Quote Originally Posted by CapitalBee View Post
Evening all. I have an HW98 barrel I'm thinking of adding to an HW80 project. Has anyone tried filling the stampings on the breech? I'm thinking of spatter welding the area, then dressing it all back to metal before refinishing. Has anyone else done it differently?
I tried dremelling it out, went wrong and ended up with a slightly dished side to the breech block. That was one a HW95 barrel I was sticking on a HW85. RichardH polished the bejezuz out of it and did one of his spectacular re-blues on it so it wasn't so noticeable at first glance, but It Was There..

The barrels are all the same, its annoying they put the numbers on the side. Anything you do will probably show and spoil the finish though, won't it? Best to leave it alone or stick a '0' on the end to make it a HW980. Which is what it is after all... Or get an HW80 barrel and have a shroud like a 98's put on it, then sell the 98 barrel.