A friend of mine came to me with a problem:
He has one of those Ramline .22 pistols with broken firing pin.
Ramline is out of business and no one has parts.. I'm left with fabricating a new one.
Problems and questions--
-Half of it is missing so it won't be a simple matter of copying the old one. I am comfortable that I could "cut to shape, file to fit, paint to match" but would be a lot easier if I could find some published measurements or if someone had one that could give me some measurements... I know that both of those requests are long shots.
-Can anyone help me think of a good, readily available material to make it out of? Something hard but not brittle. Maybe made out of a ground down, used tool of some kind (cold chisel or punch)? Or buy and alter a close match? (it looks a lot like a 10/22 firing pin)
Also, I'm not interested in any sermons regarding safety and "original parts only" etc... unless you really do have a valid point.
He has one of those Ramline .22 pistols with broken firing pin.
Ramline is out of business and no one has parts.. I'm left with fabricating a new one.
Problems and questions--
-Half of it is missing so it won't be a simple matter of copying the old one. I am comfortable that I could "cut to shape, file to fit, paint to match" but would be a lot easier if I could find some published measurements or if someone had one that could give me some measurements... I know that both of those requests are long shots.
-Can anyone help me think of a good, readily available material to make it out of? Something hard but not brittle. Maybe made out of a ground down, used tool of some kind (cold chisel or punch)? Or buy and alter a close match? (it looks a lot like a 10/22 firing pin)
Also, I'm not interested in any sermons regarding safety and "original parts only" etc... unless you really do have a valid point.