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Gunsmith question: Rem 788 bolt handle
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<blockquote data-quote="Larry Morgan" data-source="post: 862276" data-attributes="member: 4676"><p>Welding can be fine, but you have to be careful as this will cause an annealing effect around the weld area. The bold handle area isn't super critical, versus the lugs for instance, but it will have this effect. </p><p></p><p>TIG welds are the softest of the welds, which does make it ideal for this type of stuff. Did you just butt up the handle and weld it on? You may have to make sort of a chamfer on the bolt handle where it's broke and sort of a ditch around where the handle meets the bolt. This gives you a larger volume to fill with metal. After all, you are trying to compete with the previous solid metal strength.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Larry Morgan, post: 862276, member: 4676"] Welding can be fine, but you have to be careful as this will cause an annealing effect around the weld area. The bold handle area isn't super critical, versus the lugs for instance, but it will have this effect. TIG welds are the softest of the welds, which does make it ideal for this type of stuff. Did you just butt up the handle and weld it on? You may have to make sort of a chamfer on the bolt handle where it's broke and sort of a ditch around where the handle meets the bolt. This gives you a larger volume to fill with metal. After all, you are trying to compete with the previous solid metal strength. [/QUOTE]
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