M1 Carbine Value

[Rob]

Without seeing it I'd say 550

[JimF4M1s (Deceased)]

Without seeing it I'd say 550

$550 with a high wood stock, leaf sight, and type one band? I want to shop where you do.

[INLAND44]

Where's the stock cracked, and is the crack open or closed? It's not 'period correct' but I fix most cracks with Super Glue. You have to get the thin, watery kind because it has to 'wick' all the way to the end of the crack. Assuming the crack is closed, you just feed it in as you can, immediately wiping excess off the stock with a cloth moist with Acetone. Feed it in until refusal, wait five minutes and give it more. It might take a half-hour to get it to the saturation point, but that's when you stop and walk away. The next morning it is fused and will never break there again. If the crack is 'open', you have other problems like warpage, missing wood, etc., and you would proceed accordingly.

[JimP]

The crack starts about 4 inches in front of the slide handle, in the area where the cutout for a low wood stock would be. It runs back toward the receiver about 2 inches and slightly down until it hits the point where the thicker wood starts. Its open, but no wood is missing and it will close up with very slight pressue. With it closed, the crack is almost invisible.

I hadn't thought about the superglue. The squeeze out would have been my concern, but I didnt know about the acetone taking it off - that's a good idea. We were going to try a good quality of wood glue after cleaning the crack out as thouroughly as possible with something like acetone to clean away any oils. I'd also wondered about trying to pin it if the wood was thick enough.

[Bruce McAskill]

If your front barrel band is marked UI then it most likely has been changed in the past as Underwood barrel bands were unmarked.

[JimP]

I probably should have been more clear on that Bruce - the band is unmarked, the UI is actually on the sling swivel.

Gentlemen - I really appreciate all of your comments!
Jim

[JimP]

I pulled it out of the safe to double check - no markings on the barrel band. Here's a picture of the swivel.

[sevenfingers2001]

I bought a nice Inland dated 1944 that somehow managed to be cared for back when I had my FFL. Paid $132.90 for it and it was SWEET! (Circa 1990)
Now days you can expect to pay upwards of $800 for anything on the market but beware of rewelds! I had one come in to the gunshop I was working at back in 1992 with a missing extractor and extractor spring.
Fortunately I had the parts but when I took the rifle apart I was appalled to see that someone had sold this young, hapless individual a reweld.
CAVEAT EMPTOR!

[Garandrew]

That UI swivel is on my Inland 550K M1A1..I have an early 1.4 UEF too

[frankderrico]

Jim, here is another recomendation on your stock repair.
Clean the crack with either denatured alchohol or acetone to remove any oils. A q-tip or hobby brush works. Then put dental floss in the crack and work it back to the end. Put gorilla glue or epoxy on the inside of the stock and work the floss back and forth along the crack. That will carry the glue inside the crack. Clamp it gently untill the crack disapears, Leave it over night. Take it out of the clamp and the excess glue cleans up with a razor blade very easy. When your done oil down the stock with some BLO.
I think the rail there is to narrow for a pin repair.
I've done that repair more than once and it has worked for me.....Frank