Welding Bolt Handle Remington 700

All in all the bolt handle in the common shop should be put back on using silver braze.

Welding bolt handle remington 700.

The process we use is a combination of welding and soldering. A friend just had the bolt handle of his 700 remington simply fall off while he was checking the trigger setting. Tig welding tunsten inert gas 2500 deg f and actual melting of steel with or without filler metal shielded by argon or other inert gas mixture. Amazing how little weld was holding that bolt to the body would have been ugly if it had broke while he was hunting.

Guess this is a true urban legend. Who do you guys suggest to weld on a remington 700 bolt handle. Page 2 of 2 prev 1 2. Jan 18 2005 messages.

Anybody else have this. Feb 27 2008 messages. Then they are threaded for knob extensions that can be bought or made. I made a fixture to hold the bolt in my lathe and the ball is turned off using a boring head.

Fully as strong as the base materials with some heat affected areas. I saw a rem 700 once at a gun show that had the recoil lug and bolt handle welded on it appeared to be eith stick or mig welded it was built way up and tried to be gound to look decient it was awfull you could still see some slag down in the weld if they diden t have enough since to weld it right i wonder how hot they got the front of. Discussion in gun project questions gunsmithing started by brad6ppc jan 18 2018. Tig welding on bolt handles by ssg.

Butchlambert site sponsor. Our bolt handle fitting process for the m700 restores the primary extraction feature after the action has been blueprinted. Firing pin so it won t need the boltface bushed later at additional cost. Fairbanks ak 99708.

Quantity discounts available for 5 bolt or more per shipping. Discussion in gun project questions gunsmithing started by brad6ppc jan 18 2018. This time i bought a new custom bolt from ptg that s ground to fit my action s bore dia and is already machined for a sako extractor as well as a good fit for the std. Here is a bolt i made and mig welded on my 1891 gew rifle.

Attaching ptg bolt handle to ptg bolt body with precision tig welding. Page 1 of 2 1 2 next brad6ppc silver contributor. Careful tig tungsten inert gas welding aids in joint reliability by creating a stronger union at the shear point between the bolt handle and bolt body. And i started threading remington 700 bolt knobs for extensions.

Attaching ptg bolt handle to ptg bolt body for use with 3 position safety 55. Pic 2 starting to round off knob pic 3 turning. 362 snowy owl ln. Remington 700 bolt handle welding.