I gave up 

Hi Folks,

Does anyone use Gordon's Reloading Tool?

I need to extract the archive and post it somewhere else, but nothing seems to work.

Can someone please give advice?

Quote from: oafpatroll on Sep 09, 2025, 08:11 AMThank you for your dedication to this cause snek. You have been at it for a long while and the work you do behind the scenes is appreciated.

Just being honest again, like I've said to you on WhatsApp, I'm now basically just observing & sharing, not so much "fighting" or "participating" any longer, you and about 8 other people really tried, we tried to get something going, my expectations was at least 100 to 150 people blasting out emails, sharing, commenting etc...
Yes and I understand, this sort of thing is not what you want to do in your free time voluntarily, it takes it toll, people have jobs, families, responsibilities etc.
But thanks for your effort as well.
If I were a multi millionaire or billionaire, this would have been very different indeed.

There has been quite some playing around with firing pins in regard to accuracy/travel time. Heavy pins traveling long distance like the old Mausers to the other idea of a micro travel with a heavy spring. The other side of the try outs was ultra light pins with fast springs and every combination of trying to achieve small travel time with enough power to strike effectively and yet not have to use springs that caused their own issues.

Quote from: Againstthegrains on Sep 09, 2025, 10:26 AMI sense the presence of a troll in our midst's

It does what it says on the tin 

I once read about a firing pin made from titanium or some similar metal - strong, but much lighter than steel to enhance the traveling time.

Now that is interesting  !!

Suspected this was a spring problem, so went to Bruce at Valley Trading for a spring.

He pulled out an assembled P14 firing pin from a draw, and I immediately noticed the difference in the cocking piece.

About 12mm of material had been milled away on mine, reducing the firing pin travel by that much on firing.

The replacement is on top in the below picture, the old one on the bottom.

According to Bruce, it was fashionable at one time to do this modification to get the bolt to close faster, but then it needed a much stronger firing pin spring that could do the same job over shorter travel.

Quote from: oafpatroll on Aug 29, 2025, 01:17 PM

Quote from: Againstthegrains on Aug 29, 2025, 10:04 AMSurely that wasn't done by a farmer. Its a bull, not a cow

How dare you question what the cow chooses to identify as. One of HER allies was clearly compassionate enough to assist in expressing HER identity. Some introspection is in order.

I sense the presence of a troll in our midst's