Warning on Parker 3644

[Bruce Day]

Originally Posted by Jay Oliver

Thanks Bruce and Mike,

I am definitely going to see if welding can be done with these barrels.

Yes, there was a lot of talk about trying to find another set of barrels , monoblocking, sleeving , all sorts of difficult, costly and time consuming solutions. People have been welding small cracks and holes in barrels for years with good results. Of course the sensible thing to do would be to run some heavy loads through it after the repair but none of the barrels that I know of that have been competently welded have failed.

I once posted here a photo of a Parker barrel that had about a 3/4” square area cut out and a patch welded in . It was old , maybe since the 1920’s or 30’s. The bluing was mostly worn from the patch area from use .