|
|
Post by squawberryman on Dec 21, 2023 6:04:39 GMT -5
This started on December the 11th. I've eaten all of the popcorn and milk duds I have. I'm not one to walk out of a movie before it's over but this is killinnnnnnnnn' meeeeeeeee.
|
|
|
|
Post by hughree on Dec 22, 2023 9:07:19 GMT -5
This started on December the 11th. I've eaten all of the popcorn and milk duds I have. I'm not one to walk out of a movie before it's over but this is killinnnnnnnnn' meeeeeeeee. Update - it's still nestled firmly in the cold embrace of the Ruger slide. For now. I had to participate in a mediation that took up the past week and most of this one. After an 8 hour session involving 5 other lawyers yesterday, I am beginning to understand what the broken punch tip must feel like - hammered from every direction but unyielding. I will attempt to contact Tim Malcolm, aka Malcolm Ballistic Tool, this morning as soon as my PTSD subsides. I will post updates as I have them. Until then, please feel free to use my ongoing personal anguish to justify your purchase of more milk duds and popcorn. And if you can suggest a method to remove the pin with Butterfingers and Junior Mints, I'm all ears. |
|
|
|
Post by bradshaw on Dec 22, 2023 9:49:36 GMT -5
Update - it's still nestled firmly in the cold embrace of the Ruger slide. For now. I had to participate in a mediation that took up the past week and most of this one. After an 8 hour session involving 5 other lawyers yesterday, I am beginning to understand what the broken punch tip must feel like - hammered from every direction but unyielding. I will attempt to contact Tim Malcolm, aka Malcolm Ballistic Tool, this morning as soon as my PTSD subsides. I will post updates as I have them. Until then, please feel free to use my ongoing personal anguish to justify your purchase of more milk duds and popcorn. And if you can suggest a method to remove the pin with Butterfingers and Junior Mints, I'm all ears. ***** As your spiritual advisor, I advise you use dynamite. Drilling & blasting job years ago, length of drill steel wedged in rock. Chain drill to the bucket of a track hoe, operator tries to finesse with brute force. No go. Drill holes around the stuck shaft: to blast it out, a trick I had successfully used before, but not in 10-below ZERO. Drill steel came out----a pretzel. David Bradshaw |
|
|
|
Post by hughree on Dec 22, 2023 10:22:17 GMT -5
Update - it's still nestled firmly in the cold embrace of the Ruger slide. For now. I had to participate in a mediation that took up the past week and most of this one. After an 8 hour session involving 5 other lawyers yesterday, I am beginning to understand what the broken punch tip must feel like - hammered from every direction but unyielding. I will attempt to contact Tim Malcolm, aka Malcolm Ballistic Tool, this morning as soon as my PTSD subsides. I will post updates as I have them. Until then, please feel free to use my ongoing personal anguish to justify your purchase of more milk duds and popcorn. And if you can suggest a method to remove the pin with Butterfingers and Junior Mints, I'm all ears. ***** As your spiritual advisor, I advise you use dynamite. Drilling & blasting job years ago, length of drill steel wedged in rock. Chain drill to the bucket of a track hoe, operator tries to finesse with brute force. No go. Drill holes around the stuck shaft: to blast it out, a trick I had successfully used before, but not in 10-below ZERO. Drill steel came out----a pretzel. David Bradshaw Oh spiritual advisor! I agree. Unfortunately, the pesky bomb-sniffing beagle detected the dynamite and they would not let me bring it into the mediation room. Stupid local rules. As for the Ruger, I just spoke with a gentleman at Malcolm Ballistic Tool about my cursed pea shooter. He asked for some photos which I am emailing. Funny, the gunsmith also mentioned something about a track hoe and a chain. Great minds think alike, it seems. More to follow... Hugh |
|
|
|
Post by revolvercranker on Dec 22, 2023 13:54:42 GMT -5
I agree with all, but not sure about drill rod stuck in rock. That's a whole different game. The rock is very abrasive and had a very good grip on that drill rod. To put what I'm saying into perspective rock climber pound Pitons into the rock to anchor their ropes to and their lives depend on them. For little at the are they holding ability is tremendous.
