Well folks, yesterday afternoon I took a ride over to BBS member, steveo's house in Tamworth and picked this up which Steve kindly donated to the cause --- thankyou once again Steve. :-

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Now here's the slight problem, I incorrectly thought that the HW80 had the plug joint 6mm back from the breech face like a HW35. :-


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But it doesn't, the HW80 breech joint is in line with the breech face. :-


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This means the breech plug diameter on the HW80 is 30mm right up to the breech face, so if I set the 32mm OD Mercury tube back from the breech face to allow for welding I'll have a step down to the 30mm plug which isn't ideal.
The answer is to fill the top step with weld and then hand finish the top breech face to correct things, which is a bit of a pain --- I won't bother with the bottom breech face too much as nobody will see it once the action's in the stock.


On the up side though --- my ally trigger didn't turn out too bad. :-


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All the best Mick