Project One M1 Garand finished(almost)

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I had a nice long weekend getaway at my parents place, near Joliette.
Helped my brother work on his boat a little bit (he`s restoring a vintage hydroplane boat, Ms. Pixie)

My own project is shown in the following pictures.

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I`ve been accumulating the parts for years, and was finally able to get it done.
It`s a Breda receiver with a Breda barrel, a few other Breda parts, and the rest is a bit of a mix. SA trigger housing, IHC hammer, misc PB parts etc, but no Winchester parts that I am aware of.
The stock and both handguards are Boyd's
The only part of the assembly that I had trouble with was putting together the rear sights. I got the base, apeture, and the cover in with no trouble, but getting the two knobs together was driving me nuts. I know that i was doing something wrong, but i just could not get them to work.
Is there some sort of special trick to getting the knobs together?

I've got another one on the go, but I need to get a few more parts before I get that done.
 
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Great looking project! So you do have the knobs , correct? Putting them together is like tying your shoelaces; easier to do than it is to explain it.

GREASE the threads of the elevation pinion screw RFN (right now) and then grease the threads of the windage knob as well. This helps prevent cross threading especially if you are using NM threaded/pitch knobs/rear sight base.

Just for your reference, you experienced Garand sight users: The USGI M1 Garand thread pitch is 16 tpi (threads per inch). The NM spec to obtain 1/2 MOA per klik is 32 tpi and hence is easier/prone to cross threading. :eek: Been there, done that! Had to help another CGNutter recover from this error. :rolleyes: years ago!

I start with the elevation knob pushed in (left or portside) as far as it can go.
Then I center the elevation pinion screw in the center of the windage knob 'window' and attempt to 'screw' windage knob into place.
Keep up the pressure (windage knob from the right or starboard side) and screw the windage knob in place until it's flush. This requires a 'feel' that cannot be described on the internet.

Sometimes I will wiggle the rear sight base left and right until the windage knobs settles as tight as it can go into the rear sight base.

Once you are flush and even and all the knobs have no further to screw in, you will know that the knobs are 'home' position because the windage knob now 'clicks' and the rear base moves left and/or right per click.

I now take a flat blade screwdriver and tighten the windage knob pinion screw 1 or TWO :eek: half clicks to obtain the tension needed to move the rear base left and / or right without having to push on the elevation pinion screw head from the left to the right with my left thumb. Go and do that right now with your M14 or M1 Garand sights. As you move the windage left or right, now PUSH on the slotted pinion screw(elevation knob) towards the windage knob. Notice the windage knob is EASIER to klik (left or right) ?

I'm hoping this will work for you. Works for me all the time! ;)

Remind me to demonstrate this at the Calgary M14 Clinic as well as the Winnipeg Selkirk GC clinic this coming summer of 2010.. it's dead easy.
 
This is a former Danish (Navy?) Garand reciever.

"FKF" under Crown stand for "Forsvarets Krigs Forvaltning" (The Defence War (material) Administration), somewhat difficult to translate over to English, since we simply would call such an organization as "Department of Defence", "Department of Navy" etc.
 
An overdue update. :redface:

I got the elevation and windage knobs figured out, finally found my sling as well.

All that is left now is to get the thing headspaced to be safe.

More pics to follow...
 
Thanks NAA

Here are the new pictures.

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As I said before all that remains is to get it headspaced before I shoot it. :D:D
That's the fun part....
 
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