I can't believe Ruger wanted the whole pistol back.
|
|
|
|
Post by paleroadster on Dec 22, 2023 18:00:43 GMT -5
At this point my suggestion, or request, if it does get to the use of explosives for the love of the Second Amendment post up a video.
|
|
|
|
Post by hughree on Dec 22, 2023 18:08:39 GMT -5
At this point my suggestion, or request, if it does get to the use of explosives for the love of the Second Amendment post up a video. As a responsible adult with safety foremost on my mind, I can't see me doing that. However, keep your eyes peeled for any posts from a new forum member named Louie Kablooie. Just sayin... |
|
|
|
Post by squawberryman on Dec 22, 2023 19:25:50 GMT -5
The Force is aaaaaaaallriiiiiiight.
|
|
|
|
Post by cas on Dec 22, 2023 19:50:58 GMT -5
The question I have now is the same one I had when I first read about it. Where and how is this thing when you're whacking it? Sometimes the holding is more important than the hitting.
|
|
|
|
Post by hughree on Dec 22, 2023 22:03:09 GMT -5
The question I have now is the same one I had when I first read about it. Where and how is this thing when you're whacking it? Sometimes the holding is more important than the hitting. Good question. The slide is flat on a hard plastic bench block on a concrete floor. The tip of the puncher is placed directly on the broken end of the punchee and tapped smartly with a gunsmith hammer. Many times. I can't detect any movement yet. After every attempt, I am careful to place it flat on the block after I fling it across the room in frustration. I have not yet heard back from the gunsmith I contacted this morning. Christmas holidays will give me time to research the location of any ley lines close to Dallas. It's a long shot but the the shaman said to try it. |
|
|
|
Post by revolvercranker on Dec 23, 2023 1:03:51 GMT -5
I'm going along with cas. I'd like to see you clamp it, carefully, in a vise with protective jaw of a material softer then the slide material such as aluminum, brass, or even lead. That plastic block you use is resilient which means it absorbs shock. Remember I said clamp it carefully. One carefully is DON'T squeeze the slide in. We just want it solid. Can you try this?
|
|
|
|
Post by hughree on Dec 23, 2023 10:40:09 GMT -5
I'm going along with cas. I'd like to see you clamp it, carefully, in a vise with protective jaw of a material softer then the slide material such as aluminum, brass, or even lead. That plastic block you use is resilient which means it absorbs shock. Remember I said clamp it carefully. One carefully is DON'T squeeze the slide in. We just want it solid. Can you try this? Unfortunately, I don't have a solidly mounted vice - just limited tension type gun cradles used for mounting scopes, bore sighting, etc. I also don't have an anvil and, trust me, that's a good thing. I don't think I have damaged the slide yet. And the expense of acquiring tools likely to solve the problem instead of making it worse prompts me to send the slide to a gunsmith who thinks he can fix it. That will likely be after the holidays. When I talked to Ruger (who wanted the entire firearm shipped at my expense as a new slide would require fitment to a new barrel), I thought I would order a replacement "firing pin retention pin", aka roll pin, and an extra recoil and extractor spring. Four bucks. Each. $12.00. For three springs. Shipping brought the total to $18.00. For three springs. The nice young lady ran my credit card on December 9th. To date, no shipping notice, no tracking number, no three springs. The bloom is off the rose with this .22 Lite Rack. |
|
|
|
Post by revolvercranker on Dec 23, 2023 11:39:06 GMT -5
Good gunsmiths are becoming as rare as TV repair men!
|
|
|
|
Post by prisedefer on Dec 23, 2023 14:01:07 GMT -5
Is the titanium firing pin still in the slide? Is that the interference?
|
|
|
|
Post by leadhound on Dec 23, 2023 16:58:13 GMT -5
I can't believe Ruger wanted the whole pistol back. Best guess here, they would have to "fit" it and function test, if'n they can get It out. All about liability here, CYA. Occasionally they will keep and offer a replacement. Possibly keep for R&D? |
|
