Need a gunsmith to make a flat firing pin and extractor

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Need a gunsmith to make a flat firing pin and extractor

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Do you guys have any recommendations for a gunsmith or toolmaker in the UK? I need a flat firing pin and extractor made, I do at least have samples to provide. These are for my R55 Thompson Center Benchmark rifles. The rifles are out of production and neither T/C nor S&W will provide spares to anybody, not even US residents. So the only remaining option is to have them manufactured.
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Re: Need a gunsmith to make a flat firing pin and extractor

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Extractor:

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Re: Need a gunsmith to make a flat firing pin and extractor

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The extractor and pin:

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Re: Need a gunsmith to make a flat firing pin and extractor

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Have you thought about having a go yourself. This looks to be not too difficult, just time consuming. A bit of flat sawblade or some such looks like it would do the trick.
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Re: Need a gunsmith to make a flat firing pin and extractor

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Unfortunately I don't have the tools or the steel. The pieces have to be exactly the right thickness and they have to be properly hardened. I had three extractors and three pins made by a gunsmith a few years ago and all have since fractured because they were not properly hardened.
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Re: Need a gunsmith to make a flat firing pin and extractor

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You don't need a gunsmith you just need a small engineering machining company. Have a look on the model engineering forum and ask for links to companies local to you that caters for model engineers.
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