Well I got a old High Standard Sentinel bought it for 50.00 bucks sight unseen (It was part of a 2-part deal, the other was a straight up trade). I thought I was stealing it to tell you the truth, was told it needed a cleaning and a rear sight. I was thinking "man how bad can it be", I love a challenge. Well picked up the HS and Lo and behold the rear sight is definately missing, and from the bottom of the dovetail clean thru the aluminum top strap is a nasty crack. I was like damn guess I got the short end of part two, but I have another Sentinal so I figurered I'd keep it for spare parts.
Well got it home and got to looking at it and man this is a nasty crack so I figured lets see if it will shoot I got some 22 shorts and a piece of 4 x 4 and commence to put two in the block. I know risky move, some wouldn't try, but I did oh well. It fired fine, now I'm thinking how can I fix this crack? Thought about trying to get it welded, but I know it is really tough to weld cast aluminum,...... so whats cheap and strong,....easy to work with,.....J.B. Weld! Wait a minute, it may not be strong enough to really hold this on it's own.....lets make a piece of aluminum that perfectly fits in the dovetail backed up buy JB weld above and below, better cut a couple extra grooves on either side of the crack and make the crack itself into a V shape. Wait a minute slow down boy, you must be crazy what kind of hairbrained idea is this? Pictures of Wiley Coyote flash through my head, but what have I got to lose..............
I know, I know it looks a little rough, but hey It looks better now trust me. We will have to see how long it lasts, I should have taken pics in process but I was working...not thinking. The Sentinal is a 5 digit serial number in the first year of production that dates her to 1955 we will see if I can sneak a few more years out of her. Comments are encouraged.
Well got it home and got to looking at it and man this is a nasty crack so I figured lets see if it will shoot I got some 22 shorts and a piece of 4 x 4 and commence to put two in the block. I know risky move, some wouldn't try, but I did oh well. It fired fine, now I'm thinking how can I fix this crack? Thought about trying to get it welded, but I know it is really tough to weld cast aluminum,...... so whats cheap and strong,....easy to work with,.....J.B. Weld! Wait a minute, it may not be strong enough to really hold this on it's own.....lets make a piece of aluminum that perfectly fits in the dovetail backed up buy JB weld above and below, better cut a couple extra grooves on either side of the crack and make the crack itself into a V shape. Wait a minute slow down boy, you must be crazy what kind of hairbrained idea is this? Pictures of Wiley Coyote flash through my head, but what have I got to lose..............
I know, I know it looks a little rough, but hey It looks better now trust me. We will have to see how long it lasts, I should have taken pics in process but I was working...not thinking. The Sentinal is a 5 digit serial number in the first year of production that dates her to 1955 we will see if I can sneak a few more years out of her. Comments are encouraged.
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