Gentlemen
   Does anyone have the take down plate for an 1885 High Wall or know someone who makes them?   I am doing a fire rescue on an 1885 vintage 1913.   The  barrel for this piece had been replaced with a 22-250 barrel and throwing out the plate before throwing the gun to the fires.   I am expecting that I will have to make the part so if anyone has drawings of the snubber screw and little parts I would appreciate it.   I have tried the usual places with little or no luck.   One guy wanted half the price of parts gun for just the stripped out plate.

Frank makes all of the parts and with luck may have some on hand.
Cheers,
Laurie

+1 to rafter3c.  I did a review on them for the Journal as soon as they came out and was totally blown away.  Not only do they fit up perfectly, look good on the gun, etc, etc, but they come with as detailed a set of instructions as I have ever seen.  Any competent machinist with a rudimentary sense of how firearms work should be able to fit a barrel to an original frame using them... they are that well written. 

As to building a take-down rifle action from a casting, I would encourage you to use the proper lug, then time the action to the lug so that your end product would be more useful if you decided to expand your horizons and make it multi-barrel as well.  JMHO. 

Froggie

The instructions with the lug assume you are working with an unaltered original receiver, so no machining on it is needed (nor desirable!)  My point on the one you want to make was that if you DID machine it to match the original, you would gain interchangeability from the start.  This would be a moot point if you are going to do all of the work on the new rifle to your own set of specs.  Actually, I'm not sure that there is enough "meat" on the front of most castings to replicate the original receiver... it's about as much longer as the depth of the flange for the fore end.

Froggie

Several yeas back I made 10 frame extensions for the 95 Winchester which I have been told uses the same as the 85. I had to make all the jigs and measuring parts for one so I just went ahead and made more while I was at it. I have only one left and I only needed one at the start of the project. Getting them to time properly required a threaded stub with a timing witness mark. They were a bit of a pain to figure out but they did work. Now I'm in the process of making frame extensions for the 92/94. VTI shows them for the 92 at a very good price but they can't get them. Even if they could the thread size and timing may not be right. This has been a learning experience and I'm at the point now of making a "cam grinder" that will grind the OD to match the action. I don't want to polish them on the action for fear of taking the finish off the action. One of these is going on an original that letters from Winchester  being sold as a two barrel set, high value.

The barrel extension lug for the single shot is different from all the other Winchester extensions, because it is for a single shot!  You don't have to have a place for the mag tube to go through, so that's where the adjustment screw is found.  I went through all of this (to my extreme frustration) when I was starting work on my take-down high-wall years before Frank went into production. 

Froggie

Cool!  The 95 may indeed take the same (or an adaptable) lug, then.  I got all excited about finding one for a 97 shotgun until I noticed that honkin' big hole for the magazine tube right there in the bottom where the adjusting screw should have been. 

Good luck with your multi-barrel project... that's what I want to do (long term) with the thick side high-wall take-down I am using as a schuetzen rifle right now.  Multi-barrels are way, waay cool! 

Froggie