Reproduction Snail Drum - progress

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by KABAR2

Well late this afternoon was a happy day a package from GPC arrived inside was another box.... it showed that is is one of GT's revisions

They look like nice pictures. It's a shame that future members of this forum will never see them.

[KABAR2]

Thanks GT I will try your method later today and report back

Originally Posted by sheepherder

They look like nice pictures. It's a shame that future members of this forum will never see them.

Why wouldn't "future members" not see them?

[DonVoigt]

Originally Posted by KABAR2

Thanks GT I will try your method later today and report back





Why wouldn't "future members" not see them?

Because they are hosted on an outside server!
Please go to the trouble to upload them to the forum - that way they will be here.

Links to outside server pictures or hosts disappear for different reasons, but with great regularity. And reading old posts and not so old posts with "picture not found" is not extremely helpful.

You went to a lot of trouble to do good pictures and a great write up- it would be a shame to lose its impact.

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by DonVoigt

Because they are hosted on an outside server!
Please go to the trouble to upload them to the forum - that way they will be here.

Links to outside server pictures or hosts disappear for different reasons, but with great regularity. And reading old posts and not so old posts with "picture not found" is not extremely helpful.

You went to a lot of trouble to do good pictures and a great write up- it would be a shame to lose its impact.

Here's an example -

[KABAR2]

Originally Posted by sheepherder

Here's an example -

Good point I've been doing it old school from the time that forums didn't provide photo hosting, I'll edit with photos hosted here... Though I have maintained my photos since around 2002 so there are some pretty oily threads out there with my photos .... But still a good idea to put them here I can free up space on my storage then

[G.T.]

BTW, in looking over the pictures again, the problem may be the mag release button?... Remove it from the frame, and see if the mag fits unimpeded.... It looks like that, more so than frame issues?..... Also, there is considerable variance in the P.08 mag catch parts as well.... just a thought....GT....

[KABAR2]

Originally Posted by G.T.

BTW, in looking over the pictures again, the problem may be the mag release button?... Remove it from the frame, and see if the mag fits unimpeded.... It looks like that, more so than frame issues?..... Also, there is considerable variance in the P.08 mag catch parts as well.... just a thought....GT....

GT,

That was one of the things I did remove the mag release.... Made no difference ended up doing a combination of things

1) miked Luger mag and snail drum nose to have a base line as to clearance
2) squeezed drum nose as suggested this also widened it slightly front to rear so it began binding in new areas
3) smoked mag to see where it was binding
4) stoned polished top area of mag well
5) sanded polished round part of the mag nose
6) sanded polished back corners of top of mag
7) noted some small bit of galling on roll crimp rib at top edge light filing/polishing also polished slot in mag well

What this accomplished was allowing mag to seat and lock up with mag release function tested with 4 dummy rounds worked fine, mag is tight but with firm grip pulls out don't need a mallet to remove it 🙂 ..... I may do a little more polishing after a little range time .... One area that had some high spots/dimples was in the relieved rounded inside part of the mag well these were caused when the front strap was stamped with unit markings these dimples actually had rubmarks from magazines.... So I took these down with a half round needle file will add some photo's when I get time at the computer

Here are the added photo's for this thread:











Success!

[KABAR2]

Originally Posted by sheepherder

They look like nice pictures. It's a shame that future members of this forum will never see them.

Fixed photo's they are now onsite rather than an independent photo host

[KABAR2]

There was one pleasant surprise..... it actually had the "B-slash-N" mark hiding under the lever..... which seems to be missing in all the photo's I have seen of this reproduction mag.





Also I have added photo's to the mag fitting that I described above......