I need someone who speaks Swedish to tell me how to say,
"Moose don't care".
This is a bolt handle on a 9.3 Husqvarna FN action, that was modified by Bubba for a low scope. Now, I am not in any way disparaging their work; I have had many of them that were modified in many ways, most of them functional, if not pretty. This is one of those; it performed all that it needed to; low scope mount, lots of leverage, and the Moose don't laugh.
They (he or she), cut the original handle off, drilled down through the shank for a #6 screw, and proceeded to braze it back on. Harder than solder, softer than a weld. It did break off pretty easily once the screw was removed.
Anyway, I'm welding an FN one back on.

That reminds me of a blog back in the infancy of the internet. A “budget diy gunsmith” chopped of the handle of a military Mauser, then drilled a hole in the stub, threaded it and installed a grade 8 bolt as the handle.

The bolt was epoxied in place and a tactical knob was placed where the next head had been. Tacticool...

Is that one of those left-handed mods? Reach over.

JB Weld perhaps

Boy---That is really UGLY !!!

Hip

I am surprised the braise joint failed. What do you think, poor surface preparation or someone beating on the bolt handle with a block of wood?

https://www.uti.edu/blog/weldi...ng-soldering-welding

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Originally posted by JBrown:
That reminds me of a blog back in the infancy of the internet. A “budget diy gunsmith” chopped of the handle of a military Mauser, then drilled a hole in the stub, threaded it and installed a grade 8 bolt as the handle.

The bolt was epoxied in place and a tactical knob was placed where the next head had been. Tacticool...

That was Steve Wagner's website. That was also back in the day when Turkish M98's were $40 a piece and everybody was suddenly a gunsmith.

Brazed. Braisng is for meat.
I didn't say it failed; I said I broke it with a wrench. On purpose. It would probably have lasted forever as is as long as he didn't have a stuck case.
Penetration was only about 1/16th all the way around.
And the screw actually held it; I removed that first.
Hip; surprised you didn't like it. BTW, the chamber turned out absolutely Perfect.

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Braisng is for meat.

Glad somedody understands semantics.

Good luck putting THAT back into shape! Lord knows how much crap is in there. Maybe TIG brazing it after a nice soak in caustic soda to boil out oils?

Really glad the chamber came out great!

As per the bolt handle----I don't like things that are as UGLY AS ME!

Hip

Copper; not to worry; (no luck required) all that mess gets cut off; remember that FN handles will be welded onto to side of the root, not the bottom like this one was. So, next step is to take my angle grinder with cutoff wheel, my universal body tool, and cut off most of the root, including all the "work" that the previous owner did. So, no problem at all. Come on over and I'll show you.
Hip; it will be much prettier than you when finished. And you can use it as a pry bar. (don't actually do that)
And yes, the chamber cleaned up 100%; sometimes you get a little ridge from the shoulder of the 57mm chamber, but this one didn't.
And actually, you would never want to Braze a bolt handle on, like it is now. Even TIG brazing; no. Brazing, by definition, uses copper, and does not melt the parent metal. Welding, does, and that is what we will do. (OK, Remington does braze on their handles, but it doesn't show)
Looks like they did some silver brazing (yes that term is an oxymoron) on this one.

Yeah but we still don’t have the Swedish translation.

dpcd, yes on the weld. I just thought you were going to try and restore as I can't imagine how another handle could be made to fit the likely horrible gash in the stock!

BTW, I'm a retired weldor. Spent a good part of my life building aluminum boats:

https://imgur.com/XKVOBmX

I do not have the stock. That is the owner's problem. It will have a proper FN handle when I am done.
And yes, I really wanted the Swedish translation!

Word Hippo -"älg bryr sig inte"

That’s an interesting workbench top!

I’m eager to see a photo of the rehabilitated bolt handle when it’s complete.

I just cover it with adhesive shelf paper to make it clean; change it out every couple months.

Speaking of FN. Sarco had these incomplete bolt bodies for only $4.95. Man, I wish I would have bought fifty of them! Let's see If I figured this pic thing out. Here's one I removed and welded to a '94 Brazilian to be finished:

I did buy 50 of them.

