Carbine bayonet band - how tight and where?

[Patrick Chadwick]

"So just note those 3 inner pads that put finish wear on 3 spots on your barrel do in time wear down and don't get the bite on the barrel, stock and hand guard.
Maybe yours is doing the same thing?"

I think you got it Charlie! This bayonet band seems to be an original Quality Products band that, judging by the abrasion, was removed from another carbine. The slop was only 0.002", so maybe it was removed in a brutal manner. So I pragmatically tightened the lips front and back until it became a push fit on the barrel.

BTW, this is a shooting carbine, not a collector's item. Probably used postwar by some non-US authority - seems to have had an arsenal makeover in 1961.

https://www.milsurps.com/showthread....hlight=carbine

Warped stock, loose recoil plate, tatty extractor, etc. etc. The stock was so badly warped that I had to file a bit off one side to shift the band over and stop the barrel binding on that side. The type 2 band could easily twist and loosen the screw, hence my binding it with wire to keep the screw in position. But it still shot better than most, thanks to an AI bore!

Thanks to all who commented - I've been through the book on carbine adjustment, and this was the last aspect.

If this fix works, by stopping the band twisting, I shall post a couple of photos. If it does not work, then you may judge by my silence that it was a failure!

Here's hoping! And now I have to go and make up some really good ammo...

Patrick