Need Help: broken 7.62 magazine

[smle addict]

Went to the range today with my DCRA No.4. It has been modified to accept an L39/L42 magazine. Worked flawlessly, until today. Started mis-feeding, and hard to load. I removed the magazine from the rifle, and the spacer that was welded to the interior of the magazine fell out.

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What do I do? This is over my head. I know how to mig-weld only, on large steel sections. I also know how to sweat copper pipes. But I am absolutely AWFUL at fine welding work. The few times I've attempted body work on cars/jeeps, I've blown holes clean through the sheet metal, even when using the lightest settings on the welder. I have since given that up.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks to all ahead of time.

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[Brian B]

Those look like spot welds that came apart. Not sure if someone makes/has a small spot welder with the two tips that squeeze together to weld the two pieces together.

Looks like this, but I imagine you would need a much smaller one.

120 Volt Spot Welder

Is it an original or a repro magazine?

Brian B

[Peter Laidler]

SIMPLE. This was a common problem in service and there was a repair for this in the EMER as a miscellaneous instruction. FULLY clean and tin all four surfaces. Slightly spread theribs of the inner guide outwards so that they form a friction fit inside the magazine case and insert it into the magazine. Support it internally. Heat the magazine case until both tinned surfaces fuze together. Better than original

Next question..............

[jmoore]

My solution for getting good tiny or "fiddly" welds done: Give the project to a friend who does an excellent job! Only problem is currently he's working a different shift. Haven't seen him in months....

[Peter Laidler]

Just thinking on my feet about this fault and fix....... All that spacer is/does is exactly what it says. It's a spacer between the full length of the old .303" magazine space and the shorter 7.62mm cartridge within that space. There's no actual load on the spacer as such. The only mechanical 'work' it does is to lift the nose up slightly to head for the chamber.

So on that basis, a simple EMER soft solder fix is more than adequate

[smle addict]

Thanks everyone. I will give the soft-solder a try, and post some updates.

Thanks again

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Oh yeah,

forgot to mention it is an original magazine.