Few issues with my SKS

Morder said:
It's my first gun so I don't have experience to know if what's happening is normal or not.

First of all, the gun has a weird wax look to it and all the parts are coated in oily brown stuff, I thought it was cosmo, maybe it is, but I decided to remove most of it and put my own oil.

After putting the spring in with the hollow circle facing the barrel, I use the cover to push it in place but sometimes it gives a bit of resistance and i need keep it in place to prevent it from bouncing off while I try to lock the thingy. Some other times it just sits in with no resistance at all. What is the right way?

I also noticed the bolt is really hard to pull back, could be me being too gentle but it also stop a cm before touching the rear sight block, I have to manually push it forward with a bit of force for it to fully chamber a round, I didn't actually test it but I would presume it wouldn't chamber it properly.

The mag is also impossible to remove. I removed the trigger, then I use a wedge to lift the mag a bit, but even with a vise grip, I couldn't pull it out so I decided to not break it and repack the whole thing.
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DO NOT ever do this with a live round! If the firing pin is stuck forward and you do this, the rifle can fire, driving the bolt and carrier backwards, say bye bye to your hand and possibly other body parts.
Just pull the charging handle all the way back and let it go, using the built up spring tension to chamber a round. (With the rifle pointing in a safe direction, of course)
Like several others have said, watch several Youtube videos on disassembly and cleaning of it, and make sure you clean every bit of cosmo out of every nook, cranny and orifice.
 
the mag on my SKS was really hard to get out as well. i had to take a flathead screw driver and pound on each side of the lips from the top down to get it out. I sanded a bit of the wood away on either side and now it goes in and out nice.
 
DiabeticKripple said:
the mag on my SKS was really hard to get out as well. i had to take a flathead screw driver and pound on each side of the lips from the top down to get it out. I sanded a bit of the wood away on either side and now it goes in and out nice.
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I had to tap mine out with a screwdriver too. Didn't touch the wood though.
 
It was painful to remove, but I used a flathead screwdriver and used it as a wedge in front of the trigger group, it popped out smoothly with barely any force.

Other than that, the rifle is fully clean and I smell like ####. I'll take it to the range tomorrow, hopefully.
 
Morder said:
It was painful to remove, but I used a flathead screwdriver and used it as a wedge in front of the trigger group, it popped out smoothly with barely any force.

Other than that, the rifle is fully clean and I smell like ####. I'll take it to the range tomorrow, hopefully.
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Awesome, the firing pin rattles freely, bore clean, remember to just put one round in for the first couple shots to make sure every thing runs well and push the rounds in the mag, let the bolt carrier group strip the round out as you pull back and let it fly forward! Enjoy!
 
Good job, I was rootin for ya. I haven't had my sks very long either.
I found the best way to learn the disassembly, Assembly and cleaning steps was to watch a youtube video step by step. By that I mean, watch a step and pause the video, then do that step then play and pause the next step and so on, until I had it fully taken apart, cleaned and reassembled. After a couple of times you'll be able to do it with your eyes closed,,,, not really, but I'm sure you get what I'm saying.
Have fun. I know I am. To bad it's limited to just 5 rounds, but that's our stupid gun laws, we'll save that for another thread.
 
Morder said:
It's my first gun so I don't have experience to know if what's happening is normal or not.

First of all, the gun has a weird wax look to it and all the parts are coated in oily brown stuff, I thought it was cosmo, maybe it is, but I decided to remove most of it and put my own oil.

After putting the spring in with the hollow circle facing the barrel, I use the cover to push it in place but sometimes it gives a bit of resistance and i need keep it in place to prevent it from bouncing off while I try to lock the thingy. Some other times it just sits in with no resistance at all. What is the right way?

I also noticed the bolt is really hard to pull back, could be me being too gentle but it also stop a cm before touching the rear sight block, I have to manually push it forward with a bit of force for it to fully chamber a round, I didn't actually test it but I would presume it wouldn't chamber it properly.

The mag is also impossible to remove. I removed the trigger, then I use a wedge to lift the mag a bit, but even with a vise grip, I couldn't pull it out so I decided to not break it and repack the whole thing.
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Without reading any comments, I'm not sure exactly what the problem is but a couple of times when I first got my sks, upon reassembly, after I re-inserted the action it didn't simply fall into its fully closed position against the chamber, then when I put the spring in it wouldn't be all the way down. When I pressed the back cover on it there would be a bit of resistance because it wasn't down where it was supposed to be, but of course the pressure would push the bolt completely into battery and the resistance would be gone.
 
GlassLightning said:
Without reading any comments, I'm not sure exactly what the problem is but a couple of times when I first got my sks, upon reassembly, after I re-inserted the action it didn't simply fall into its fully closed position against the chamber, then when I put the spring in it wouldn't be all the way down. When I pressed the back cover on it there would be a bit of resistance because it wasn't down where it was supposed to be, but of course the pressure would push the bolt completely into battery and the resistance would be gone.
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Yep.
 
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