Welding up swivel holes in a bottom rib

[Craig Larter]

I have heard it is now possible to laser weld holes from a swivel mount in the bottom rib of a barrel. Has anyone had this done by whom and were you satisfied with the results. The screw holes are size 3-48(.090dia). Thanks

[Mark Ouellette]

Bachelder

[Angel Cruz]

Dale Edmonds fixed a pair of weep holes on a VH I had and you couldn't tell it ever had any holes.

[Brian Dudley]

If I had to do such a repair, I would do so by turning a couple of small pins the size of the holes. But taper them by a hair so that they fit in snugly and then melt them both down with a .040" tig tungsten to fuse them to the surrounding metal.

Obviously a little dressing and re bluing would be in order.

[Bill Murphy]

How about repairing a hole in a Parker rib and replicating the matting on the repair?

[Angel Cruz]

I was thinking of doing that to my Trojan and then send it to an engraver to cut the wiggly
lines. But one of the holes is on the lettering so I left it alone.

[John Campbell]

If the holes are properly filled, then any good engraver can also re-cut the lettering necessary. The barrels will also have to be refinished, of course.

[Brian Dudley]

I had Gournet recut about 3/8" worth of matting on a parker rib and it turned out great.

Regarding roll stamps. An engraver should be able to do some patch work on the lettering and make it look pretty good. Also, Turnbull does have some Parker roll stamp dies. But not all of them.