HW80 Restoration finished!

[frontend loader]

Before-
after-
This one had been left in a damp shed for years and wouldn't cock.The barrel was bent and the breech face damaged.After ages of looking for a standard barrel I found a theoben stamped barrel off an 85k and fitted that.The actions on these two guns were quite badly pitted and it was a real test of my patience getting them all out with out rippling all the metal and rubbing things off like the scope rails! I didnt do the blacking just the polishing.
The stocks I spray painted after applying several coats of tinted 2k laquer,followed by a clear one I finally made the crappy beach look reasonable.
sorry the pictures of the 80 are not very good,mobile phone in doors.
Next project is a 300s junior,it needs all the above treatment

[danny20]

good work mate

[MattyBoy]

Nice one Pat

2 stocks coming your way soon...

[hilton]

Nice one mate if only I could find one to restore like this! Too scared to dismantle my 1989 model

[windygap]

congratulations well done.

[audi80]

Nice job . Well done that man.

[Phil G]

Excellent job, enjoy

Good luck, Phil

[RichardH]

Looks fantastic Pat

[roughcoat]

Before-
after-
This one had been left in a damp shed for years and wouldn't cock.The barrel was bent and the breech face damaged.After ages of looking for a standard barrel I found a theoben stamped barrel off an 85k and fitted that.The actions on these two guns were quite badly pitted and it was a real test of my patience getting them all out with out rippling all the metal and rubbing things off like the scope rails! I didnt do the blacking just the polishing.
The stocks I spray painted after applying several coats of tinted 2k laquer,followed by a clear one I finally made the crappy beach look reasonable.
sorry the pictures of the 80 are not very good,mobile phone in doors.
Next project is a 300s junior,it needs all the above treatment

Nice job mate lot of time and effort gone into that

[basa]

well done,looks well.