This first picture is of the rollers the lever and main spring/hammer springs run against.   They were simply turned on the lathe.  Still need heat treating.

The work of making springs is now in process.

The second picture is the trigger spring, which is the first and easiest to make.  The material is 1075 flat spring stock .035 thick.  The screw is shop made and needs slotting yet, but I need to know how much clearance I have with the main spring first, I might need to reduce the thickness.
Bob 

I had made the springs and heat treated them but when the main spring was tested it broke.  Don't know why because I did both springs the same way, same material, and the lever spring is fine.  I'm thinking, I did work it quite a bit while trying to get the bend correct for the rebound feature to work and this may have setup unseen fractures that fail in the test.  The first spring was made from 1080, but I decided to make the second from 1075.  Both materials have work well for me, but I found a piece of 1075 I had ordered and it was the correct thickness for this spring.   

So while the heat treating was being done on this new spring,  I decided to rough out the shape of the lever since I had been procrastinating on it.

So, back to my manual CNC machine.  Since this is the final working lever, all the machining at the front, was completed earlier for the operation of the action.  All I am showing here is the shaping of the trigger and finger loop.

In this first picture I have completed the roughing out of the inside of the trigger loop and the front of this loop.  When I do this I set the depth of the cut .015 off the mill table.  The thin flange that is left is cleaned up with files.  This flange can be seen in these pictures.

For the inside of the finger loop I drilled several holes to remove much in the wast material and then milled out the rest, leaving a margin for the final pass.  Second picture.

The third pictures show this margine that was left.

Fourth shows what the inside of the loop looks like when completed on the mill.  This surface still needs cleanup and  final shaping, which is done with files.

Last picture is showing the lever completed to this point and assembled to the frame.
Bob

This is exciting… a firing, working rifle now. Way to go Bob.

bobw wrote on Apr 20^th, 2025 at 5:46pm:


Whatever shape or progress you get done, I sure hope to look at it at Greeley! As always, excellent work Bob!

Longdistance1 wrote on Apr 21^st, 2025 at 6:21pm:


I will test it for safety sake soon, but since the wood is still to be attached and shaped, any target work is a ways off.
Bob

Bob do you plan on ultimately having this gun engraved?

Yes it should have some tastefully applied engraving...



JMH

No Bob I dare say you haven’t missed a thing and I wouldn’t be capable of spotting it if you did. It is looking great.