I would use silver steel and leave soft. Better that the pin wears than the expensive cocking lever.
Regards Max
hope you had a goodun bud
I would use silver steel and leave soft. Better that the pin wears than the expensive cocking lever.
Regards Max
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I'd use silver steel and leave it soft. It will be tougher so less likely to fail if it gets a shock. Having a pin wear a bit is less likely to hurt someone than having it totally fail.
I've used a roll pin before now when I couldn't be bothered to twat about.
And before anyone says anything --- Webley did the same with Hawks and Vulcans.
My Mercury and HW35 have had roll pins in for the past ten years and my Webley Hawk that I got for my fourteenth birthday present in 1975 are still all working well with no problems to date.
I forgot to say in my previous post --- fit the roll pin with the slot at the top.
With a roll pin fitted you can lubricate the cocking link by squeezing grease into the ends of the pin with your fingers --- it squeezes out the exposed slot into the cocking link hole.
Or you could just buy a dowel pin?
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