Loose firing pin/cocking piece 303 No.4 MK1

[Hornant]

I have noticed that the cocking piece is loose on the firing pin. I have had it apart and cant get it tight. This is afecting the trigger release.(heavy)Any ideas on how to fix this.

Thanks

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[Badger]

If you don't get an answer here, you might want to try cross posting this for Peter Laidler in the Lee Enfield Collectors Forum (click here)....

Regards,
Badger

[Alfred]

I've upset the metal with a punch at the front of the cocking piece then used a round jewelers file to round it out just enough to get it started.
Theres probably better ways of doing it.

PS
Heres from Instruction to Armorers

4. To tighten striker in cocking-piece.—Take an unserviceable cocking-piece with the thread for the striker in good condition; split it with the slitting saw down the centre, tap with the plug tap No. 10, and harden and temper. Then screw in the loose striker until the rear end protrudes a little beyond the rear end of the cocking-piece, grip the cocking piece in the vice, and centre-punch the centre of the end of the striker, or otherwise expand the metal; then unscrew the striker and remove any burr or superfluous metal from the end.

That would work if the threaded section was the only loose part, the unthreaded portion of the hole in the cocking piece was very much oversize on the rifle I worked on. Upsetting metal there did the trick but the above instructions would have helped make it even tighter.