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So about 6-7 years ago my dads old Remington Model 12 (.22lr) broke. We took it to a few guns smiths since I did not have the experience with guns back then that I do now. The first guy had it for about a year and did nothing more than drill a hole through the carrier
ruining it. We decided to pick it up and take it elsewhere. Took it to a second guy who had it for about 2 years and never touched it.
This rifle has sentimental value to my dad otherwise I would have just turned it in at a gun buy back and used the money to get him another Marlin 60 or something.
So the rifle had been sitting around until this winter when I finally had spare time to do to research, order parts and get this thing running again. Lots of hit and miss but I finally gathered the right parts. Some perfectly good parts had either been ruined or lost through out the years. I picked up a new carrier that had been ruined, firing pin, cartridge retainer that had been lost in the process and a few other springs and pins.
After doing research I found out that the only part that initially had to be replaced was the broken firing pin but the "experts" I had taken it to had either ruined parts or lost parts.
I now have all the right replacement parts, none are missing and I am now down to the last issue. I have the correct cartridge retainer but it needs to be filed because the action is very hard and I can feel the pump mechanism rubbing against the cartridge retainer and receiver. This part needs some fitting. This is a 100 year old gun so some of these parts don't simply drop in like Glock parts.
This is the cartridge retainer:
Any idea where I need to file? I don't want to screw up and have to order another one cartridge retainer, they are $25-$30. On parts we have already spent close to what a cheap new .22lr rifle would cost.
Anyone have experience with these rifles or know of a forum where people that know a lot about these rifles hang out? is there a forum out there for .22lr fans?
I'd like to get this project done before work speeds up again.
Thanks.
ruining it. We decided to pick it up and take it elsewhere. Took it to a second guy who had it for about 2 years and never touched it. This rifle has sentimental value to my dad otherwise I would have just turned it in at a gun buy back and used the money to get him another Marlin 60 or something.
So the rifle had been sitting around until this winter when I finally had spare time to do to research, order parts and get this thing running again. Lots of hit and miss but I finally gathered the right parts. Some perfectly good parts had either been ruined or lost through out the years. I picked up a new carrier that had been ruined, firing pin, cartridge retainer that had been lost in the process and a few other springs and pins.
After doing research I found out that the only part that initially had to be replaced was the broken firing pin
but the "experts" I had taken it to had either ruined parts or lost parts.I now have all the right replacement parts, none are missing and I am now down to the last issue. I have the correct cartridge retainer but it needs to be filed because the action is very hard and I can feel the pump mechanism rubbing against the cartridge retainer and receiver. This part needs some fitting. This is a 100 year old gun so some of these parts don't simply drop in like Glock parts.
This is the cartridge retainer:
Any idea where I need to file? I don't want to screw up and have to order another one cartridge retainer, they are $25-$30. On parts we have already spent close to what a cheap new .22lr rifle would cost.
Anyone have experience with these rifles or know of a forum where people that know a lot about these rifles hang out? is there a forum out there for .22lr fans?
I'd like to get this project done before work speeds up again.
Thanks.
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