SKS break down

svt-40 said:
You mean, complete takedown? You should not endeavor if you have to ask, IMHO.
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How else does a guy learn? I love taking a rifle apart and really getting to know it...especially without a manual...thats what all of you are for:p
 
Wow, that's a great link, just what I was looking for, thanks!

Not to hijack this thread or anything, but I just bought an SKS and it's my first new rifle. Of course it's smeared with packing grease and I need to clean it before firing... so, do I need to take apart the whole nine yards and clean every little bit?
 
Cleaning the SKS

Azz said:
Wow, that's a great link, just what I was looking for, thanks!

Not to hijack this thread or anything, but I just bought an SKS and it's my first new rifle. Of course it's smeared with packing grease and I need to clean it before firing... so, do I need to take apart the whole nine yards and clean every little bit?
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Well, the three most important zones to clean are the gas system, the barrel and chamber and the bolt (you can use brake cleaner and compressed air for the bolt). So, it doesn't leave much to be cleaned.
If you take the trigger group out, don't try to disassemble it further: just flush it with Rem-Clean, dry it with compressed air, then spray some Rem-Oil in it.
Do not forget to put a dab of high stickyness grease, such as a lithium-based one or Loctite's SuperLube, on the hammer face, breechblock and carrier races and in the locking lug recess.
When reassembling, pay attention to put the wavy part of the recoil spring INTO the carrier's body.
Usually, the piston and piston tube are left dry. However, I put some graphite grease in the two grooves on the piston head. It tends to plate out the tube's metal and doesn't hamper functioning.
Once everything is OK, I wipe the entire firearm with gun oil on a flannel pad to ensure I don't leave fingerprints on the metal.
Good luck!
PP.:)
 
its a good time to get familiar with feild striping it.theres really not much to it,and it is the best way to clean and then to grease lube points.go as far as removing the bolt,trigger group and op rod. hmmm, i guess pp is right ,its not on op rod on this gun ,but a piston.:redface: :redface:
 
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Op-rod

buster said:
its a good time to get familiar with feild striping it.theres really not much to it,and it is the best way to clean and then to grease lube points.go as far as removing the bolt,trigger group and op rod. hmmm, i guess pp is right ,its not on op rod on this gun ,but a piston.:redface: :redface:
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In fact you're right too: there is a secondary op-rod hidden in the base of the rear sight. To access it, you just put your thumb where the end of the gas tube locks into the rear sight block and you carefully lift the little take-down lever on the right side of the sight base one notch higher than the piston tube release position. CAREFUL: if not restrained that little rod will shoot across the room!
There is a very stiff braided spring under it,
Take the spring and rod out, clean that recess with Rem-Clean and a cloth patch, clean the spring and rod and smear some fluid grease on them.
Put them back on by pushing on the assembly and lowering the lever a notch.
Good cleaning!
PP.:)
 
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