Repairing the crushed ends of a shotgun barrel
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Repairing the crushed ends of a shotgun barrel
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Repairing the Crushed Ends of a Shotgun Barrel
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Repairing the Crushed Ends of
a Shotgun Barrel
Tue accidental dropping of a rail-
road tie on the barrels of a gun
obliged me to saw off about 6 in.~of
the barrels. The ends of the original
barrels are shown in Fig. 1. In saw-
ing off the barrels, an opening was
left between the ribs (see Fig. 2).
The channel between the barrels
tapers from the breech toward the
muzzle, being closed at the muzzle
by the wedge-shaped plugs A. At
the point where the section of the bar-
rels was cut off, the channel was too
wide for the original plugs, and I
closed it with solder in the following
manner: First I tinned the channel as
far in as possible; then I made a loop
of copper wire as at A. Around this
I wrapped tissue paper, as at B.
Pushing this in the channel, IT pressed
the paper so that it would fill the space
Fig. 8, and then pulled the wires out-
ward to bring the paper within 1/2 in.
of the muzzle. Bending the wire asin
Fig. 4, I filled the space with solder.
After the solder had cooled I cut off
‘the projecting wires and filed the end
smooth, as shown in Fig. 5. The
purpose of the paper was in order
to make a base on which to build the
solder.—JAMES M. KANE.
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Contributor (Dublin Core)
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James M. Kane (Article writer)
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1919-02
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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95
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Davide Donà
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 94, n. 2, 1919
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