Stuff you made

[Wapiti]

Perentie sent me a fair-dinkum commercial action wrench, so I thought I'd show my home made one which looks decidedly amateur compared to his.
It's made from an M18 8.8 bolt, rough ground then filed down to slip into the action's locking lug areas, like the commercial ones.
I chose M18 because it's an almost wobble-less fit in the Rems, so there's optimum diameter and no twist. We're only talking up to 100 ft/lbs anyway.

I used the head as the locking lug section, being careful not to overheat the steel, then I'd have to reharden it or it might deform.
I also purchased an extra thick nut which screws down over the threaded section all the way. Then the excess thread was cut off and the nut welded on the end, so it wouldn't come undone.
The size I bought is still on the tag on the bag from Bolt and Nut Factory Online, these guys sell everything fastener and are in Brisbane I believe, Hemmant, and post all the strange bolts I need to me in a matter of days. You won't find bolts like this at Bunnings.
In theory, you could make an action wrench for any rifle action out there.

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[Duramax]

Replacement bolt shroud for the ill fitting one you get with the Bergara B14R. Made from 416 r stainless with a complete thread unlike the factory one shown. I see there are a few after market offerings now but none have the complete thread like the ones i make.

[Duramax]

My solution to four issues with the Brno action. Poor bedding footprint. Tenon too small to carry longer and heavier profile barrels. Loading port often too fiddly for quick follow up shots during benchrest matches. Poor trigger where this one has a 1.5 ounce Jewell fitted. Original acton sleeve was binned and this one made from 420 MFQ stainless treated to around 50 Rockwell. The bolt has adjustable headspace rings between the body and handle that come in a set from 39 thou through to 44 thou in half thou increments. The firing pin spring arrangement has been modified to vary spring tension to get optimum ignition. Unfortunately no time to use it these days as hunting takes precedence.

[Duramax]

This die resizes 240 grain cast Busters Bullets in 44 mag from 0.429" up to 0.432" to suit the generous bore dimensions of my lever gun. It does this through the use of the deep hollow point spike in the die where the bore has been reamed to that size . Three shot groups at 50m around the inch with 24 grains of 2205 at just under 1700 fps. Use them on pigs and deer and have yet to see them exit so sort of negates the poor expansion of hard cast with the broad nose and 4mm wide and 7mm deep HP.

[Wapiti]

Duramax, what great work. Your lathe and mill work is first class, dude.
Love it.
There are some unreal quiet people out there just making some great gear and doing what the mass-production factories won't do nowadays.
Mate, have you made a SS or Alum magazine housing to replace the cheap sh*t ones in the Brnos and CZ's?

It's a real shame that in this pathetic, union-university acticivist-run country, people with a 1000x more skill and worth than these pathetic clowns enforce rules making it almost impossible to make and sell upgrade parts for firearms.
Not talking about making bikie-quality rubbish sub-guns here, but making a living trying to make innocuous parts others crave who want to get rid of cheap plastic crap on their firearms and get upgraded gear and better ideas.
And reward people for making great things and keeping their brains ticking instead of getting fat on the lounge watching mindless sh*t all day.

[Duramax]

Back in the day when i had an armourers licence i did make replacement magazines in stainless steel for Tikka 55s and they turned out well. No others as it is time consuming but i did sell all the dies and jigs for the M55 mags but old mate never got around to making any. No other mag work after that.

In the lines of the 44 mag die I did make a rimfire pointing die to replicate the Eley EPS nose and expand out the bullet diameter. Unlike some youtu.be blokes i found no accuracy gain with a multitude of ammo types i tried. What i did find was as Eley claimed, there was a noticeable reduction of wind drift but could only be detected in a very good rimfire with ammo like RWS or Lapua upmarket stuff. In cheaper ammo the bigger group size possibly hid any benefit.
These days i do R&D work for underground drill rigs so rifle work is zero but any spare time is off hunting deer, hogs and dogs.