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| Subject: Broken rifles? Don't bin them...bring them back to life! (Tutorial) Fri Apr 18, 2014 9:15 pm | |
| Hi Folks, This is my first attempt at a tutorial, so please be kind.... If you are like me, you probably have a pile of these in your collection: What to do? Myself, I hate throwing vintage items away, especially when they have potential to be used again. For this tutorial I decided to start with the standard M16 rifle. For this operation I used the following tools: Soldering iron with fine tip, glue gun (purchased for $2.00 at a discount store) drill with small bit (7/34th or appropriate) some left over black epoxy spray paint, pliers and some 1/8th or 3.16mm aluminum tube from a local hobby shop ($3.00). Three tubes come in the package, enough to do several rifles. First step is to clean the rifle (as you will be painting it later on). After this, plug in both the soldering iron and the glue gun in order to have them nice and hot when you are ready. Take your tubing and determine how long you want the barrel piece to be, measure and cut off. Use either pliers or hacksaw, if using pliers, shape the end you have cut off. hacksaw or dremel is better to get clean ends. remember when you measure that the tube needs to be longer than the desired barrel length. Then take hot soldering iron and melt a hole in the end the rifle where the barrel will fit in. ONLY MELT A SMALL OPENING.. I can't stress this enough. Then use a small drill bit to hone out and gently lengthen the hole. Insert tube into rifle to test fit. This is what the end should look like. Once proper fit is achieved, fill hole with hot glue from glue gun. Position while glue is still hot and allow it to set. Quick spray with paint and you have... Perfect? No, but this is something you can use in Dioramas or displays. If you had the desire to spend some time painting this nicely your results will be better. I did this very quickly to see if it would work and plan on fixing some more! Hope some of you can get some use from this.. |
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Joe90 Eagle Eyes
Posts : 296 Join date : 2013-01-04 Age : 67 Location : Edmonton CANADA
| Subject: Re: Broken rifles? Don't bin them...bring them back to life! (Tutorial) Sat Apr 19, 2014 2:15 am | |
| Great tutorial! Lots of good techniques. Camojoe, over at The Trenches (It's a Link) sells injection moulded M1 rifle barrels. Using ActiionJon's technique and CamoJoe's barrels you should be able to bring your M1's back to looking like new. | |
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Cappy Eagle Eyes (Gripping Hands)
Posts : 339 Join date : 2012-11-17 Age : 68 Location : East Anglia Regiment Action Man Battalion
| Subject: Re: Broken rifles? Don't bin them...bring them back to life! (Tutorial) Sat Apr 19, 2014 8:29 am | |
| I've made successful repairs to the SLR and Grease Gun barrels. Just a suggestion when posting picture links, use the IMG link in Photobucket and the actual image will appear in the post and not just a clickable link. _________________ The collector formally known as Blue Pants Man | |
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Captian action Moderator
Posts : 1679 Join date : 2013-08-26 Age : 53 Location : Kent, The Lorry Park of England ! Some call it the garden of England , it is ,if your garden is covered in wheelie bins and dog doo !
| Subject: Re: Broken rifles? Don't bin them...bring them back to life! (Tutorial) Sat Apr 19, 2014 8:41 am | |
| hi action jon i took the liberty of ammending your post with the direct image links Captain Action (jay) Moderator. Great fix by the way !!! | |
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Cappy Eagle Eyes (Gripping Hands)
Posts : 339 Join date : 2012-11-17 Age : 68 Location : East Anglia Regiment Action Man Battalion
| Subject: Re: Broken rifles? Don't bin them...bring them back to life! (Tutorial) Sat Apr 19, 2014 12:49 pm | |
| - Captian action wrote:
- hi action jon i took the liberty of ammending your post with the direct image links
Captain Action (jay) Moderator. Great fix by the way !!! I tried to do that myself but it wasn't easy using an iPad. Thanks Jay. _________________ The collector formally known as Blue Pants Man | |
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BAMComix Admin
Posts : 15364 Join date : 2012-11-07 Age : 52 Location : Birmingham, England
| Subject: Re: Broken rifles? Don't bin them...bring them back to life! (Tutorial) Sat Apr 19, 2014 1:03 pm | |
| superb work Jon, keep it up my friend | |
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Rossini Red Devil
Posts : 909 Join date : 2012-11-11 Age : 45 Location : My house
| Subject: Re: Broken rifles? Don't bin them...bring them back to life! (Tutorial) Sat Apr 19, 2014 1:41 pm | |
| Great work! Look more professional than my attempt! Drilled a 1.5mm hole in the end of gun and stuck a pop rivet stem in it and coloured it in with black marker pen!
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Guest Guest
| Subject: Re: Broken rifles? Don't bin them...bring them back to life! (Tutorial) Sat Apr 19, 2014 8:09 pm | |
| Thank you for the kind words gentlemen! |
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TALLY HO Armoured Car Commander
Posts : 719 Join date : 2012-11-16 Age : 58 Location : north wales
| Subject: Re: Broken rifles? Don't bin them...bring them back to life! (Tutorial) Sun Apr 20, 2014 3:07 pm | |
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action bob Flock Head (Hard Hands)
Posts : 200 Join date : 2013-04-25 Age : 58 Location : Hertfordshire
| Subject: Re: Broken rifles? Don't bin them...bring them back to life! (Tutorial) Mon Apr 21, 2014 11:01 am | |
| A fab tip and fab pictures Cappy you said you have repaired SLR's how do you get the muzzle shape at the end of the barrel as I have a few damaged one's that I would like to have a go at fixing Cheers PJ | |
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Wolf_Soldier64 Moderator
Posts : 2476 Join date : 2012-11-12 Age : 60 Location : Reading, Berkshire
| Subject: Re: Broken rifles? Don't bin them...bring them back to life! (Tutorial) Tue Apr 22, 2014 8:48 pm | |
| Great upload well done, another little job to do _________________ Its better to Burn out than fade away
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Guest Guest
| Subject: Re: Broken rifles? Don't bin them...bring them back to life! (Tutorial) Thu May 22, 2014 4:10 am | |
| Simple, but effective trick to restore weapons to serviceability--thanks for pioneering the way! |
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Teckno Viking SCRAMBLE PILOT
Posts : 547 Join date : 2015-06-08 Location : N.E ENGLAND
| Subject: Re: Broken rifles? Don't bin them...bring them back to life! (Tutorial) Thu Jun 11, 2015 11:15 am | |
| Simple and effective and any chance to give new life to the broken has to be done. | |
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clivvers HOME OFFICE MINISTER
Posts : 3581 Join date : 2013-02-08 Location : Between here and saving another MAM again! "That's one small step for a MAM, one giant leap for MAMkind"
| Subject: Re: Broken rifles? Don't bin them...bring them back to life! (Tutorial) Thu Jun 11, 2015 11:49 am | |
| This must have been when i was away, great tips! _________________ clivvers - saviour of the huMAM race @ MAMageddon 2009 - 2099 @ clivvers MAM Nation: | |
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