Finally got a few spare hours to put things together.

Only fly in the ointment was losing the safety ball bearing out of the 13-77 that was the donor of the 24" bbl for this project. Oh yeah, the XX/SBK bolts wont fit in the LW bbl of the 1701

Did get it together the way I wanted to, with the severely restricted T/P of the 1701 out of the picture. I used 1/4" poly tube under an XX transfer port, and it actually all fits together, without leaking. I don't think I'll be drilling out the flow hole in the valve any time soon~ we'll see how long a string I can get out of it first.

I'm looking forward to seeing how it performs. Got too tired to carry on with shooting/chronying. She's a mean looking midget now, with the long bbl and big banner aboard. Pix to follow.

Regards,

Doc Sharptail