Got a Rock- Ola and have questions

[Bruce McAskill]

Typical parts after a normal rebuild. Quality hardware trigger housing, and the bolt is Inland. I can't see the rest for markings.

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[jimb16]

Pictures please!

[tenOC]

They're on page one showing a KR hammer and AOB slide.

[jimb16]

Hey ten! You can't count! Page 3 not 1! *LOL* That backwards B, e and V are an upside down AOB! *LOL* That is what I was scratching my head about! DUH! OOPS! I think my brain just rolled out my ear!

[tenOC]

I can't count.

[USGI]

I'd come to the same conclusion on the markings in the recent pictures, but forgot they were on page 3. - Bob

[Singer B]

I don't know if Rockola carbines left the factory with only Rockola parts. Many manufacturers used parts from other manufacturers. You can go to USCARBINECALM1.com and use their charts to identify what parts should be on you rifle based upon its serial number and then you can compare them to what you actually have. I was able to do that with my Underwood and confirm all the parts were correct for it. That would help you to get it as close as possible to original. Hope that helps!

[tenOC]

Be careful. That site works fairly well for many serials, but I just tried it with a 4.4 mil NPM. It's totally wrong. It's like Reisch and you will mess up an honest Carbine.

Don't break up a Carbine or try to correct one without doing it publicly on a Carbine website with experienced people guiding you because someone reading this is going to destroy a valuable Carbine building a cobbled something of lesser value. And don't rely on one individual to guide you. Only a handful of people can cover it all.
Look at one serial block for example 4,075,010 - 4,432,099. That site says the last serials won't have early features. That's totally wrong.

[DaveHH]

Ten offers some great advice. If you have a carbine with a mix of parts that works, why would you take off various parts and maybe make it not work and spend lots of money for parts that may be fake? The end result will be a mixmaster with flaws and fakes. The term "corrected" is the kiss of death for a lot of people. The majority of original carbines are late production guns by Winchester and Inland. They went from factory to storage and were sold back to the public by the NRA. Consider that these guns had all of the latest parts and work very well.

[01lowbird]

Ten offers some great advice. If you have a carbine with a mix of parts that works, why would you take off various parts and maybe make it not work and spend lots of money for parts that may be fake? The end result will be a mixmaster with flaws and fakes. The term "corrected" is the kiss of death for a lot of people. The majority of original carbines are late production guns by Winchester and Inland. They went from factory to storage and were sold back to the public by the NRA. Consider that these guns had all of the latest parts and work very well.

Well I need parts to get the rifle in working order so looking for correct parts seems like a good idea. However, just getting it in working order also seems solid lol. I need a complete stock, front and rear sights at minimum. Likely need a barrel band as well.