My RG-G!

Hi everyone. I hope I\'m not the only one that\'s building a gun right now. I made my first part in 2003 and a couply more it 2005 and have been working on the bolts during a holliday vacation. After looking at some of the beautiful guns on this site I\'m almost ashamed to show mine.  When it\'s finished it will probably be like a \"Rat Rod\". Shoots good but not all polished up. I started out building two RG-Gs because I was doing all the machining at work. By the time you set up a CNC to make a part you may as well make two. There are a lot of hard parts left to make. I have a question I hope someone can answer. I\'m about ready to solder the bolts together. Will a MAP gas torch be hot enough to do the job? I\'ll try to post some photo\'s of part if I can figure out how to do it...

Thanks All

R-R

HI, I think everybody is on vacation for the past week or so. The map gas torch is hot enough for soft soldering, but if you are going to hard solder or braze then you will need to get the parts almost red hot.

I\'m about halfway through a very long-term RG, but don\'t have any real progress to post.

MAPP or Propane will be ok for silver-soldering the RG bolts if you want to go that route, they\'re small.  Build a little hearth out of firebricks (preferably the soft ones) to keep the heat in.

Thanks Burski & Shred  
I was just going to clamp them in the vice and hit them with the torch. What are the alternatives to solder? Where I work, we have some frist class welders and I thought of chamfering the recoil pin and the bolt housing on the muzzle end and having them weld them in and/or drill through them both and put a hardened pin in. I guess there are a lot of possibilities. Have you thought of any alternatives? :?:

HI R-R, If you have access to a good tig welder that can put down a tiny bead where it counts, then I would do like you said chamfer the front and also drill a hole where the set screw is larger and plug weld it. That way the cleanup is all doable with the lathe. Bruski