FINISHED IT.... So I had this spare No4 action, and a Jungle carbine barrel...
Hey folks, for the past few weeks, I've been working on this one on and off.
Before the holidays, I bought a parts lot; in there was a decent jungle carbine barrel.
A few weeks later, I thought about what to do with it.
Looking at the "donor bin", I find an ugly No4 action. It had been spray painted with tremclad (very badly - moving parts were no longer moving, stuck in paint...)
I got to work. Stripped the paint, removed the rust, reblued (cold). Put the barrel on the action...
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I didn't want to order the repro stock from Numrich (I find it's slightly not to scale with the original Jungle forend). I took a slightly bruised No4 forend. I cut it as far forward as I could while avoiding cutting into the lightening holes. I cut part of the forend tip, and screwed / glued it to the shortened forend.
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Then, fun with the band sander. The Jungle forend is quite slimer than the No4..
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I dediced to use the No4 forend metal "cap" to make the jungle forend cap:
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I cut it in half, and did a tiny bit of mig welding to have it stay in place. I still have to clean up the weld.
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What about the rear receiver "band", or ring, which holds the handguard in place? I didn't want to remove the flash hider to slide the ring in place (or remove the barrel again... Mind you I should have thought about that when the barrel was off!). So I cut the ring open, twisted it a bit, put it around the barrel, and mig welded it back together.
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Time to carve the recess for the middle band:
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And fix one of the screw holes in the butt stock (it was off by quite a bit)
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Test fitting of the parts...
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I still have to do final finishing of the parts, and adjust the trigger pull, but that's about it. Almost done...
Lou
