I've got this old gun More corona boredom

[scasa]

So when the LGS closed up I bought all the old junk guns they had prob close to 30 in all. The last day they were open this norinco JW-15 showed up on the used gun rack for 78.00 .I grabbed it up since I'd been looking for one for quite a while for study purpose. It's nothing special other than the action is like brand new and that's the part I wanted. I thought I'd see if it shot decent and maybe make a beater to haul around in the golf cart . Well it was pretty pitiful, best was an inch at 50 yds. So after looking with the borescope Looks like mud dobbers had a nest in the end of the barrel So I thought I'll just lap it then shorten the barrel to about 20 inches. I cast a lap at the muzzle pushed it about halfway down and it was really loose, the last 4 inches at the breech you couldn't hammer it through. Band saw time, Cut off the old barrel pulled the cross pin and pushed out the old barrel stub. I had a .17 cal blank so were going to have a .17 machII. I decided to thread the receiver for the barrel instead of pinning it , so i turned a mandrel as close a fit as I could to the inside of the receiver, locked it in place with a machine screw and with the help of my threading app figured out the threads and threaded it .788x16 It's not perfect but It's real close.Had to go real slow cause it stuck out so far.
The new barrel will be 18 inches so I cut off 18.5 inches of blank and profiled it .950 at the breech to .850 at the muzzle. I hate profiling barrels seems to take all day. It wasn't as bad as that .223 barrel I took a quarter inch off that one.
Now I'm going to have to figure out something for that ugly stock It looks like it was broke then fixed then varnished with a wall paper brush.

 

[snert]

Very cool. Ive often thought the 17 M2 was sadly overlooked. I'd do one if I could do a budget like that!

 

[scasa]

Well another grueling day in the shop but it rained all day so it was good.
Got the barrel set up and the tenion cut and threaded then chambered. The only thing I had small enough to indicate the bore was a test indicator but it worked ok. I used my redneck reamer centering device ( tooling ball glued in a washer to the tool holder) It works really well. I cut the extractor slots with my tool post milling head and the recess for the loading ramp I cut in the mill, Of course I cut it on the top instead of the bottom so now I have two of them.

 

[scasa]

Here is the assembled action / barrel. I'll blue the barrel after I get everything fitted. Tomorrow I'll start on that stock and see what I can do with that.

 

[SSL]

Watching this with interest. One way to salvage an old gun.

 

[Guewithane]

I luv projects like this.
Keep going...

 

[jonbearman]

I had a friend who had a brand new one and it shot pretty good but try to find a mag for it. You did a great job making that gun useful again. Most of their stocks were made of really soft wood unlike AK's that came with Chu wood which is sort of like a harder striped walnut. Let us know how she shoots.

 

[scasa]

Thanks for the kind words.. I bought a CZ 452 mag for mine works perfect.

 

[scasa]

I started today sanding this old wreck of a stock. Someone sanded it without the butt, plate on and rounded the corners off,it was pitiful. Pulled the butt plate off and got everything sanded and cleaned up then bedded the butt plate to the stock with some JB weld so everything is flush


And of course the new barrel was to big for the barrel channel, Back to sanding with sticky paper wrapped around a deep socket. I put a coat of minwax wood hardner on the new bare wood. This wood is really soft.


I needed a break from sanding so made a barrel wrench and an action wrench. Actually only had to make bushings for them

 

[scasa]

Then came more sanding, It seems like everything I do requires sanding. I hate it . Blocked the rest of the stock out looks pretty decent now except for the obvious repair. Gave a coat of wood hardner , I'll let that dry overnight. Then we'll prime tomorrow hopefully.

And for the last thing of the day I blued my barrel. Not much to look at yet hanging there dripping WD-40 but should look ok tomorrow after I wipe it down.


That's it for today. Hope I was able to entertain a little bit.

 

[whatsupdoc]

If I remember correctly that rifle has a block dovetailed into the barrel, are you using the same setup to mount to the stock?

 

[scasa]

your correct there was a piece dovetailed in the barrel . I gave that a lot of thought and decided to eliminate it as I had already bedded the action and the action screw is pretty much in the middle . I never was fond of anchoring the barrel.In my mind I'm better off this way. Of course I could be wrong But it's got to shoot better than it did. Oh and thanks for the link. I always forget about sarco. I'm going to paint this one it's still going to be a beater.

 

[Tommie]

Great post. Keep the updates coming!
Are you planning any trigger work?

 

[nmkid]

This is way better than watching the news!

 

[scasa]

Are you planning any trigger work?

It has an adjustable trigger for sear and overtravel I think . I did shorten the spring and polish the sear area. I'll check the weight when I get it all together.

 

[Catgunguy]

scasa, Thank you for posting this. I am enjoying it immensely.
I would think that is going to be a very good shooter, when done.

 

[scasa]

Thanks for the kind replies! I'm about to wrap this project up . I screwed the barrel and action together and test fired for function this morning, all good . Trigger pull weight 1.5 pounds. I also reblued the trigger guard.

Sanded the stock and primed it.

Another light sanding then painted it with spray on bedliner. Now I know you'll have been looking at Bc'z paint work and admiring the shine. I hope you don't expect to see that here. There might be a little shine but you wont be seeing your reflection in it.


Thats it for tonight

 

[jonbearman]

Was that a broken wrist and did you fix it? It came out really nice. I cant wait to see a target.

 

[scasa]

Was that a broken wrist and did you fix it?

It did appear to have been broken and repaired but was solid so I just worked it over..

I'm pretty anxious to see the target too.

 

[scasa]

It's all together finally and shoots pretty good. I'll have to get some different ammo to try too . It's picky like a .22. The first group 4 in 1 out remington the second group (Pattern) Eley ,third and fourth group remington. Having a full sized scope on it makes it a little hard to run the bolt as there isn't much clearance between the bolt handle and scope. I don't really like the red dot I'll have to figure out something else for a scope. Oh I didn't shoot those groups with the red dot it was a 6x18 BSA sweet 17 . the red circles are .300
Here it is all finished with a $ 1.00 gun show nylon sling. There are several brands of bed liner paint out there and I've tried them all There is only one that works for this Duplicolor, with the red nozzle not the blue