Repairing a Remington 1900 Double Barrel Shotgun | MidwayUSA Gunsmithing 

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Larry, Your apron is way too clean

@@tavaresgivans3320 gotta say, youre absolutely right

He was a gunsmith before he made it big. And his wife really pushed him and the company to keep growing.

if i had the same kind of job as him i would happily do what i can to match his expertise in repairing shotguns and other weapon types

​@@john34261 his forging skill's are laughable that is not call upsetting when he was flat spreading he's using a cast iron vice as his anvil good way to crack your vice and thats the worst way to heat treat YES HE'S A GREAT GUNSMITH but not a good black smith

Amen!

@@hemidart7 The metal spring was far from the vice especially the portion being heated, the iron would need to be heated itself to be malleable at all.

@@lowsi3153 he was using the vice as an anvil it is cast iron it can CRACK! so I don't know what your talking about... nothing to do with heating and making anything malleable that's for sure

same

@@Alexander-jr8nw Because so many calibers and firearms innovations were created with the Imperial system (in the US), quite often you will see (for example calibers) measured in fractions of an inch. (IE 12.7mmx99 = .50 BMG, or 9mm Short = .380 ACP)

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Sir, we love and salute your skills

Genius.

A blowtorch, ballpeen hammer, hacksaw, files, and a vice. That's all you need to fabricate this simple springs. Even that salt-heater thing isn't necessary, the torch will temp metal fine if you watch for the color change.

Larry Potterfield is a beast.

y not just replace it... YOURE MIDWAY U.S.A. FOR CRYING OUT LOUD... I KNOW Y"ALL GOT ONE LAYING AROUND...

War Crime Stick Watching Henti Considering the fact that he specifically mentioned that an example part was *from another Remington,* this is no secret.

maybe 200 in tools and supplies on the high end a 30 dollar propane plumbers torch replaces the only expensive tool he used and we all own hammers

I would have tig welded new material on the hook AND installed a factory-size pin, ensuring 100% original matching faces between pin and hook.

Why not just replace the piece at that time point

Surely shimming is more sympathetic to a 100+ year old piece?

@@GsyMoo A firearm is a tool that has to safely operate and if you aren't prepared to do the required repairs it might need you're better off hanging it on the wall instead. The Remington 1900 is neither a rare or an expensive shotgun and doing repairs properly gives it a prolonged life whereas a quick fix might make it worse in the long run... But at the end of the day its up to the owner of said firearm how to go about doing any repairs, but I ensure all my firearms are in pristine condition and any repairs are made with function as the most important factor, not looks, and a broken firearm will never bring any joy.

@@JensAndree Good point 👍

You need to buckle down and focus on what really matters. The term paper can wait.

LMAO! Don’t smother your interests!

Just finished my 2nd day of finals and I’m watching how to fix a gun I don’t even own

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I second your statement on cars and guns.

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You have cleraly never restored an old winchester, lol. So many screws and moving parts, lol.

@@Mr.Hopper1 Well he did say "most of the time", of course some older weapons will be much more difficult to replace as firearms were still developing back then. If you want a really difficult old firearm to fix you should try an early model maxim.

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Won't fixing it effect the collector value for resale? Many gunsmiths are reluctant to work on old guns for that reason and others.

@@chrismc410 It's been repaired for to working order for someone who wants to use it. A collector's item doesn't have to work because it very likely won't be used. You'll see plenty of very old firearms in collections that haven't ever been fired by their current owners.

@@serch3ster some people want to squeeze off a few rounds with old guns. They often want to know if it still can shoot, even out of curiosity.

@@serch3ster I never saw the point in having a gun you don't shoot. Unless it's sentimental

Also shouts out for fixing this Remington made 6 miles from home. Saving the guns that were made by real men, not the trash they pump out today.

which also makes them a bit of a trick to work on. you cant just buy and drop in parts. even if you can find replacement parts they have to be hand fit

The type of quenching depends entirely on the type of steel alloy used. I worked as a toolmaker in a shop that built injection molds, where we did a lot of heat treating of different types of tool steel such as A2, D2, S7, O1, 440C stainless etc, all of which have very specific temperature requirements as to heat treating and tempering, as well as soak times in the furnace depending on the size of the parts. Some were air quenched, some oil quenched, some water quenched. These guys on TV making knife blades using guesswork and eyeball methods to heat treat are good for a laugh, especially when you see the outcome. I've known a couple of classically trained blacksmiths that could do a better job. I will say however, that Larry's methods have been used successfully to make gun springs by a few generations of gunsmiths with good results, and it's a skill that's built on practice and learning what does and doesn't work by trial and error experience. The man can definitely make a spring.

Les canettes c'est de l'aluminium, suite aux frottements ça s'usera plus rapidement 😢