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Demo at the school, Part 3 on the wood shop

With my normal job I do a great deal of work with construction companies and home owners who are doing remodels. In this post I was doing some work for a construction company that was getting ready to demo an elementary school. My first question is always is there anything I can use and how long do I have to take it down.

In the case of this school they were going to save nothing and I could have anything I want but it had to be out of there by Friday at 2pm. They told me this on Tuesday at noon. So the race was on to remove all the cabinets that I could and still work my normal job.

To accomplish this I would leave the house at 4AM to arrive at the school by 5AM to start the demo work and be done by 8AM to start my work day.

There were 4 rooms of cabinets. Here are a couple of pictures showing all the cabinets and the crap that was in them. This was the start of the project.

After I cleaned out the cabinets.

This is me working on removing the upper cabinets.

As the cabinets were taken down my wife and I would load they into the truck and she would take them home and I would unload them and start cleaning them off to get heady to hang them in the wood shop and the fab shop.

The top of the cabinets had 3/4 particle boards glued and screwed on. To remove the cabinets they had to cut apart on the top and bottom. This is what they look like when they were taken apart.

I started with a pry bar to remove the majority of the particle board then went in with a chisel to removed the remaining material.

With all the prep work completed the cabinets are ready to hang up.

Another Webley pistol

By now I am sure most of you know that I like Webley pistols. A friend of mine came by the house to show me a new Webley that he just added to his collection. This is a Webley Mark IV in 22lr.

You can see the serrated trigger.

The added height of the rear sight.

The markings indicating that it is a 22lr pistol.

A nice view of the Webley flying bullet.

The back of the cylinder showing the 22lr chambers

The back plate of the 22lr pistol

A comparison of a 38 and 22lr pistols

Left view

This is one of those pistols I would really like to have in my collection.

The wood shop and Library, Part 2

The wood shop flooring had serious termite issues and it had to be dealt with.

I tried just cutting around the inside of the shop and treat it that way. No luck on that, the termite issue was to extensive.

At this point in the game it was determined to remove the flooring, starting with the maple tongue and grove flooring.

And there was a pile of it.

Then the sub flooring came up next.

To do this task was a large task as all the sub flooring had been installed with special hardened nails.

To accomplish this all the equipment had to be moved a number of times.

With the flooring removed it was time to check the walls. More termites. All the sheet rock was removed from the wood shop and about 1/2 of the studs replaced.

It was at this point I decided to correct some of the electrical problems and original wood shop issues.

After the sheet rock was put up the walls were painted.

This took several weekends as the equipment had to be moved every time we started a new section of the wood shop.

Part 3 next

More on the new Library/ wood shop part 1

The story behind the Library and wood shop changes started with the termite issues and has grown into some serious changes. My initial idea was to do a series of videos showing the scope of the work but that would take weeks to edit and it would take away from all the other projects going on here at gun lab. Instead I will show a photo expo and the steps taken to accomplish all the work.

Initially my wood shop looked like this.

Not any more.

Now for the rest of the story.

This area is the covered walk way around the wood shop. The walls had damage as did the upstairs deck. the deck was replace with 2×10’s and 1″ decking.

The walk way was framed in and sealed. The windows were removed and framed in.

The original outside covering was removed and recovered with OSB and then sheet rock.

Once it was painted it was time to move the hardware store over. Again this was no small task.

We had everything from plumbing fittings to nails and screws in there. It would have made an ACE Hardware store jealous.

We are still working on organizing it but currently it is about 70% completed.

The continuing story coming, Part 2 soon.

VG1-5 update 8-19-18

It has been a while since I have posted an up-date on the VG1-5 project.

The fire control groups have all been assembled and tested. The top covers have been fitted to the rifles. Here are a few pictures of the rifles getting ready for the next operation.

A quick video

Update on the VG1-5 The new trigger guard

With mainly doing the hand fitting on the rifle we are correcting a few problems that have come up. This issue is the trigger guard. The original design that we had did not have the correct look and was actually to close to the trigger it self.

The solid models for the new design trigger guard.

After shearing to the proper width and the guide pin holes drilled in.

The first style trigger guard. This was all wrong and also left no room for the trigger.

The second style increased the space for the trigger, but the angle of the stock lower support was incorrect and the lower stock support was now to short.

The shape and the diameter looks a great deal better with this new design.

There was a great deal of stretching with the single hole design

We went from a single hole design to a two hole design that later will be machined off and a single rivet hole installed.

The series of design changes to the trigger guard

After the first couple of ops.

After the second pressing

The older style trigger guard required a great deal of work to fit up and the angle was still not correct. Neither was the actual diameter size.

How the new design trigger guard fits

A video of the process.

The loss of another great guy

I am sad to announce the passing of R. Blake Stevens.

https://necrocanada.com/obituaries-2018/robert-blake-stevens-october-16-1938-april-22-2018/#.Wt_19X8h1EY

I have known Blake for over 30 years. It was his great books that open the world to collectors the world over. He will be missed.

The never ending Library and termite project

It has been a couple of weeks with out a library update so here goes.

The stucco has been stripped off of the walls

The windows have been removed from the wood shop.

All the new framing is complete. The door to the old store room has been removed.

The damaged caused by the termites to the 2×4 stud wall

more damage

The insulation is now upon the ceiling.

And on the walls

Sheet rock was then next.

The new pocket door was installed between the new hardware store and the library

Everything has been tapped and coated with mud.

The termites have gotten into the maple flooring.

Started stripping out the maple flooring.

Still not done removing the flooring but a big pile of scrap flooring.

More to come.

Webley Mk 6 22

Another post on Webley revolvers. This is a 22 version of the Webley Mk 6. According to the book “The Webley Story” this pistol was built as a target pistol for training and practice on short distance ranges.