$4000 hand made Broomhandle

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by alvin

Did the mentor explain why? Astra 900 series had barrel installed at this location.

The Astra chamber was split???

It was quite a while back...IIRC, it had to do with different expansion rates of dissimilar alloys...I suppose, if your headspace is only .004", it wouldn't take much to throw it off...

Thinking about this particular barrel, we don't know which end was threaded internally and which was threaded externally...or if it was even threaded (might have been just a brazed/silver soldered joint)...

Or the chamber may not be bisected...it may have a long threaded/brazed stub...

...If it is indeed a new barrel...

I've seen auctions that stated the C96 barrel had been relined...I have a section of 9mm liner material downstairs, and although it is pretty thin itself, there wouldn't be much "meat" left in the barrel after boring it to take the liner...I'm leery of brazing/silver soldering a liner in...

Do you have a pic of that Astra barrel, how it has the split chamber??? I'm looking at the cutaway of the Astra 600 in the NRA Firearms Assembly book, and it looks similar to a Colt 1911 barrel...I don't see what you mean...