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NO4MKII Bolt
I just acquired a NO4 MK2 from 1955. I cannot seem to get the bolt taken apart. I removed the bolt head and removed the screw from the back. I have the tool needed to remove the firing pin but I cannot get it undone. It will not budge. Is there something different about the No2 bolt that I am missing? Any help would be appreciated.
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10-31-2015 06:36 PM
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Do you actually need to get it apart?
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Originally Posted by
Mk VII
Do you actually need to get it apart?
I guess I don't need to but the gun was caked in cosmoline
and I wanted to give it a good cleaning. Also just in case I decided to replace the firing pin spring.
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Go easy on how much leverage you put on the FP removal tool those pins bend and snap pretty easily I have heard what about a soak in some what the name Croil you fellows use over there or some gasoline try back and forth now you have the locking screw out you may be able to get a bit at a time.
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Originally Posted by
mr.tickle
You could also boil the bolt body and firing pin to melt out the grease...then oil before it's cold.
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But before you do any of this just read thread 2 again and ask yourself again why you NEED to take it apart. The only test you need to ascertain if you need a new spring is done while the bolt is ASSEMBLED, using a trigger tester. And the spring weight is detailed in an article about setting up bolts. It's meant to be greased incidentally...... we dobbed them in XG279 grease and the cocking piece is meant to be tight on the striker because it WILL affect the pull off if it's not.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it is my advice based on nothing more than a couple of years working on one or two.
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Just a question never having had a 303 in the grease do they pack the bolt body with cosmoline or is it just smeared and packed every other place then wrapped TIA
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smeared with great dobs of it
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Guessing Mr Tickle is in the USA - nowhere else in the world seems to be worried about stripping a rifle down to its constituent parts. Is it like the American phobia for 'head spacing' - whatever you find is unlikely to make any difference.
Mine are not the best, but they are not too bad. I can think of lots of Enfields I'd rather have but instead of constantly striving for more, sometimes it's good to be satisfied with what one has...
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Originally Posted by
Alan de Enfield
Guessing Mr Tickle is in the
USA - nowhere else in the world seems to be worried about stripping a rifle down to its constituent parts. Is it like the American phobia for 'head spacing' - whatever you find is unlikely to make any difference.
That's the truth of it.
Living here has taught me that Yanks stereotypically seem to have an obsession with 'new', 'factory new', 'like new', 'restored' and pulling things apart down to the smallest, most insignificant bit, cleaning and polishing it and putting it all back together again.
The rest of us; it's pretty much pick it up, dust it off, look it over, wipe it out and off to the range we go.
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