Interesting Winchester 94 issue

[MontanaGunPorter]

I have been working on an older Model 94AE for a friend of mine. Previously I had it because it wouldn't extract. So I got it going or at least appearing to function including extract and brought it back to him. The next week he let me know that it was jammed up so I took it back in to see what was wrong and just the other day I took the link out and found the protrusions that control the elevator and keep it from going to far down were broken off. So a new link it is.

It is an Angle Eject model so obviously it's newer probably 90's or so. But it's interesting to see the link break like that. Luckily it was an easy fix. For a bit I definitely thought it was going to be one of those ones where I would have to phone-a-friend.

 

[gunrunner100]

When Olin went to cast parts (sintered?), this occurred. I've seen it a few times as well.

 

[MontanaGunPorter]

Yeah, it’s more than likely a cast part. I seem to recall though I could be wrong that at least at some point they used powdered metal parts(sintered) similar to the automotive world but I could definitely be wrong

 

[Jonnyofalltrades]

I have seen this happen before on a post-64.
My solution at the time was to drill a hole on the location of the missing bit and fit a hardened pin. After getting it seated, the outer part of it was shaped to match an original part.
It worked fine, but I would probably do it differently today...

 

[MontanaGunPorter]

Nice, that seems like it would work well. I ended up just buying a new one and now it’s running great the only issue now is the retainer screw seems too long. But that’s not too difficult to figure out.