In need of Assembly/disassembly for Model 70?
I need to take some bolts completely apart (completely strip) the bolts and remove the safety lever and change some firing pins and safety levers.
I've searched on-line but do not the any info about complete stripping of the bolt assembly.
I thought I had a NRA magazine on file about such, but I was wrong.
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A local gun smith that also had a small store passed and his wife was selling things off. I bought some manuals on disassembly/assembly and exploded views of most the major designs. My point is, I'm sure a lot of these old books are listed for sale on various sites. If we were closer I could loan you mine.
Okay, while writing this I decided to see how well I could make copies from the book. Seems I have a better copier than I thought and the copies turned out okay. Send me a private e-mail and I'll mail them to you.
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SCOUT5 wrote:A local gun smith that also had a small store passed and his wife was selling things off. I bought some manuals on disassembly/assembly and exploded views of most the major designs. My point is, I'm sure a lot of these old books are listed for sale on various sites. If we were closer I could loan you mine.
Okay, while writing this I decided to see how well I could make copies from the book. Seems I have a better copier than I thought and the copies turned out okay. Send me a private e-mail and I'll mail them to you.
I guess you can private message me here through the system.
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forgemonkey and scout5
I got your info printed about taking the bolt apart and a PM sent to scout5.
I'm trying to determine what parts I need to fix a Post Winchester 70 push feed LA bolt that the safety lever wants to be at rest forward of the 90 degree mid way safe position. When the safety lever is place on fire all the way forward then pulled back towards the 90 degree safe position the safety lever wants to be at home or rest about midway BACK towards the 90 degree position.
In this slightly forward position of safe the gun's firing pin will fall if the trigger is pulled and then the safety push to fire.
I have another bolt (from another Model 70) that works perfect in this gun. (safety works perfect and the headspace is perfect) I'm going to be swapping parts from the good bolt to the unsafe bolt so as trying to determine if the issue with the unsafe bolt is the firing pin or the safety lever.
The trigger overtravel, etc is adjusted perfect. The safety lever due to not wanting to rest in the 90 degree safe position does not quite pull the firing pin back far enough to release the trigger sear en-gaugement to the safe position. If the safety lever is placed further back into the normal 90 degree position all is ok.
Anyone have any tips or experience with such on a Model 70 bolt or know what part is probably worn?
I tinker and repair my own guns. (so no liability issues here)
If it were someone else's gun I would tell them to take it too a gunsmith.0 -
Got the Winchester 70 safety fixed myself:
I could not find anything visibly wrong after taking out the firing pin and the safety lever.
The safety lever appeared to have a little bit of wear at the reverse cam position of the safety lever. (position that reverse cams the firing pin when in the safe middle position so as to pull the firing pin backwards for sear engaugement) Just a little bit of wear at the reverse cam area of the safety lever upsets the safety of the Winchester 70 safety.
I found a NEW G series safety lever on ebay for $30 and installed and then had to carefully dress and hone using a diamond impregnated knife whet stone the angle part of the firing pin where the safety lever engauged for good operation of the safety lever engaugement of the firing pin. I used a propane cigarette lighter and smoked the firing pin area so as to see the portion that needed dressing. I eventually used white out (typewriter type) to color the firing pin during final honing.
The firing pin, safety lever, trigger, and sear are not plug and play on the Winchester 70's, they must be fine tuned and honed to be safe. This is one of the main reasons why Winchester when in business only sold these parts to authorized gunsmiths for proper installiation into a gun.
I would suggest that anyone having issues such as this to take the gun to a qualified gunsmith.
AND ALWAYS KEEP THE BARREL POINTED IN A SAFE DIRECTION.
They (GUNS) are mechanical devices and can fail at any time.
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