Messed up mauser

[gamachinist]

homeka45 wrote:
"the hex reigns, my feeble powers are no match for it."
I didn't catch the hex part the first time I read ythe origianl post.
Maybe you need to find something she has from a previous relationship to hold hostage until the hex is lifted!
I guess you're lucky,my first wife must have put a hex on my ability to keep guns,since it seemed I was selling some every few months to catch up bills.....

The offer still stands,I'll fix it and send it back free if you can't handle it yourself.

Best of luck,Robert.

 

[Jim K]

Homeka45, my apologies. I did try the punch method, but used a punch that was only about 1/2 inch long, and I didn't think about the possibility of breaking one off in the hole. You only need to push/pull the firing pin back about 1/4 inch.

When I tried using a screwdriver to pull back on the firing pin lugs, I had the bolt body in a padded vise, back end up. So I just put my right thumb on the bolt sleeve and hooked my fingers under the screwdriver, holding the screwdriver in place with my left hand. I hope that might still work even with the piece of the punch broken off in the bolt. If it does, the broken punch piece should just fall out once the firing pin is removed.

Maybe one more try will do it and you can get rid of the hex.

(Hex, hex, go away, go bother the Brady gang today.)

Jim

 

[homeka45]

Well, I can see the broken piece of the punch, approx. 3/4 in. long lying alongside the firing pin, I tried moving the firing pin with another punch but I could only move it about a 16th of an inch. From bad to worse, such is life.
Guess it's about time to send it to someone with a higher level of expertise, experience, and tools.
Thanks to everyone for your help, ideas, and input.
Bad Hex, go home!

 

[Zeke Menuar]

I am playing Black Sabbath backwards on the turntable. Lit some candles too. Couldn't find anything around here worth sacrificing. I'll go see if I can find the instructions to my hated Ruger P95 and sacrifice that. Maybe that'll help the hex. Playing Sabbath usually gets my wife out of the room pronto.

Good Luck

ZM

 

[homeka45]

Hey Zeke.
That would explain the luminous, levitating bolt that scared the kids last night. Guess I should stay away from hex receiver Mosin-Nagants too!
Thanks.
Dan

 

[Jim K]

Hi, Homeak45,

I don't know what else to suggest. As I said, I tried doing what you did, and got the same situation. The firing pin, spring and bolt sleeve were locked into the bolt and I could not unscrew the bolt sleeve.

I then turned the extractor and put the front of the bolt in the vise, supported by the safety lug. Then I inserted a small screwdriver under the firing pin lug showing through the slot in the bolt sleeve and pulled up while turning the bolt sleeve counterclockwise. It takes a bit of a pull and you may have to pry against the bolt sleeve, but it will work unless that piece of broken punch has wedged into the firing pin preventing it from turning. Even so, I think it will work with enough muscle.

If not, postage to Alaska is not bad.

Jim