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Removing Stock on No 1 Mk 3? |
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Posts: 1 (11/09/08 09:18 PM) |
I want to remove the wood to treat the metal on my 1953 No 1 Mk 3 but I have a problem getting the forward-stock removed. I have everything dismantled but
there seems to be something holding it in place just in front on the bolt or at the receiver. Can anyone provide me with instructions or description on the
removal of the wood on these firearms?
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Posts: 3635 (11/09/08 09:49 PM) |
At the top of this Forum there is a link to the Surplus Rifle.com section on the No1 MkIII. When you go to that site there is a page on disassembly, and steps
21 through 23 cover removing the forend from the receiver. I use a block of oak to "drift" the receiver out of the stock. Go slow and be patient.
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Posts: 276 (11/09/08 11:12 PM) |
Listen to the man. He knows his "stuff."
"We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately."
Benjamin Franklin, July 4 1776 |
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Posts: 1708 (02/09/41 03:26 PM) |
I'd use a soft pine drift or any wood drift softer than the fore end.
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Posts: 3636 (11/11/08 12:20 PM) |
I use a small oak block because I drive the receiver out of the stock by tapping on the underside of the receiver. I tried using a soft wood block fashioned
from a 2x4 once and it seemed that most of the force of the hammer blows were absorbed by the soft wood. You just have to be careful.... some of the receivers
seem to be glued into the stock after over 60 years.
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Posts: 1709 (11/13/08 06:59 PM) |
Never tried that method, eagle7. Sorry now that I don't have the need to try your method, which makes eminently better sense than banging away on the
rifle's wood. Thanks.
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Posts: 3641 (11/13/08 09:00 PM) |
Yeah, I find flipping the rifle upside down and tapping on the underside of the receiver (using the magazine well to access the receiver) works well. Just have
an old blanket laid out to cushion the barreled receiver when it falls out of the wood.
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Posts: 1 (11/25/08 03:43 AM) |
there is a small brass pin in some of these rifles neer the trigger guard so if you want to save the wood be careful . I took mine off to put a monte
carlo stock on it.
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Posts: 296 (11/25/08 10:13 AM) active member |
Additionally I hope you have not removed your butt stock BEFORE removing the fore-end ... if you did this you will have likely cracked the fore-end around the
draws due to the stock bolt being squared at the end - the bolt head is kept within a space between the draws and if you attempt to turn a square bolt it will
crack the furniture there.
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Posts: 1735 (11/25/08 10:27 PM) |
TikiRocker wrote:Thanks TikiRocker for the reminder. I once thought that posting such information was "preaching to the choir" but as I grow older, I realize that the present "choir" may well be new enough to the rifle to benefit. Hope that the need outlasts me.
LECS member #2.
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