Enfield Spare Parts Kit?

RobP

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I've got a No. 5 - what should I keep on hand as a spare parts kit?

I'm thinking extractor springs (due to a past experience....those of you who know what I'm speaking of...please raise your hands...CGN handle may start with SKSC..... ;) ) - but besides that, what else?

Thanks,
Rob
 
if you just keep a complete spare bolthead assembly, you'll be close....... as well as set up for the next century or two.

Treat the rifle as if it were worth more than 35 cents and it will last. Nearly all damage to Lee-Enfields is a result of poor maintenance or abuse.
 
So, if I was to get a couple spart bolt heads, it presently has a No. 1 on it, I assume I should maybe get a no. 1 and no. 2?

Rob
 
"...I should maybe get a..." Bolt heads are getting scarce and expensive. They run $11.30US from Gunparts. $19 from Marstar, but they don't say what numbers they have.
However, the only reason to get a No. 1 is if your existing one gets damaged somehow. A No.2 would be handy, but just changing the bolt head to the next number up doesn't mean it'll fix a headspace issue should you ever have one. You'd need the guages too.
 
I had a broken firing pin once on a Cno7, but that was likely due to poor fitting of the firing pin in the first place. Otherwise I can't say as how I have ever had a piece break on an Enfield.
As to buying boltheads in anticipation of the day you will wear yours out, put your $20 into a savings account and wait until you need it (if ever).

I use my no4T sniper in various matches throughout the year where it is shot fast and furious. I have yet to have an issue with anything on it, although at a match not too long ago at Wolverine's, I thought I was going to need wood, since it was starting to smoke.
 
stencollector said:
I had a broken firing pin once on a Cno7, but that was likely due to poor fitting of the firing pin in the first place. Otherwise I can't say as how I have ever had a piece break on an Enfield.
As to buying boltheads in anticipation of the day you will wear yours out, put your $20 into a savings account and wait until you need it (if ever).

I use my no4T sniper in various matches throughout the year where it is shot fast and furious. I have yet to have an issue with anything on it, although at a match not too long ago at Wolverine's, I thought I was going to need wood, since it was starting to smoke.
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Thats a lot of shooting! I was at our Tactical Rifle match last year, with a WW2 theme. I put on a bayonet for one run, and after about 25 quick rounds, I could not hold onto it to remove it.. No wood smoke though.
 
I believe the number of rounds was around 80 in 10 minutes, and it was around a 30 degree day. The oil was seeping from the wood for quite some time afterwards, and the center band was too hot to hold. A true sniper would only have needed 1/4 of those rounds. But trying to knock bowling pins at 290 yards got frustrating, and volume became the key.

That is why I went to my 1919A4 for the D-day match....volume works for me. On that one I was going through around 200+ rounds in 5 minutes.
 
SKScanuck said:
And buy a few extractor springs. I just snapped two trying to put them in....
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A suggestion on that. take some dental floss, make a double loop of it, and use it to pull the spring into the bolt head. I have done that.

Now Indian 2A and 2a1 springs have to be the worst. Too damm brittle. Had a broken one and replaced it with a .303 spring and the rifle worked just as well.
 
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