June 25 - June 29
Double Guns Week 2
This is the second week of a two-week course, which will cover book work on high grade double guns, including regulating triggers, repairing locks and restoring guns to safe condition. Resetting sprung ribs and tightening loose actions will also be discussed. Students will bring their own guns to work on.
PREREQUISITE: Machine shop or consent of instructor.
A MESSAGE FROM THE INSTRUCTOR
Welcome to Trinidad State Junior College and the course in Side By Side and Over/Under Shotgun Repair. I am looking forward to meeting all of you and intend to give you a great deal of information concerning repair of these guns. My plan is to spend an hour or so of time each day in a lecture environment with the handout I will provide you with at the start of the class.
As a rough outline, the class will cover, Barrels, bores, dents and honing. Introduction to metal finishes including rust bluing, leaf spring making, making various metal parts, resoldering ribs, refitting (tightening) actions and trigger pulls. We will cover some stock repairs, but not stock making per se. Stockmaking is a separate subject itself. Your projects are what we are going to work on, whatever they may be.
Each student must provide the guns they will be working on. I would suggest bringing at least two guns, bring as many as you can; we don‘t want to run out of project guns with time remaining. The school cannot provide guns to work on, so the class is geared to your guns and their problems, and not everyone will be working on the same projects at the same time, but we will use each other‘s projects as learning experiences for all.
No ammunition is allowed in the classroom at any time. Safety is our first concern.
If you have questions you can reach me at my shop at 414 425 4830 or email
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. I will do my best to answer your questions as soon as possible but please remember I have my business to run also.
This class will cover side by side and over/under shotgun repair and rebuilding. The class is primarily a workshop, with the student working on the guns he or she provides. Instruction will be focused on the work required on each gun. I will also provide a certain amount of instruction on specific topics listed below. Most of my instruction is centered on how I do the task, not that this is the only way or even the best way. I have a multi-page handout you will get the first morning of class.
Safety, introduction, basic tools and fixtures, assessment of condition, disassembly principles.
Metal finishes, Barrels bores, dents, honing, bulges, chambers, striking barrel exteriors.
Making parts, steel selection, heat treatment, case hardening, screws, shop made cutters welding and soldering.
Spring making and heat treatment
Soldering ribs and forend loops
Refitting actions and barrels, hinge pin, hook, locking bolt, barrel bite and forend fit
Wood repairs
Trigger pull principles, regulation and safety
Double Guns Tool List
The following tool list is a guideline, what I feel you need to tackle class projects. You may not need or use all the tools listed here, but they are all necessary for many tasks, and even if you don‘t use all of them in the class on your projects, you will use them if you continue with shotgun work.
After some of the tools I have listed a code for source of the tool, eg: MSC for MSC
Supply, BR for Brownells.
1 pair of safety glasses with side shields
1 1oz ball peen hammer
1 soft faced hammer eg; Stanley #594 MSC
1 common slip-joint pliers
1 pair of cheap needle nose pliers. We may degrade these with heat so buy a cheapy.
1 8 ― #0 extra narrow pillar file BR 360 312 131
1 8‖ #2 extra narrow pillar file BR 360 312 151
1 8‖ three square (triangular) file
1 8‖ mill bastard file 1 10 ― mill bastard file
1 roll of heavy duty paper towels
Some cotton rags or shop towels
1 pink pearl rubber eraser 2 ½ x 1 x ½
1 Exacto knife with #11 blade or a good pocket knife
1 3/8‘ variable speed drill
If you intend to do some rust bluing bring the following:
1 pair brown or white cotton gloves
1 pr rubber gloves, I like the Bluettes brand
1 package of oil free 0000 grade steel wool. It must be oil free, like the Liberon brand from wood workers supply houses. Common hardware store wool is full of oil and not of any use in bluing
1 6 ― half round #0 cut file
1 ¼ ― chain saw file
1 5/16 round smooth cut file MSC
All file must have handles, even corn cobs if you are on a budget
1 set of needle files, you don‘t need expensive ones to start
1 6 ― dial caliper (Vernier type) or a 0 to 1‖ micrometer
1 center punch
1 6 ― scale or ruler
1 hacksaw with a high quality 10 ― 24 tooth blade
1 steel scriber
1 large magic marker
1 roll 1 ― masking tape
2 12 x 12 ― ¼ thick cork sheet. This will be used for making padded vise jaws. Walmart may even have these, else MSC
1 12 x 12 ― scrap carpeting for more vise jaws
1 Dremel tool or equivalent, should be variable speed with accessories kit. The ability to control (lower) speed is important
1 each 10 ft roll or sheet of 120, 240, 320 abrasive cloth. I like the two inch wide but one inch or sheets are ok, for metal polishing
1 each sheets of 400 and 600 wet or dry abrasive paper
1 Mapp or propane torch
1 sheet grey Scotchbrite (Reg). scouring pad
1 set of screwdrivers. Suggest Brownells set # 080 103 081 as a good start. Don‘t use cheap screwdrivers on your expensive gun.
1 apron, if you wish. I always wear one as I can get dirty, and you probably will too
And last but not least, some good gun oil (preferably not WD 40) and some solvent
The book store here has a lot of tools but I would not count on getting everything there. Bring as many tools as you can, it‘s pretty hard to have too many tools, or too many guns.
There also is a pretty good hardware store just down the street from the school, and a Walmart down the road.
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