If you actually have the Spring for the Safety, unscrew the Screw that holds it on and gently BEND it inward, so that it exerts more pressure on the rotating parts. Generally, you can get away with doing this. It will be several years, in normal service, before it wants to be bent inward again. There: you just saved three bucks!
Head up to the Stickies at the top of the Index for this Forum and click on the one put there by Badger Dog. It is a direct link to the Military Knowledge Library over at milsurps dot com. Best of all, take out a membership there; if they ask for a reference, tell 'em that I sent you. You absolutely will not even BELIEVE what they have on offer for free download: Armourers' Manuals, Rifle manuals, 'guided tours' of about 40 different rifles in pristine condition (often close to 100 close-up photos in a 'tour'), information and books on modifications, ammunition, using the thing. Be sure to get 'Rifle - 1942', Maj. EGB Reynolds' 'The Lee-Enfield Rifle' and 'Shoot to Live!', which is still the best shooting guide EVER for military bolt rifles, especially the Number 4. In their forum on Lee-Enfields, they have two working Armourers who deal with these things every day and they have the retired Master Armourer from the British Army, all on tap for help and information. You can NOT beat what they offer..... and it's all free.
As to your Extractor Spring, Trade-Ex (banner advertiser, top of this page, 10 o'clock from the Beaver) has them in stock right now. $4.50. Better get 2; they are tiny and like to hide. Also, they don't make them any more.
Be sure to post a nice picture when you get her running!
Hope this helps.
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Head up to the Stickies at the top of the Index for this Forum and click on the one put there by Badger Dog. It is a direct link to the Military Knowledge Library over at milsurps dot com. Best of all, take out a membership there; if they ask for a reference, tell 'em that I sent you. You absolutely will not even BELIEVE what they have on offer for free download: Armourers' Manuals, Rifle manuals, 'guided tours' of about 40 different rifles in pristine condition (often close to 100 close-up photos in a 'tour'), information and books on modifications, ammunition, using the thing. Be sure to get 'Rifle - 1942', Maj. EGB Reynolds' 'The Lee-Enfield Rifle' and 'Shoot to Live!', which is still the best shooting guide EVER for military bolt rifles, especially the Number 4. In their forum on Lee-Enfields, they have two working Armourers who deal with these things every day and they have the retired Master Armourer from the British Army, all on tap for help and information. You can NOT beat what they offer..... and it's all free.
As to your Extractor Spring, Trade-Ex (banner advertiser, top of this page, 10 o'clock from the Beaver) has them in stock right now. $4.50. Better get 2; they are tiny and like to hide. Also, they don't make them any more.
Be sure to post a nice picture when you get her running!
Hope this helps.
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