M305 Cleaning/Disassemble

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Got my Norinco M305 in and I didnt get a manual with the rifle.

Anybody know of a link to help me out or give me some tips on how to disassemble this rifle so I can take it out tommorrow and see how she operates.

Please.
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[pilgrim]

Hi....take a look at this web-site )))

http://www.surplusrifle.com/m14m1a/index.asp

especially: http://www.surplusrifle.com/m14m1a/rifledisassembly/index.asp

 

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That looks like some good info but I cant get my trigger guard to budge.

Anybody else get or got this?

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[t-star]

can you get your trigger guard to swing open?- sometimes they're tight and need to wiggle-where in calgary are you?

 

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Thanks for the offer T-star but I got the trigger guard off.

I gave it another try while not being gentle. It worked - just have to put some effort into it. Was a heck of a pull though.

I'm onto the gas cylinder now. Should I rotate the screw just 90 degrees so the thread is inline with the barrel and then unscrew the bolt? Seems like a lot of resistance there - dont want to strip or damage anything.

Thanks for the input guys.

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[death-junky]

ok to get your trigger gaurd to open #### your rifle first then PUSH in the safty, little thing in the trigger gaurd in fron of the trigger, and the put a stick or pen or what ever in to the hole in the back of the trigger gaurd behind the triger(this will just make it easyer to pull it down. you dont need to do this it just makes it alot easyer) and pull down this will pull out the whole trigger group letting the stock come off.
talk to ya all later
Riley

 

[t-star]

you don't need to anything to the screw - that directs the gas hole either open for semi-auto or closed for single shot /grenade launcher- just use your combo tool wrench end on the gas cylinder- you may have to whang on it a couple of times to get to loosen or use a rubber mallet, but it will come off- i've even used a ratchet at times-it's not a metric socket- it's almost like they use a sealer of some type to secure the gas plug- once the gas plug is off,tilt the muzzle down and the piston will drop out the end- when you put the piston back in, make sure the tail goes through the hole on the back of the cylinder properly and has free travel up and down before you put the gas plug back on as it IS possible to assemble it wrong and not feed- i lock the bolt back when working on the gas cylinder so i can hear it "flop" back and forth- the rest of the strip is in fm23-8

 

[Turf]

Here is another good link:

http://www.biggerhammer.net/manuals/

right click to download the m14 manual and when it asks for username type in manuals and the password is chipin

 

[Hungry]

All you fellas saved me a pile of typing. Thank you for spreading the good karma.

 

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I would just like to say thanks to all of the posts for the info. Have taken her out to the range twice now and the rifle shoots fine no problems. Still getting used to the peep-hole sight and I do not have it sighted in like I want it yet.

I'll take some more pictures of it later and post.

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