Need to add length to the tip of my entry thimble

[James Rogers]

I am going to use this entry thimble on a gun and have modified the tang into a point.

http://trackofthewolf.com/(S(vtv435rzdxwld2ipdgk0jn45))/categories/partDetail.aspx?catId=0&subId=0&styleId=0&partNum=RP-FOWL-E-6-B

I would like to have that point just a little longer as it seems just a little squat for the architecture.
Do you think I can anneal this cast piece and try to draw it out just a little at the tip to avoid cutting it off under the thumbnail and brazing a longer piece?

Any suggestions appreciated

Jim

[Dave B]

The tail on that is pretty thick unlike the #7 so I think you could pean it out with the cross pean making the tail longer. I should qualify that in as much as the rod pipe is soft yellow brass vs a more stiff type. I got a butt plate from them that was hard as a rock a long while back. It cracked into a huge mess when I tried to anneal it. The next one I got was soft as butter go figure

[Dale Halterman]

You could cut the whole tail off at the thumbnail and solder a new tail of sheet brass underneath it of whatever size and shape you want. Brazing isn't necessary.

Dale H

[Dphariss]

If you solder on a piece use high temp silver solder. It will not come adrift.

Dan

[D. Taylor Sapergia]

I wouldn't hesitate to add brass to a pipe extension by silver soldering.  But when I add a little 'tit' to the inside of the extension as a tang retaining device, I soft solder it.

[George F.]

I soft solder only barrel lugs. All else I silver solder. I recently added a 1/4" piece of brass to the upper and lower plates on a patchbox. A good fit is a must. When the solder flowed, a squezzed the new piece and the plate together. The result was an invisible joint with the eye. Under the head gear it was slightly visible. Of course you add more than you need to later be shaped and filed.   ...Geo.

[jerrywh]

How far do you intend to draw it out??? The only way to tell if it will draw out is to try it.  None of us know what these are cast out of.  If it's soft brass it will draw out.  I don't soft solder much of anything.

[Acer Saccharum]

If it's made of sheet brass, it will draw. If cast, like Jerry sez, you won't know until you try it.

I think some of Track's castings are a yellow bronze, not brass, and it does not like annealing or drawing at all. It likes to crack. Harder to file than steel.

Acer