Microwelding for ejector repair

[Cold Spring]

So I've been studying and now working on the ejectors on one of my Parkers, and just had some microwelding done to rebuild the lever shoulder on what's commonly called the "Roll Joint", or properly the Joint-Block. The shoulder was heavily gouged when a floating ejector sear (lever) had worn and was jamming whenever the barrels were fired and opened. This Parker was ordered by a noted trap shooter from the Midwest and probably used by others after he passed, and she came to me with the ejectors goofed up. Right barrel wouldn't eject and left was intermittent, and the gun just didn't feel right when opened.

Just to show what can be done with microwelding. Done under a magnifier by a friend in a high tech industry. His company doesn’t do gun work, this was done as a favor to me by one of his techs, please don't ask for contact info.

I still need to fit and time everything but this was the first step.

First pic shows the worn lever engagement shoulder

Second and third after welding, expand and check out the mini “weld beads” in the 3rd pic

Last one is after re-machining to just a little over length for final fitting; filler material is pretty hard but machinable using high speed steel tooling.