I caught the guy in another lie. This is aggravating. He told me he lost the barrel bands when he took the stock apart to get the oil out. I admit to not thinking about it at the time but M44/Type 53 barrel bands do not easily go on and off of these rifles. I realized that yesterday when they arrived and I attempted to put them on. He probably destroyed them or cut them to get them off.
Anyway did some looking around for options and found nothing extremely helpful until I found this video:
Worked beautifully and the rifle is now all back together. It did not have a cleaning rod, he wasn't lying about that even though his photo showed one. there was about half an inch of impacted grease and dirt in there that had to come out first.
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