No 5 Carbine project- Input welcome and appreciated

[Catch22]

Phone Brian at BDL in SC, (he's on this site) ask him to look at the photos and then ask him to give you a quote for bead blasting the steelwork, phosphating and painting. You fully strip it and carefully assemble it afterwards. It's easy!

The rust removal is with the blaster. The future rust preventer is the phosphate treatment and the protection is the paint. Assuming that you aren't going to use the rifle in the monsoons or fight in the mangrove swamps of Johore in Malaya, a good quality oven bake exhaust paint will probably do. The old lady deserves better than a cat lick I say!

I appreciate the info and got with Brian a little bit ago. Looks like I'm going to have to do some saving to pull off the full treatment on it. I'm sure it'd be well worth it, just outside the budget limits at the moment.

I'm going to do some debating on where to go for now. I hate to do too much getting it shootable without doing something to finish and protect it. Maybe at least get a start on it and try the electrolysis to get the rust stopped and keep it oiled until I get the funds up.

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[Steve H. in N.Y.]

It looks like the handguard retaining ring is missing. The only way to get one onto the barrel intact is to remove the front sight base which may or may not involve a some type of press and a bit of profanity. I've had the pleasure of doing this twice and if I had to do it again I think I'd just snip the bottom of the ring and weld or braze it back together once it was coaxed over the barrel.

[Catch22]

It looks like the handguard retaining ring is missing. The only way to get one onto the barrel intact is to remove the front sight base which may or may not involve a some type of press and a bit of profanity. I've had the pleasure of doing this twice and if I had to do it again I think I'd just snip the bottom of the ring and weld or braze it back together once it was coaxed over the barrel.

You're correct, it is missing. Not looking forward to that now. LOL May try your brazing trick.