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 Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2011 6:24 pm |
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| Slavia |
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My Crosman 1008 never did work very well, and got worse with age. The two clamshells were held together with "wood" type screws bedded in the plastic, and repeated assembly/disassembly took its toll on the plastic threads. I solved that by drilling all the way through to the other side and using machine screws with "T" nuts.
Both the screw heads and nuts were shaped by spinning them in a drill and grinding/cutting with a Dremel. A bath of muriatic acid removed the zinc plating and they were cold blued. (Zinc doesn't blue well.) Both sides were counterbored so the screw heads and nuts would sit flush:
I didn't succeed in making it work better, but it's screwed together pretty good. Maybe the technique will work for you:
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| Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 6:42 pm |
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| GeepII |
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Very good idea Slavia I will keep that in mind in case I run into something like this. Thanks for sharing.
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