Just make sure you're OK with the cost/benefit, since this seems to be a mix-master. Those who've had it done can tell us how much it costs and the best place to have it done, I hope. Conversion to 9mm seems to have been common, so concern about the thinner barrel walls that result is probably not greatly warranted. __________________ "... Liberty is the seed and soil, the air and light, the dew and rain of progress, love and joy."-- Robert Greene Ingersoll 1894

04-25-2019, 08:46 AM	#5
DonVoigt User Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: near Charlotte NC Posts: 4,678 Thanks: 1,441 Thanked 4,348 Times in 2,038 Posts	What Norm said, why pay $$ to have it changed to a caliber that costs more to shoot? Someone paid already to have it bored to 9mm! __________________ 03man(Don Voigt); Luger student and collector. Looking for DWM side plate: 69 ; Dreyse 1907 pistol K.S. Gendarmerie

04-24-2019, 11:26 PM	#3
Jim Mac User Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 261 Thanks: 2 Thanked 67 Times in 35 Posts	I've shot maybe 40 rounds thru the pistol,.the 9mm flops around the mag well but functions fine. jim

04-25-2019, 08:04 AM	#4
Norme Always A Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Colorado Posts: 2,416 Thanks: 225 Thanked 2,595 Times in 932 Posts	If it ain't broke don't fix it. Norm