Bolt Disassembly

[musketjon]

I'm a relative newbie to the Enfield world so please pardon me if this is a dumb question. When disassembling the bolt for my No1 Mk3***, do I remove the bolt retaining screw before or after removing the firing pin retaining nut?
Thanks
Jon

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[browningautorifle]

There's two parts I've never heard of. You need a tool to strip the firing pin and cocking piece...do you have that?

[villiers]

I´ve never really needed that tool.

[browningautorifle]

I have. It only takes one...doesn't sound like he's really prepared anyway. I'm waiting for him to come back and see where he is in this...

[WarPig1976]

I´ve never really needed that tool.

Do tell!!
Before I bought the real thing I made one out of a curtain rod.

[Ridolpho]

Many don't really require the tool but then I ran into an Ishapore that was so locked up it bent the lugs off the tool. Still haven't got that one apart. To the original poster- I've found quite useful you-tube videos for disassembly/ reassembly of some actions that were new to me. You can usually tell from the video whether the guy knows what he's doing or not. Or better yet locate a good book (there are books by Stratton about both No. 1 and No. 4 rifles and they're cheap).

Ridolpho

[musketjon]

I have Stratton's book and the tool is on order.
Jon

[Peter Laidler]

Some early No1's use the bolt head on the specially shaped striker collar to remove it. But really, most Armourers agree that however good some of the crunchies are, field stripping should be just that! Stripping sufficient to clean the rifle. NOTHING more!

Mind you, as yet, we don't know what he means by the mysterious bolt retaining screw and the firing pin retaining nut..........

[musketjon]

That should've been the striker keeper screw. I have never had a SMLE bolt apart and was trying to go by memory from the picture in Stratton's book. I see now that what I thought was a separate piece (I called it the firing pin retaining nut) is an integral part of the striker itself. So, the question now is: after I remove the striker keeper screw, does the striker simply unscrew out of the cocking piece?
Thanks, and sorry for the bad nomenclature. I can do everything to my M1's asleep and blind-folded but I'm pretty much a noobie to the world of SMLE's.
Jon

[Mk VII]

Should just unscrew - with a proper tool (which often breaks if the lugs are too hard or deforms if they are too soft, esp. if dried up oil has gummed the threads of the striker)