Wish me luck

[Aragorn243]

The before photos:





















I've finished the first round of cleaning. Got "most" of the hard 60+ year old gunk out and off of the metal. Still have some work to do in the chamber area, hard to get at. Did not completely disassemble it either.

The good news: It now functions fine. All small parts have the same assembly number including the stock and hand guard. The bore cleaned out ok and while remaining a bit dark does not have any significant pitting that I can see and the rifling looks good. There was no serious pitting anywhere although I did find some under the hand guard.

The bad news: The bolt doesn't match either the serial number or the assembly number so it's a mis-match. Slightly disappointing but I figured as much going in.

This one is going to take some time to clean up. That stuff is hard to get off and it isn't coming off my hands either even with orange hand cleaner, that's a first.