late WW2 rebuild of 1940 receiver

My photos show a late WW2 rebuild with mixed WW2 parts, barrel is Buffalo Arms revision 19 bore is excellent..

The walnut stock has a nice figure and the military hand guards show a nice figure on both sides. the operating rod is revision 3 without relief cut, bolt revision 2 as well as the revision 2 trigger housingAttachment 128611Attachment 128612Attachment 128613Attachment 128614Attachment 128615Attachment 128616

Again a sweet lookin' M1 with lots of early features. Nice, nice...

I love the look of the wood! Beautiful

I believe this stock was an original cartouched SA SHM stock and not a reworked or rebuild stockAttachment 128623Attachment 128622Attachment 128624

Yes, stock looks great! Love the nice rollmark especially on the early ones. Grooved clip and very nice HGs!

While not rare to find but not something you see everyday is the roller marks on the outside of the barrel. This barrel was swaged in order to index on the receiver Attachment 128649Attachment 128650

Springfield called it "rolled" and sent many barreled receivers to repair for rolling to correct "light draw." I take this to mean the barrel didn't mate to the receiver correctly because the shoulder was a few thousandths short. Swageing squeezed it a bit longer. This was evidently done in the Model Room. On May 6, 1938 a group of 19 from 1060 to 2394 were sent and three days later 7 were sent back for more squeezing.

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Originally Posted by Bob Seijas

Springfield called it "rolled" and sent many barreled receivers to repair for rolling to correct "light draw." I take this to mean the barrel didn't mate to the receiver correctly because the shoulder was a few thousandths short. Swageing squeezed it a bit longer. This was evidently done in the Model Room. On May 6, 1938 a group of 19 from 1060 to 2394 were sent and three days later 7 were sent back for more squeezing.

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That looks very heavy swaging to me. Was this done with the receiver attached? Does not seem it would take that much to move the metal a couple of thousandths

Mark, the swaging is always done before barrel installation. If you screw the barrel into a receiver by hand it should stop about 3/16 inch (approx)
before index. You then tighten the barrel with the wrench. Sometimes you screw the barrel into the receiver by hand and the barrel will go past the index
and then you need swaging to expand the area above the threads for the correct index.

Others (myself included) have used a hammer to gently tap all the way around the rear of the barrel to provide swaging and works most of the time - but
swaging in a lathe with rollers is still the best.

The big debate years ago was did Springfield use swaging on new production receivers and barrels during WW2

I have also tapped the edge to correct the draw - that just looked heavy to me

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Originally Posted by RCS

Others (myself included) have used a hammer to gently tap all the way around the rear of the barrel to provide swaging

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That was what I learned as well. It will increase your shank by a few thou. Only do it once though...

I have a section of a post receiver that has either been chrome plated or a small metal shim was used to get the correct timing on the barrel and receiver.

I have seen photos in Tony Pucci's old newsletters where the receiver face was plated in order to salvage the receiver.

The purists at SA were opposed to shims because it meant that tghe combo was custom-fitted, a real no-no. Not only that, if the fault were with the receiver, it would always need custom-fitting when refurbished. It was, however, done on special orders from Major Hatcher.