I realize that BUT they were advertised as made by FN. And I'm still flummoxed by how in the hell you get a pic to show in the body of a website from the eighties. After several edits to try different ways, everything is gone even links.

EDIT: OK, I finally get it. You have to have permission. So how many years does it take for that to come into effect?

open an account with an image host like

https://postimages.org/

upload images

copy a link into yur AR post.

I cover the tops of my workbenches with 1/4" Hardboard, years ago they called it Masonite. Think of peg board with no holes.

I have two workbenches that were covered about 30 years ago and are just now showing their age.

I also have some of those post 1972 FN rear 3/4 Mauser bolt bodies, still trying to figure out what to use them for.

JW

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Originally posted by copperlake:
I realize that BUT they were advertised as made by FN. And I'm still flummoxed by how in the hell you get a pic to show in the body of a website from the eighties. After several edits to try different ways, everything is gone even links.

EDIT: OK, I finally get it. You have to have permission. So how many years does it take for that to come into effect?

get an image hosting account and post the link. accrel doesn't store the image.

http://forums.accuratereloadin...0106691/m/2431032352

I’ve imported a bunch of Husqvarna 146s based on FN commercial actions. Besides moose notches on the wood, the biggest mods are bolt handles and safeties. There is a neat side safety that locks the bolt as well. So not all mods are bubba style. All the prewar FN actions have a flat spot on the underside of the bolt knob. I hate them and so must have the Swedes. There are two guns in inventory that have had their bolt handles cut off and welded back with the flat knob up. Go figure.

When I checked with them a couple of years ago I was told they had over 5,000 in stock. Someone bought an assload or they have been hidden in the warehouse so they can be "re-discovered". Dateline 2025: "Wow, just found these beauties in the back of the warehouse. We offered these years ago, but quickly sold out. Available again for only $29.99!"

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Originally posted by dpcd:
I did buy 50 of them.

OK, first try with an image in body suggested by richj.

https://i.postimg.cc/BZCZsjfy/IMG-1460-Medium.jpg

Nope. Second try by jeffeoso.

Third try

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Originally posted by copperlake:
OK, first try with an image in body suggested by richj.

https://i.postimg.cc/BZCZsjfy/IMG-1460-Medium.jpg

Take out the asterisks

[I*MG]https://i.postimg.cc/BZCZsjfy/IMG-1460-Medium.jpg[/I*MG]

I give up. Outta here. Maybe someday this site will embrace the 21st century.

And just like that, delloro leads me to the current century! Thank you, thank you. I don't even know how you did that because when I posted, NOTHING showed up to do anything with. Does Win10 have anything to do with this? I ask because I couldn't upload pics @ Castboolits today on my new to me, computer. A site where I have uploaded a lot of pics.

And my original now lost point was welding one of these now unobtainium Sarco FN bolts with handle cut off and welded to a '94 Brazilian waiting for finishing. Lordy.

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Originally posted by copperlake:
And just like that, delloro leads me to the current century! Thank you, thank you. I don't even know how you did that because when I posted, NOTHING showed up to do anything with. Does Win10 have anything to do with this? I ask because I couldn't upload pics @ Castboolits today on my new to me, computer. A site where I have uploaded a lot of pics.

And my original now lost point was welding one of these now unobtainium Sarco FN bolts with handle cut off and welded to a '94 Brazilian waiting for finishing. Lordy.

When you open the window to post there are 12 little boxes on top(a , a pallet, etc.), the 10th one from the left is a little picture(it looks like a polaroid and is to the right of the envelope). Just click on that and it opens a window that asks for your image URL. Just past the URL(https://i.postimg.cc/BZCZsjfy/IMG-1460-Medium.jpg) in and post. Simple as that.

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Originally posted by copperlake:
OK, first try with an image in body suggested by richj.

https://i.postimg.cc/BZCZsjfy/IMG-1460-Medium.jpg

I see the issue... you used a url, just pasted in .. when you are editing a post, the 10th icon, a pic, click that and put the link in there