Another week

while not a fan this mob,i tend to think they are handling it right so far,but do have concerns about all these planes coming in from india and else where over next few days,if they stuff that up we will be in for more lock downs etc.dont think any other government here would have done it any different mate,nothing changed much around here tho,we dont have much contact for long periods with the outside world any way,so life continued pretty much as usual here,hows it been your way??

well i have had a good week,spent much of the week finishing the parts and polishing them and case hardening them for my pcp revolver project,bout time got my a into g and finished this gun,as hadnt done anything much to it for the last year,been a while since i had done any case hardening and totally enjoyed doing it,the Cherry Red case hardening powder i use is dead simple  to use and results allways excellent,hard enough so a file wont mark them,good nuf for me hard enuf i need to use a stone to get final fit and finish. lot small interlocking and interacting parts in a revolver and all need to work perfectly for a revolver to function correctly,and the mechanical working parts in the pcp revolver a little more complicated than a firearm,took me a good while to get all these parts right and functioning correctly,and was bit worried some might twist when hardening,but all came out perfectly,never know how things going to go when hardening small weird shaped parts,dosnt take much for them to warp out of shape when heating then qeuching them,bit of a lottery at times,and a real bugger if warp and have to make them all over again too,was lucky this time,so thats a bonus,i used to make my working gun parts from tool steel but didnt have much luck with them after hardening tool steel hardens right thru,leaving small weird shaped parts prone to warping,they allso with small parts can end up brittle if not annealed correctly so gave up on tool steel years ago,mild steel case hardened works better for my purposes,any way had lot fun doing this over past few days,and still have hammer and trigger to go.

used to have quite a few spinning targets but my pcps destroyed them all,got a 3mm thick stainless steel plate here thats all twisted outa shape on several holes thru ,its been hit in same places so many times.

have had some pretty mean as 22 cal pcp guns over the years,my two korean rifles both were very capable of 80/100 fpe with heavy 32gr pellets and up to 40 gr cast bullets,but my 32fpe pistol and 35fpe rifle will destroy steel plate and targets easily enough as well with heavy 21/25 gr pellets,particually if pellets are constantly hitting in same place for any length of time,they will evenually punch a hole thru tough 3mm stainless plate,this plate will stop a 40gr hi vel 22 rimfire bullet for many shots but the rimfire will eventually punch a hole as well.pellets and bullets vapourise but dump all their energy on steel plate,so will eventually punch holes thru,hi vel firearms jacketed bullets will penertrate quite thick plate andthe copper jacket never goes thru but the soft lead core will penertrate every time,go figure that one eh!!been lot of stuff published on why lead projectiles will penertrate steel plate when the jackets dont,no one has yet come up with a definative answer why this happens,logic should dictate the lead shouldnt do this but it does eh as its much softer the steel.