Originally Posted by
majspud
Snow and more snow. School cancelled today and tomorrow. Gave up on trying to clear the walk; about 30" on the ground here in south Plymouth. Spent three hours clearing the driveway at 20'x40' with my little rinky-dink electric snow blower and drifts as high as my chest.
Got a full Orion 98a spring replacement kit for the Garand. I steeled myself to perform my first full surgery on a Garand, having only done bolts before. I needed to reference three different sources in order to strip it down and put Humpty-Dumpty together again. All SA parts save the milled WRA trigger guard; frame 12-SA, hammer 3-SA, and safety 6-SA. Rifle is a CMP field grade, 358K, 10/41 receiver with a 3+/4 11/46 SA barrel. SA op-rod, with correct GHS/SA stock. When I picked it out at CMP South in June, another shopper looked at it and said the op-rod catch that connected to the follower was HRA, but I found no marks on it save a '12' on the bottom. I forgot to look at the follower arm for a mark.
Took a couple hours for the job, cleaning and re-greasing as needed. Got lucky on the bolt. As I don't have a takedown tool save the M3A1 combo, my thumb pressure on the extractor weakened enough against the stiff new plunger spring, and the new ejector and spring went ballistic, 15 feet up, through the ceiling fan, bounced off the cathedral ceiling, through the ceiling fan again, went between my legs and under the desk (my den is an old in-law apartment over the garage). Fun.:madsmile:
Curious as to how it will shoot with the new springs, but probably a couple of weeks for the range to clear!
T
