Slack Breech on Mk2 Meteor

[sjd63]

apols, I'd meant to add this photo to my earlier post.

Picture is not mine, just a reference .

Bowkett breech bolt:

https://c7.staticflickr.com/8/7251/1...024db7ca_h.jpg

[shellymad]

apols, I'd meant to add this photo to my earlier post.

Picture is not mine, just a reference .

Bowkett breech bolt:

https://c7.staticflickr.com/8/7251/1...024db7ca_h.jpg

Hi and welcome SJD63

Thanks for the info and the pic

maybe you are right and the earlier ones did have solid breech jaws - mine is a mk2 super but dont know if I dare take the risk incase I bugger it up

I might try drilling a tiny hole in to see though and make a decision with what I find

[piggy589]

apols, I'd meant to add this photo to my earlier post.

Picture is not mine, just a reference .

Bowkett breech bolt:

https://c7.staticflickr.com/8/7251/1...024db7ca_h.jpg

Going by the raised lugs on the main body and the dovetail in the barrel that's a Mk1.

Just weighed two empty bodies,Mk1 and 2,486 and 503 grams respectively.

Suggesting the breech jaws on both are indeed hollow.

[sjd63]

Going by the raised lugs on the main body and the dovetail in the barrel that's a Mk1.

Just weighed two empty bodies,Mk1 and 2,486 and 503 grams respectively.

Suggesting the breech jaws on both are indeed hollow.

Interesting, thanks.

Perhaps it is 'do-able' with caution then?

I wonder if there is maybe some kind of spacer involved in the Bowkett jaws mod?

I bet somebody who reads his forum has done it, or has a modified model. Perhaps a small chance that they spot this thread!, but maybe they will chime in.

[sjd63]

I'm still hankering after an early Meteor, so still curious on this specific subject, and found this pic.
Supposedly a Mk1 - certainly an early model.

'Hollowness' can be observed by looking at the inside of breech pin locator holes:

http://images.nitrosell.com/product_...1-cylinder.jpg

There is some meat there but not a lot. Not sure I'll be attempting it!

So, having read a bit on the subject now, I gather the main points are that once a Meteor jaws has been satisfactorily corrected in a vice the easier methods to stop them getting slack again are:
To fit a new (or v slightly oversize) breech pin, and new detent pin to tighten things up, then to consider the use of spacer/washers between the stock and its mounting tang beneath the jaws - to secure the stock, but without pulling 'outwardly' on the jaws - and perhaps most obviously, to always cock the rifle in alignment with the action, avoiding any 'sideways' pressures.

Right, enough! - I'm off to find me an old 'un ..

[Shed tuner]

I'Hollowness' can be observed by looking at the inside of breech pin locator holes:

http://images.nitrosell.com/product_...1-cylinder.jpg

I guess you could drill out, weld around the cavity between the walls, filling the hollow in the vicinity of the hole, and then clean up. Would be quite a skillfull job though.