Hi
Is there a trick or something to push the magazine catch pin out? I tried to simply push it out using a flat metal tool but the pin won't budge. Tried it bolt forward and back and nothing seems to work. The gun is caked in cosmo....
Thanks!
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Hi
Is there a trick or something to push the magazine catch pin out? I tried to simply push it out using a flat metal tool but the pin won't budge. Tried it bolt forward and back and nothing seems to work. The gun is caked in cosmo....
Thanks!
It's just stuck.
Plus one.Quote:
Originally Posted by browningautorifle
A BRASS or COPPER Drift, & a LIGHT tap with a Hammer SHOULD move it. NEVER use a LOT of force on a pin this size though! :madsmile:
Thanks guys, brass drift and a few light taps with a hammer did it. I have literally never seen so much cosmo before, pin was stuck from dried cosmo. Must have laid in a warehouse since the 50ies I suppose.
In the museum that I "curate" (Is that the correct term?) we often come across electromechanical devices, for example IBM Selectric ("golfball") typewriters, on which the grease has set like glue.Quote:
Originally Posted by Beginner
Tell me about it.......... I see 40's telescopes jammed up solid with dried up grease. Add that to some sealing mastic that's gone like concrete that only intense heat will break down.
Funny we never heard from beginner again............
Post #5 he told us he'd been successful tapping it out...
That is correct, I managed to get the pin out, thanks. Easiest way to get all the cosmo out was to first melt all the major chunks using a heat gun followed by a mineral spirits bath. The gun itself is a 1941 Enfield Mk1. Refinished sometimes in the 50ies, it has a LOT of markings most of which I cannot identify myself. Bore is like new as well as the bolt and carrier.
While I'm at it: the rear sight likely has a lot of cosmo inside it. Is it worth taking apart for cleaning (ie difficult)?
Thanks again
If the grease is inside the sight and it's working, then don't try to fix it! We used to grease them up internally
Can't identify the markings........ That's what the forum is for. Tell us the serial number and we might be able to enlighten you further
Several years ago I purchased a .30 AN M2 Browning aircraft gun at auction that was listed as 'welded shut' but very good condition. I put an appropriately low postal bid and won the gun, and was very surprised (and pleased) to see that the 'weld' was hardened cosmoline. Kerosene and a hair dryer solved the problem and I now own a mint, unfired Savage .30 AN M2!
That would be gorgeous...got pics?Quote:
Originally Posted by Woodsy
My gun is pictured on page 463, The Browning Machine Gun, Vol 1, by Dolf Goldsmith. If you want photos on this site I will have to re-photograph it as I have no pictures of it on the computer.
I would love to see some good detailed pictures.Quote:
Originally Posted by Woodsy
The one I have needs a lot of work.
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Vincent, your gun appears to be a .303 Mk II. I have a tidy cut-away of that model as well so I will post pictures of both models. they are essentially the same dimensions but the .303 Mk II has a different barrel shroud and flash hider. Your .303 flash hider is the later version and mine is the earlier, but the gun is the same. Give me a day or so to get this sorted (I am busy laying bathroom tiles for she who must be obeyed!).
I had a full set of parts for one of those a dozen years ago. They came from a trophy gun that was sitting in a conference room in an undisclosed camp I was posted to. The gun remains, but the full parts set left. They since found a home locally but I believe have not seen light since. Sad actually...they were in .303.
Took some quick pics with my phone of the clearest markings, the gun has been refinished at some point. A quick google search told me the SLAZ-markings are for Slazenger. Didn't know they did BREN parts, cool!
Most interested in the markings under the barrel lock lever, looks like someone practiced making markings there! Any help in decyphering them (sorry for low quality pics)? :)
I guess the gun is a bog standard BREN put together from mismatched parts but it is a precious jewel to me regardless, heh.
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Thanks!
MA/52/FTR = FTR at Lithgow in 1952. L-arrow-19 Lithgow Examiners mark. The persons name will be recorded somewhere in the archives? Arrow/crown/E/97, same but an Enfield examiners mark. SLAZ 4? pistol grip you know. Butt, SLAZ 1951 same but what is interesting is that contrary to what I thought, production of Mk1 butts recommenced after it was discontinued during the simplification programme of 43/44?
The 'S' on the barrel indicates that you have the second barrel fitted. There was a tacit instruction that we didn't mark the second barrel with a S because the dopey crunchies would think it indicated SPARE. They'd shoot the shxx out of the first barrel instead of using both barrels equally................
Just a bog standard Mk1 Enfield made Bren. What about the serial number? Probably taken to Australia by Aust Forces returning from the Desert. FTR'd there during the large rebuild programme after the fright inflicted on the UN by the N-Koreans in the early 50's where they fought the UN to a standstill
Next question?
Peter, I'm surprised at that statement...we did that anywayzzz.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Laidler
Thanks Peter, you really know your stuff! Serial is K.69XX. The barrel is not matching in number to rest of gun.
That is VERY easily rectified!....Bar out the Serial Number NEATLY with a crosscut cold chisel. & then stamp next to it. Your Gun Number.Quote:
Originally Posted by Beginner
After ensuring that if this is a firing example. that your headspacing is correct, Naturaly!..........