My son bought a repro M1icon Carbine Bolt Tool for use on our three carbines. Regarding use of the tool, I thought I read somewhere that the pawl that is forked is used for assembly and the plain pawl is used for disassembly. Is this correct? It seems to me that it works better the other way around.

BTW, I did strip, clean, and reassemble my bolt, but managed to get the extractor pin back in wrong - wasn't gripping the extractor. Last night I took it apart again, and this time I got it in right. Luckily I had not fired the carbine since last time, else I may have automatically disassembled my bolt mid-magazine, huh?

BTW, did they subcontract that extractor pin to a watch-making company or what?
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