JimT wrote: ↑Mon Jul 10, 2023 10:33 pm
He got it back together.
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Yours should go like that also.
The only thing differently that I do is I usually put the lever and locking lugs in after I have the tang installed.
You might try that.
Sometimes it helps to have another set of hands to help hold things. Anyone you can get to help?
Thank you Jim,I really appreciate you looking at the videos for me
I think that my main issue was the fact that the paper clip that I use pulled up inside the hammer spring and the hammer strut was at an odd angle,I will use a Big a sewing needle or as small a nail as I can find to keep the spring captured so I do not have
This type of issue again.
I ended up having to grap ahold of the hammer strut where it first meets the spring to pull it far enough that the spring capture on the lower tang
would allow the end ot the strut to go through the hole.
While I was in there I cut one coil off the ejector spring and took an inch and a half off the Magazine spring both in an attempt to lessen the difficulty loading it.
I was not quite sure what you meant in your article abpout de-tensioning the loading Gate spring,whether you meant removing the Loading gate and bending it or just Depressing the Loading gate repeatedly to give it a set?
Also the gun will feed some 357 Magnum semi wadcutters I loaded back in my teens just a tad stiffly.
The Remington 158 grain Hollowpoints after being run through the action several times are bunged up on one side .
Maybe need a tad of polishing where the bullet goes into the Chamber?
Again thanks for your help
Craig
Oh ,as far as help around here goes my Wife is over 1,000 miles from here visiting with her Momma and will be for another week or so ,so it is just me and our 4 Kitties,they give me a lot of moral support although I am sure that they have never heard some of the words that I used while working on this Carbine !