M1895 Winchester Musket

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reincarnated
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Re: M1895 Winchester Musket

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In one of his books on single shot rifles, Frank de Haas wrote of changing the length of the connecting link in a Ballard by drilling and tapping a hole in the bearing surface of the link and fitting a set screw in the hole, so that the surface of the set screw (not the adjustment end, of course) became the adjustable bearing surface. Perhaps something like that would work.

I think you have to be one of the anointed to get any help from the Winchester Collectors forum.

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Culpeper
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Re: M1895 Winchester Musket

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It looks like I have come up with a dry hole on finding the correct carrier. So I could wait until I could find an early rifle to swap the part off of it or I can temporarily build up the cam lever with epoxsy and a shim.

So the easier way is the shim. Will try to shim it.

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Re: M1895 Winchester Musket

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Shim Shimany Shim Shimany Shim Shim-aree... Paul's fix will be lucky, as lucky as can be....
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Re: M1895 Winchester Musket

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Make the shim out of a FORD part!

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