Restoration of a .22 Short Rifle Mk II... found in a creek

[louthepou]

Hi folks, got a thread started in the "Lee Enfield Knowledge Library" section but, I figure I should show the progress here in the restoration section.



After letting Liquid Wrench seep into the screws thread, I carefully worked on them and to my delight, every screw did cooperate.





These two arsenal repairs on each side of the trigger guard came off but one did not survive (dang)


Even this came apart easily (ish). Both the screw and the pin came off without excessive force.




interestingly the forend is number matched, but stamped inside the barrel channel:


Not sure about the meaning of this;


So, off to a good start. Cleaning will begin sometime this week, or next weekend.

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