8-28-15 UPDATED: Pictures 1906 Navy basket case project, fini!

[DonVoigt]

Originally Posted by 4 Scale

As far as your side plate goes, you might ask Charles about that. I asked him once about TIG welding and he mentioned he has access to that. Perhaps you could adopt just the side plate as a project and weld in the larger pits you cannot sand or file out. Even when you cannot restore an entire piece, there is satisfaction to be had by doing a part of it.

That is a possibility, but I think I'm ok with the progress so far on
"improving" the side plate. A completely "pit free" side plate would not look right either.

I also found and re-strawed a commercially numbered take down lever, which looks much better to me.

Current status and before pictures below.

I need to do a little more work on the side plate to straighten up the raised part.