bothenook
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putting a Traditions Trapper kit together. Piece of expletive deleted, and i'll never buy anything from that company again after the recent dealing with this kit and the company trying to deal with boogered up parts NIB. It was like they emptied the reject barrel filling orders, and my kit was one of those.
So here I am, fitting the parts to determine just how much wood a wood chuck would chuck if he was shaping a stock, and decided to just "tweek" the trigger guard to make it fit better in the pre-cut stock. Beeeeg mistake, broke the damned thing right at the screw hole. Imagine my dismay, since the force exerted was nowhere near what should have been the brittle fracture limit.
So...any ideas on repair or replacement? I am having the devil's own time finding a place that carries replacement parts. The bow is big enough to accommodate a double trigger (why I got the kit in the first place). Brass has too much lead in it to heat it hot enough to solder/braze it together without getting brittle, if my dusty old metallurgy class memory is valid.
Checked the usual suspects, Traditions, Track, Dixie, Mid-South, Numrich, Brownells, Midway, and a number of others that I followed down the google rabbit hole. I even looked at Cabelas, which was a mistake, because I saw a sweeeeeet 1858 that looks like it might have my name on the box...
I'm thinking I'll have to get a double trigger guard casting for something like a hawken, and cut it down and bend it. Yeah? Nope? Hoping for some expertise.
some days it just makes me wish I was interested in stamp collecting instead.......
So here I am, fitting the parts to determine just how much wood a wood chuck would chuck if he was shaping a stock, and decided to just "tweek" the trigger guard to make it fit better in the pre-cut stock. Beeeeg mistake, broke the damned thing right at the screw hole. Imagine my dismay, since the force exerted was nowhere near what should have been the brittle fracture limit.
So...any ideas on repair or replacement? I am having the devil's own time finding a place that carries replacement parts. The bow is big enough to accommodate a double trigger (why I got the kit in the first place). Brass has too much lead in it to heat it hot enough to solder/braze it together without getting brittle, if my dusty old metallurgy class memory is valid.
Checked the usual suspects, Traditions, Track, Dixie, Mid-South, Numrich, Brownells, Midway, and a number of others that I followed down the google rabbit hole. I even looked at Cabelas, which was a mistake, because I saw a sweeeeeet 1858 that looks like it might have my name on the box...
I'm thinking I'll have to get a double trigger guard casting for something like a hawken, and cut it down and bend it. Yeah? Nope? Hoping for some expertise.
some days it just makes me wish I was interested in stamp collecting instead.......