My 43' LB - First (ever?) Teardown

[Brian Dick]

I hope you read up on the proper disassembly procedure, especially removing the forend. It's all here in Peter Laidler's articles. I see rifles from so many newbies with the draws shagged because of improper disassembly. Working on an ROF(F) No.4Mk.2 "as we speak" that is one of them. The new owner just had to tear it down, sand the **** out of it, apply lovely Midway poly finish and then install it incorrectly. I stripped the plastic banana finish and have restored it with raw linseed oil but the forend is totally out of whack and they aren't worth a crap with an ill fitting forend. Sometimes it's best to leave them alone.

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[Wernher von Beige]

I hope you read up on the proper disassembly procedure, especially removing the forend. It's all here in Peter Laidler's articles.

Hi, Brian.

I know I've seen the disassembly instructions somewhere. I looked at the index of Peter Laidler's articles but nothing jumped out at me as being disassembly / forend-specific instructions. I've set up a folder where I dump potentially useful articles, but I don't see it in my own folder either. Pardon the dumb question, but which article is it?

[Alan de Enfield]

Hi, Brian.

I know I've seen the disassembly instructions somewhere. I looked at the index of Peter Laidler's articles but nothing jumped out at me as being disassembly / forend-specific instructions. I've set up a folder where I dump potentially useful articles, but I don't see it in my own folder either. Pardon the dumb question, but which article is it?

It was a multi-page document 'fitting a forend', of which is probably the key instruction :


DO NOT LIFT THE FORE-END AWAY AT THE MUZZLE. Not now, not tomorrow, not EVER. It is only EVER tapped free downwards, at the rear, by finger pressure or tapping it downwards and free with a wooden drift against the top left and right edges of the fore-end. Thus, releasing it from the grip of the draws and the butt socket. This should tell you something. If your fore-end can be rotated free by lifting it away at the muzzle, then it’s well and truly shagged. That’s another REME technical term this time, meaning ‘ ….somewhat worn out!’