Coming Together…
I want to have the rifle able to be disassembled for transport. To do that, I need for the copper part of the inner barrel to be attached to the wooden dowel. I need to make sure everything is nice and straight…
To get the wooden dowel centered in the copper pipe, I chose to use four toothpicks to serve as shims. I drove them in, equally spaced…
I then applied KwikWeld into the end of the copper pipe…
Once the KwikWeld was dry enough, I trimmed it all down…
The same process was then used at the other end of the copper pipe. I now have the copper pipe perfectly centered onto the wooden dowel and is also set in place where it needs to be for full assembly of the rifle…