Look out! It's a newbie with carbine problems!

[Harlan (Deceased)]

You do some great work, feets!

I understand the challenge of making something work. It's a battle of man against machine, and I appreciate that challenge more than most, and won't give up until it's a lost cause. I'd do as you just described to try to fight the battle and try everything to get it running, just for the challenge of it but I would not spend the money for a new barrel.
If it was a USGI carbine I would do so just to keep a part of history alive, but not a commercial clone.

You have the carbine bug already whether you know it or not, and you're hooked by the history of it's design.

Keep your project and please consider saving for a USGI carbine. You have love for machinery and when you have a vintage M1 carbine in your hands everything changes -
There is nothing like a vintage WWII firearm that comes alive as they do. It's 'living history' like nothing else in the world to possess a well made firearm from WWII that functions better than most guns made today.

After 65 years, nobody manufactured a carbine replica that touches an original mechanically and they didn't make one after WWII ended. An original USGI M1 carbine is worth spending a few dollars more for on mechanical merits alone.

When you have a piece of history in your hands that's most likely fought through two and possibly three wars because nothing else could replace it, you become to hold it in reverend as not only a tool but something with a life of it's own.

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