Winchester 1892 Magazine tube
I have a winchester 1892 32-20. Just wondering if there's a trick to removing the magazine tube. It has a slight bend in it at the tip and I wanted to try and fix it.
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It would really help to know if you are referring to a Sporting Rifle or a Carbine. 0 -
Sorry, it's a 32-20 WCF Carbine rifle. I removed the forend tip and the magazine plug. Not sure how the tube is removed from the receiver. 0 -
You still are not making much sense... it is either a "Rifle" (with a 24-inch barrel), or it is a "Carbine" (with a 20-inch round barrel). Based on the your mention of a "forend tip", I will assume that you have a Sporting Rifle
The Sporting Rifles have a steel nose-cap on the bitter end of the forend stock that is attached with two screws to a tenon on the barrel.
The Carbines use a barrel band, with a single screw (running left-to-right).
Both the Sporting Rifles, and the 25-20 WCF and 32 WCF caliber Carbines use a magazine tube retaining ring to hold the magazine tube in place. In the top center part of the magazine ring you will see a pin... drive it out (left-to-right), then simply pull the magazine tube forward and out of the receiver.
If this still does not make any sense to you, post a few pictures of your gun.0 -
Thanks for your help Bert. It's a 24 inch barrel sporting rifle. There wasn't a pin to punch out. This gun was given to me and I'm trying to restore it. I'm almost there. I don't think it had a pin in it. I was able to remove the tube from the receiver. Do you know where I can buy a pin for it? 0 -
Does the magazine tube ring have the hole in it for a retaining pin? You should be able to get a pin from your local gunsmith (or have him make you one). 0 -
One more thing. Now that I have the receiver and all the internal components put back together, there's no tension on the firing pin. Everything else seems to be fine. I'm going to remove the breech again to see if I missed something. Any suggestions? 0 -
quote:Originally posted by efunk
One more thing. Now that I have the receiver and all the internal components put back together, there's no tension on the firing pin. Everything else seems to be fine. I'm going to remove the breech again to see if I missed something. Any suggestions?
Do you mean there is no tention when you cock the hammer?0 -
there's tension when I cock the hammer back. Before I broke the gun down to clean there was tension on the firing pin. I noticed it would stick out a little. It still does but there's no tension on it. When I lean the gun forward it also falls forward. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by efunk
there's tension when I cock the hammer back. Before I broke the gun down to clean there was tension on the firing pin. I noticed it would stick out a little. It still does but there's no tension on it. When I lean the gun forward it also falls forward.
well the gun may have been dryfired often,which will open up the hole in the bolt as far as sticking gos.
tention most likely is the spring,eather weak or broken.
If so they are both easy to get.
I,m no expert but those I mentioned, are what I would check.0 -
efunk,
I do not know if those old 92s had any sort of firing pin retractor spring. The 92 is not supposed to fire, with the lever anywhere but fully closed. Here are a couple pictures of the parts of a Browning 92:
The red dots show where the red-circled pins go (only Browning 92s may have the firing pin retaing pin):
The following picture (not to scale) shows how the top of the lever straddles the firing pin:
The camming action of the top of the lever prevents/ pulls back/ blocks the firing pin from contacting the primer, until the lever is fully closed. However, with the action & lever fully opened, the firing pin will probably move fore & aft, anyway. ...but, with the breechbolt fully rearward, the hammer is UNDER the breechbolt, and you cannot discharge the rifle in this condition.[;)]0
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