PHE Case Color Restored

[Parker Bachelder (Brad's Profile)]

Mark, thank you for the post. Really great pictures.
It is up to Mark as to how much of this guns lineage, he wishes to share.
What I can say for the sake of clarity is that the forearm radius is due to a prior attempted repair to the ejectors. We could not replace the ground out metal. The reciever had been buffed and blued atleast twice over the life of the gun.
When done properly, case hardening absolutely can not cause warpage. The Parker case hardening process minutely shrinks the metal due to surface density. New parkers required two fittings of parts due to this shrinkage, as noted in the book. Recasing older recievers usually will desirably tighten up looseness due to wear.

Brad

[edgarspencer]

Originally Posted by Brad Bachelder

What I can say for the sake of clarity is that the forearm radius is due to a prior attempted repair to the ejectors. We could not replace the ground out metal. The reciever had been buffed and blued atleast twice over the life of the

I was wondering that also, because the edge of the receiver
looked like it might have been polished. You're dead on regarding possible shrinkage. Anytime steel is taken above the lower critical temperature, grain structure is further refined. I sectioned loads of test specimens in the metalography lab and did photomicrographs in order to look at the grain structure. This can work for the gunsmith, and also against him, as internal dimensions can increase too, as I discovered one time re casing a Winchester High Wall receiver. To compensate for it, I had to build up the falling block and remachine it.

[John Truitt]

Mr. Q,

How long are those barrels? They look longish in the pictures.
34"?