Recommendation for a Gunsmith in Bexar County, Who Repairs Rifles & Shotguns.

[satx78247]

Friends,

I need a scope installed (NONE of my allen wrenches is the correct size.) and I also need a recoil pad replaced/installed on my "new to me" Model 760 Remington in 9.3x62mm Mauser.

Any suggestions for a local 'smith that will do "small jobs"??
(The gunsmith that was recommended to me doesn't do "conventional" long arms. - Just handguns & AR's.)

yours, satx

 

[unicom]

If you don't mind the drive armed in America has a gun smith

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[DubiousDan]

Many years ago I had a recoil pad don at Don's Guns, 410 and Fredericksburg Rd and they did a good job. I don't know if the gunsmith is still there but you could give them a call.

(210) 736-0263

 

[satx78247]

DubiousDan; Unicom,

THANKS.

yours, satx

 

[Wezel]

Dury's

 

[satx78247]

Wezel,

I talked to Drury's & was told that the 15-20 minutes of work that I need would cost me between 80-100 bucks. ======> Thanks, but NO THANKS.

Surely there is an independent gunsmith around Bexar County that does small jobs at a reasonable price.

yours, satx

 

[satx78247]

To All,

Now that I've found the CORRECT allen-wrench (at O' Reilly's Auto Parts, of all places) this afternoon, it took me about 10 minutes to correctly install the rings & scope.
(Should any of our local members need this simple job done, you have only to ask.)

Note: The CORRECT size wrench is NEITHER a standard Metric NOR a SAE size. = It's an "odd-ball" size.

I'm neither a fast smith, nor a slow smith; instead, I'm about a HALF-fast (Army-taught) armorer.

yours, satx

 

[TX14239]

Good to hear you were able to find what you needed! I would always rather work on my own guns than have someone else messing with them. Unless it's something I have no clue how to do, and would potentially destroy my firearm...I'd probably at least try to learn to do it myself.

 

[satx78247]

TX14239,

What I "just don't get" is why Redfield decided to use a non-standard size set of screws for those NOS 1970s vintage scope-rings, that is neither SAE nor metric.
(That just had to be a PITA for the company.)

Fwiw, I had ZERO problem doing the installation in < 15 minutes, once I had the correct size allen wrench.)

yours, satx

 

[southtexaspilot]

Well what size was it? Sure it wasn't a torx?

 

[satx78247]

southtexaspilot,

Redfield didn't use torx screws in those days. - This is a set of 1970s NOS rings/mounts. = YEP, an oddball size allen-screw called a T-12.

yours, satx

 

[Dawico]

southtexaspilot,

Redfield didn't use torx screws in those days. - This is a set of 1970s NOS rings/mounts. = YEP, an oddball size allen-screw called a T-12.

yours, satx

That is very odd given Torque wrenches are given the "T" size designation.

Glad you got it sorted out though.

I usually associate odd size fasteners with cheap Chinese junk. If they are original (American made probably if from the '70s) that is a very odd animal you have there.

 

[satx78247]

Dawico,

AGREED. = According to the computer at the auto parts store, the correct size allen-wrench is the proper size to fit the fastenings on a GM fuel injection system. = That's why the store had that size wrench in stock.
(I cannot say why Redfield decided to use that weird size in the '70s.)

yours, satx

 

[Younggun]

T anything is a "Torx" bit, not Allen, lol.

You just bought an uncommon size Torx.


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[satx78247]

Younggun,

I suppose that it's possible that Redfield made ONE (or a very few) rings/bases in Torx in the early 1970s (when they were making all their other similar products in SAE allen sizes) BUT I suspect that they know what they made back "in the day". = Are you SURE that >40 years ago that what things were "called" then is the same as in 2016??
(O'Reilly's computer also calls what "fits" an allen wrench for some of the "old school" GM fuel injection systems.)

Unlike some here, I'm FAR from a "tool expert" or for that matter an "expert" in anything but SNORING, which I'm reliably told that I do quite well.

yours, satx

 

[Younggun]

Allens will fit certain Torx screws, and certain Torx bits/wrenched will remove certain Allen head screws. But that also often leads to stripped screws or bits.


T#s however, have always applied to Torx where hex/Allen wrenches have always been measured in fractions of inches or millimeters. Never by a numbering system.


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[London]

Next time you might want to take the screws down to the tool store and see if you can find something with the same size threads but with a more reasonable sized head. They will have something in the nuts and bolts section bolted to the wall which will allow you to find out exactly what size your threads are. It looks like this:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51p3YtSHqyL.jpg

Can't tell you how many times I've done this for my motorcycle. Of course you'll have to paint them black. If you need torx bits, Harbor Frieght is the best place I know to look.

 

[TX14239]

What did the tool end up looking like? I know allen heads have 6 flat edges...TORX normally look like stars.

Either way... Glad you got it figured out. No idea why they'd use odd-ball hardware. =/

 

[Bozz10mm]

Torx may also be what used to be call a star drive. What with Star Trek and all, they had to change the name.

 

[satx78247]

TX14239,

6 flat sides in the screw heads. = Allen wrench.

yours, satx