Colt V-spring Adventures

A collection of posts often on colt E- and I-frame revolvers: pythons, model 357s, officer model specials, etc. Topics not limited to: action jobs, fixing Bubba-gone-wrong gunsmith mistakes, and revolver porn. And sometimes I'll wander off the reservation and type random nouns and verbs that have nothing to do with our sole purpose, because who the hell can really pay attention that long?

Sunday, June 28, 2009

micrometer party!

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I'm getting old enough that I get more and more credit for what other people I work with do. In this case, I won a prize that came with...
Friday, June 26, 2009

lathe is up and running!

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The electricity guy came out today. Lathe now works! Not super accurate, I'm getting .001 variance at two ends of a 4" cut. I th...
Thursday, June 25, 2009

Trip report: Frank Glenn gunsmithing lessons

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I flew back Saturday after going to work with Frank Glenn on colts, mostly to learn how to eliminate endshake. In general, it's what y...
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

emco unimat 3, compact 5 cmc, and south bend links.

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I got all three machines, so this is a placeholder for useful links. Unimat 3: parts: http://www.blueridgeshoponline.com/category.sc?cate...
Monday, June 22, 2009

useful dfariswheel post on ultrasonic cleaners

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From http://www.coltforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7329 . Further info at: http://www.coltforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20601 Here...

3,500+ lbs of revolver accessories!

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A bunch of repairs need a lathe and mill. Fortunately I was finally able to score two at pretty good prices. They were dropped off last ...
Sunday, June 21, 2009

Back from a hiatus

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Just got back from a trip to AZ to work with Frank Glenn on colts. It's pretty helpful to have someon experienced go through stuff ...
Monday, June 15, 2009

What he said

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The sad reality is that the legal conception of evidence is absolutely worthless from an intellectual standpoint. The mere fact that it is p...
Sunday, June 14, 2009

A data on boy/girl pay disparity

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Canadian girl doctors work 30 hr/week vs boy doc of 35 hr/week which, unsurprisingly, can show up as a pay difference: http://offsettingbeha...

the godzilla frame wrench

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I spent friday night making the mother of all frame wrenches(*) from a ginormous chunk of aluminum. There's really no need for it to be...

1980s communist germany underground fashion.

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A photo essay of the results of struggling with (unfortunately topical) problem of how to make something interesting out of State Supplied a...

UK seemingly recovering better than US, without wasting huge amounts of money.

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No less a robo-partisan than Krugman admits that the UK's use of inflation and negligible "stimulus spending" seems to have th...
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