Engine planning 101
This one is always overlooked.
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I will check that one out! I love the old school books back before everyone relied on machines and computers to do all the hard work.
When I first got into gunsmithing I bought this book and it was helpful for some stuff but every time I'd get in a tough spot and couldn't find the answer. I would start reading and he would say do this and this and if that dont work take it to a qualified gunsmith. Grrr that doenst help me if I am the gunsmith lol I dont like taking stuff to someone else to fix my stuff. I am a diyer!
I finally found a few books that really helped one was written in the late 40s right after ww2 ended and all the military surplus started rolling in to the USA and all the gunsmiths started sporterizing mausers 1903s nagants Enfields etc. The author was so old school it was crazy this gu had a section in his book about setting a barrel face back with a file by hand!!! I'm sure alot of you dont know what that means but basically he was filing the flat surface that sets against the bolt face that sets the most important measurement in a firearm the headspace. Basically this is the equivalent of boring a cylinder bore with a dremel! Lol
But that just proved to me that anything can me done with little money if you set your mind to it and put in the work!!