Replacing Meteor hinge pin with Bolt

[look no hands]

Would anything like chemical metal be good enough, you could fill the gaps up with that, it can be drilled and taped if needed when fully hard.

[NickG]

How about, if there is room between the jaws for shims , replace them with a top hat style bush that fits from the inside, and braze it in .

[crowbar]

Drill and tap 10mm through pivot hole ,cut two slugs off a 10mm bolt after drilling a pilot hole and glue into jaws,ream through
and tap to finish .

[evert]

If you fit an oversize pin that actually fits the breech and the barrel (the OEM Meteor bolts ar almost always undersied, I fit cut down Supersport bolts in mine), and then squeeze the jaws gently in a vise, you really dont need anything more.

[Dornfelderliebe]

Thank you Gents considerable food for thought there. I've just been looking at the pin more carefully and this what I did not expect to see.
The whole pin is blued but there are two polished rings at each end where the inner and outer jaw walls are.
Between these, there is a distinct band of unworn bluing corresponding the space between the jaw walls.
The centre part of the pin has almost no wear to the bluing suggesting to me that the pin, which was a very tight fit in the breach block, has not been turning within the breech block and therefore the jaws have acted as bearings.

[evert]

Thank you Gents considerable food for thought there. I've just been looking at the pin more carefully and this what I did not expect to see.
The whole pin is blued but there are two polished rings at each end where the inner and outer jaw walls are.
There is a distinct band of unworn bluing corresponding the space between the jaw walls.
The centre part of the pin has almost no wear to the bluing suggesting to me that the pin, which was a very tight fit in the breach block, has not been turning within the breech block and therefore the jaws have acted as bearings.

That is quite normal. The locking chisel on the Meteor/mercury/supersport pinches the pin/bolt, so it has to fit very tight in the jaws if you expect it to not rotate while cocking the gun.

[Dornfelderliebe]

Thank you Evert as usual the more I think I know the more I realise I don't know.
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