My Inland #882766 M1 Carbine

[JimF4M1s (Deceased)]

Mine came today

[DaveHH]

I'll give you a tip on getting that stuff off without removing the finish; I get my hads on a small piece of velcro pad. It is soft and has no metal. The ugly stuff is a mixture of old grease, oil and rust. Most of it wipes or scrubs off. Just go slow and carefully. Use it with any light oil and it will remove surface rust and keep it from returning. I had an M1 garand Greek return that had been steam cleaned by CMP and it got surface rust all over and under the sight cover and I was really ****ed since it was an almost new weapon. That little pad took it all off and it never returned. Here's a photo of it AFTER I saved it. Didn't disturb the original finish at all.

[jmark]

Got my newsletter today. I'll be ordering the back issues too. Impressive info.

[painter777]

I got my membership card last week.

I didn't know we had membership cards (?)

Jmark,
Do you mean the Serial number cards?

DaveHH,
Steam cleaned........ ARRRGGGHHh, they should have at the least sprayed some oil on it.
Great tip about the velcro and very nice finished product. Nice save !
I've used scotch brite felt pads and had good results.
Main thing is to keep the pads soaked with oil.


Charlie-painter777

[Garandrew]

I got several cards, and the last newsletter twice!

[jmark]

I didn't know we had membership cards (?)

Jmark,
Do you mean the Serial number cards?

DaveHH,
Steam cleaned........ ARRRGGGHHh, they should have at the least sprayed some oil on it.
Great tip about the velcro and very nice finished product. Nice save !
I've used scotch brite felt pads and had good results.
Main thing is to keep the pads soaked with oil.


Charlie-painter777

Yes serial number cards. My bad. After reading #363 I think my carbine has the increased dwell (if I am I understand the newsletter correctly). Also it is cool that one of the tech editors Ron Wellman is located close by in Rock Hill SC. Is Ron on the forum?

[shadycon]

Welcome and you have a very nice carbine. You came to the right place for info. I must be old fashion, I still use 0000 steel wool and gun oil.

[jmark]

Back issues ordered.

[jmark]

Have CC members received their Jan. Newsletter yet? I got my membership card last week. I want to order some Newsletter back issues and need the contact info. I need CCNL # 339, 346 & 353 to help with my Inland/SG carbine. Correct?

Back issues came today. Great service. Lots of info to check out!

[Harlan (Deceased)]

I joined near the end of December and few days after I sent in my application Roger Fish sent me an email and offered me two options -

1) Just begin with the January newsletter when it came out and go on from there, or
2) Rejoin in January for 2011 and he'd send me all of the 2010 newsletters.

Roger is a very nice and personable gentleman, and it was thoughtful to contact a new member to offer the opportunity to receive the 2010 newsletters.
Volunteer work such as this mostly a thankless endeavor, and it was nice to see that kind of personal dedication.

I received all of the back 2010 newsletters yesterday and they're indeed impressive.
Each contains much more information than I expected and they're a good quality printing.

Now I need to come up with some sort of binder or something. I'm very impressed with the whole organization.
Next on the agenda will be to buy all the back issues! (And of course fill out some data sheets)

~ Harlan