I was thinking about the 'What happened to this M29??' thread when I was doing this fix up job. I had posted there as a way to fix the drilled hole was to fill them with a steel plug rivited into place and then finish. Avoids welding heat and distortion.
I had this Winchester M63 22 auto to mount a Lyman recv'r site on. The forend cap had a hole drilled and tapped into it for a long gone sling swivel. The owner whom I've known for a long time didn't mention fixing it but I knew it bothered him. So I went about repairing it with a plug and then reblued it. The hole in the butt stock got fixed too. Sometimes you just do stuff for people. Here's some pics of the process.
-Orig drilled hole squared up w/an end mill
-plug rivited into place
-belt grinder used to rough polish it flat
-belt grinder again to finish off the flats
-front radius polished out by hand and blended to the flats
- reblued
I had this Winchester M63 22 auto to mount a Lyman recv'r site on. The forend cap had a hole drilled and tapped into it for a long gone sling swivel. The owner whom I've known for a long time didn't mention fixing it but I knew it bothered him. So I went about repairing it with a plug and then reblued it. The hole in the butt stock got fixed too. Sometimes you just do stuff for people. Here's some pics of the process.
-Orig drilled hole squared up w/an end mill
-plug rivited into place
-belt grinder used to rough polish it flat
-belt grinder again to finish off the flats
-front radius polished out by hand and blended to the flats
- reblued





