Hello all, thought I would share something interesting that happened to me today. I went to the range with my type 2 paratpooper Arisaka. I just got it and this was the first time to shoot it. On the third shot the aircraft sight popped up on its own. Upon inspection I found that the barrel had moved about half an inch forward, confusing me on how and why until I got it apart.
Just in case someone that reads this is not familiar with a type 2, it is basically a type 99 that the Japanese cut in half and made it into a take-down rifle so paratroopers could jump with them.
The chamber and barrel are both forward of the break, and I had assumed were one piece. I was wrong on this, the barrel slides onto the chamber and is held on by what appears to be the 1940's version of red loctite. Color me surprised. And I don't know the service life of red loctite, but it seems to be less than 70 years.
Thankfully not much gas or debris flew out, so no harm no foul to me, and other than a crack in the top hand-guard and of course the old locktite giving out there's no damage to the rifle.
Did anyone else know about the loctite?
Information
Warning: This is a relatively older thread This discussion is older than 360 days. Some information contained in it may no longer be current.
In the world of Firearms, when you shoot a rifle calibre cartridge. Many/ Approx 20 Tons per square inch is generated upon firing!
The Barrel where it fit's into the interrupted thread block. WOULD have originally have a machine thread on it. And correspondingly, the block would have had
a matching female thread to suit!
Applying some kind of liquid thread sealant would have simply been madness! Not to mention dammed right Bloody Dangerous!!!!!!
To my mind, tis is a lash up that someone has concocted to convert a common rifle. Into a much rarer variant or Weapon!
I disagree that this is a chop job done by Bubba. Here is an article by nambu world on the type 2 and Ian McCollum with one in an early forgotten weapons video.
I'm going to have to do some research to find a schematic for this rifle, but everything about the rifle I own matches everything I can find so far with authentic type 2's. Also the work itself looks period accurate and well done.
If you know of somewhere I could go to find a schematic or have a type 2 and are willing to take the wood off the front end and take a few pictures please let me know.
I agree, those links don't address this specific issue. I was just trying to show the type 2 is real and can be authentic. I pulled these first two images from google and the third is mine put mostly together with red still showing to tell where it came apart, but in the google images you can see multiple layers of metal which match up to mine, implying (to me, anyway) that they are constructed in the same manner.
I'm as flabberghasted as everyone else seems to be that it's constructed this way, that's why I brought it up.
Well, that's how I would sleeve it together if I was trying to blow it by someone too. Follow the contours and lines. Give it a minute, there's guys here will know for sure. If it's real, they'll come forward and tell you.
If it is real and the locking agent on these rifles is becoming suspect then I feel the site and most knowledgeable of members should put out a warning or at least a notice of some kind and have the owners of these types check them over not as a scare mongering tactic but try to save someones hand or worse. Just an idea
. I just got it and this was the first time to shoot it. On the third shot the aircraft sight popped up on its own. Upon inspection I found that the barrel had moved about half an inch forward, confusing me on how and why until I got it apart.
Register To Reply
Originally Posted by r.pettit
