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RE:Loose barrel on lee-enfield
Not uncommon on old Lee's. Read Roy Dunlap's book "Gunsmithing" for how British Armours solved this problem, but if it was my Rifle, i'd get some "Thread-locking " Loctite, either the red or green.Clean all oil off threads, apply Lotite and screw Barrel in.Trust me, it works. I used this idea on a Woodsman pistol and it worked fine, never any problem with it.The reason my barrel was loose was it was a replacement barrel, the original had been cut-off by a drug dealer to make a "belly-gun".I was lucky to have my stolen gun returned by the police, this was 1982, these days i'd expect to hear it was melted down, esp. in California where i was living at the time, now in Texas.A free state at last.
Not uncommon on old Lee's. Read Roy Dunlap's book "Gunsmithing" for how British Armours solved this problem, but if it was my Rifle, i'd get some "Thread-locking " Loctite, either the red or green.Clean all oil off threads, apply Lotite and screw Barrel in.Trust me, it works. I used this idea on a Woodsman pistol and it worked fine, never any problem with it.The reason my barrel was loose was it was a replacement barrel, the original had been cut-off by a drug dealer to make a "belly-gun".I was lucky to have my stolen gun returned by the police, this was 1982, these days i'd expect to hear it was melted down, esp. in California where i was living at the time, now in Texas.A free state at last.
