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General discussion => Gun Building => Topic started by: D. Taylor Sapergia on August 07, 2019, 02:45:44 AM
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Here's a couple of pictures Bob asked me to post for him. It's a Durs Egg plate and frizzen with duble throat cock and Bob's great internals. I'm sure he'll comment on this when he sees it.
Taylor
(https://i.ibb.co/vjXsCnD/0.jpg) (https://ibb.co/G5HsfSF)
(https://i.ibb.co/TcfrFzc/0-1.jpg) (https://ibb.co/wykYxDy)
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I'll take it!
-Ron
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He didn't say anything about it being for sale! Give him a chance to explain, please.
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Sorry. It was just a reflex. ;)
-Ron
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The reason I wanted this posted was so the straight lower limb of the mainspring
could be seen.Also I want to add that this is NOT an imperative to the function of
the spring or its longevity. I have made them that bowed a bit at full cock and they
were just as fast as this one.The finest lock I ever owned was a Joseph Brazier lock
on the Whitworth semi military match rifle I used for 11 years. That mainspring
when drawn to full cock would go into an arc and when it was off the link it went
that far in the other direction. The taper in the lower limb was down to .030 and
that light spring packed a wallop.When I first started sending locks to Germany
in the late 1970's the people that got them wondered how I got such speed and
power from such a light spring and my answer was and still is "High quality material
and knowing how to form the spring.Nothing more at all.
Getting back to the lock in the picture,I finished 3 of these last week and all of them
show this same straight lower limb at full cock and they have a short,fast fall when
the sear is released.I may make up a few more of these if I feel like working and
if I do,they will be posted here and nowhere else.This lock is the L&R Durs Egg plate
and frizzen with the cock from their Dixie RPL lock.I think it looks OK and the man
that gets it does too.I plan to deliver these two at the CLA Show in Lexington on 16
August.
Taylor,thanks again for the help.
Bob Roller
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That Roller/Durs Egg lock is absolutely beautiful - art and functionality wrapped together'
I really like the curly tail on the bottom of the frizzen.
The entire lock shows pride in workmanship. That takes love and knowledge of both the product and the materials that make it.
Bob Roller - you do darn good work. I think anyone would take pride of ownership in any of your products.
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Those hands are pretty clean, Bob!
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Those hands are pretty clean, Bob!
Taylor,
We had been to our grand daughter's home for the 2nd birthday of
her youngest daughter.Normally,my hands are not that clean.
I finished the Schuetzen lock today and the double set trigger that goes with it
so now I will notify "Burnt".CLA show in Lexington,Ky next Friday and I hope
to be there.
Bob
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That Roller/Durs Egg lock is absolutely beautiful - art and functionality wrapped together'
I really like the curly tail on the bottom of the frizzen.
The entire lock shows pride in workmanship. That takes love and knowledge of both the product and the materials that make it.
Bob Roller - you do darn good work. I think anyone would take pride of ownership in any of your products.
Craig,
Thank you for the nice remarks about the lock.As I have posted so many
times,it tells one and all what I think of myself and what I think of the
man that gets it and its mate which is THE important part of the idea,
the customer.I MIGHT make a couple more later on with the double throated
cock.I like the idea on a hunting gun and they are NOT too prone to breakage
in the field or anywhere else.
Bob Roller
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I like the short throw of the Durs Egg and If I remember correctly the John Bailes lock also is a short throw. Seems if all else is correct which these are for sure, that the short throw has to shorten locktime.
Bob
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Sorry. It was just a reflex. ;)
-Ron
You beat me to it...lol
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Thanks for the nice comments about my lock work.The short stroke of the
hammer or cock is made possible by preloading a main spring that will
have the torque needed to allow it.The spring and very close tolerances
of the tumbler plus a link allow this type of performance. The whole
ensemble says what I think of the customer as well as myself.
Bob Roller