help with 870 express

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I just bought one of the wilson combat mag extensions, screwed it on and It will still only let me load 4 shells into the thing. The spring isn't pushing back down. The shells don't want to chamber and the last round won't even come out fo the tube.

 

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Looking back I just found the follower that was laying in the package but it won't fit in there.. Could that be the problem? There's two little dimples in the mag tube stopping it from sliding down. That's the only thing I can see but I don't want to go break out a file on a hunch

 

[9mmMike]

The dimples must go.
Some folks drill them out. Some dremel. I used a socket the same OD as the ID of the tube, tapped it in and used it like an anvil with a small ball peen, finished with dremel and paint.
Pick your method and have at it. Make sure it is smooooooth when you're done so the follower does not hang up.
Good luck,
Mike

 

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I was hoping that would be it.. I guess I can reblue the whole thing afterwards.

If I had hair long enough to grab I know I'd have been tearing it out awhile ago.


Thanks

 

[Fred Fuller]

Snaps,

If you decide to drill/dremel out the dimples, be sure to plug the magazine tube first with a paper towel or shop rag so the filings don't make their way down the mag tube/shell stops. Easier to avoid the mess than to clean it up afterward. The barrel ring covers the area when yu're done, no worries there.

I just tie a string around the middle of a piece of shop rag big enough to do the job, then stuff the rag down the tube past the dimples and drop the string in behind it. Hit it with a shot of WD40 and go to work, when finished shake out the string and retrieve the rag- point the magazine tube down when you pull out the plug and you should extract the filings too.

The socket-as-anvil works too, finding one the right size is the fun part. I put a 1/4x4" bolt through the one I use, (selected out of a box of a couple hundred loose sockets at a pawn shop) held in place by a nut/washer above and one below the socket's hole to serve as a handle. You may still beed to polish teh mag tube in the inside when you're done.

lpl/nc

 

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now working perfectly