Help needed chasing threads Gas cylinder and plug

[Badger]

@ Jim, mysterie solved. That gives the rifle a real personal touch to me. Have you seen these corrections carved in the stock before? Try to look at my pics, you can find my album at Photo Gallery (at the top of this site)>photogallery home, album M1 garand from Daanvdt.... I put it there yesterday. Thanks again!
Dan

Not necessary to have to go to top of web site.

To view anyone's photo's stored in the member's Photo Gallery, all one has to do is look to the left panel and in this case, you'll see a link titled View photos by Daanvdt. Click on it and it takes you to that particular member's photo gallery.

Of course, if a member doesn't currently have a photo gallery on the site, then no link appears.

Regards
Doug

[gulliver62]

I started down this path a while ago myself but it was easier to replace the cylinder for me. The threads are not a common size these days.
Try this.
http://www.nicolausassociates.com/PD...ingThreads.pdf

[HILLBILLY-06]

Standard Eleveation on an M1 Garand is usually 8 to 10 clicks from bottom for 100 yards, usually. So if someone had been shooting with Elevation @ 18 clicks up, and Windage @ 15 clicks Left, he knew he had to do that for a reason. I wonder what the terrain around that barn looked like. I wonder if the Last American Soldier to hold that rifle, was in that barn for a while. Long enough to know what he needed to do with his sights. I sure would like to have been the one that found it, and looked outside around that barn to visualize E18 W15L, and walk to that spot and see what was there. Now that would be real history, that would be a story to tell. Maybe get lucky at E18 W15L and find part of an old rusty helmet just lying there on the ground. Sorry, my immagination got away from me.

[Daanvdt]

Standard Eleveation on an M1 Garand is usually 8 to 10 clicks from bottom for 100 yards, usually. So if someone had been shooting with Elevation @ 18 clicks up, and Windage @ 15 clicks Left, he knew he had to do that for a reason. I wonder what the terrain around that barn looked like. I wonder if the Last American Soldier to hold that rifle, was in that barn for a while. Long enough to know what he needed to do with his sights. I sure would like to have been the one that found it, and looked outside around that barn to visualize E18 W15L, and walk to that spot and see what was there. Now that would be real history, that would be a story to tell. Maybe get lucky at E18 W15L and find part of an old rusty helmet just lying there on the ground. Sorry, my immagination got away from me.

Thank you Hillbilly,
I like your angle. I have been thinking about that barn many, many times. A last hold out? What has happened there? I always have a weak spot for those collectables that have really been there; that obviously have a story to tell.
I stare at the rifle and I wonder what the rifle was staring at in december 1944.
Regards, Dan

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Thanks Gulliver, I`m aware of the site you linked. Did you ever find a gunsmith who had the correct tools?

[Daanvdt]

Thanks Badger, I send him a mail!