Red Dog
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Dear Forum,
New guy, new to K98s, but fairly adept firearms restorer: know the FAL and all it's variants inside and out, the M1 Carbine and the M14 (lots of wood stocks on all those); HK G3, the Galil, the M16...built many of these from parts kits. I've tinkered with my dad's Pattern 17 Enfield, probably the closest thing to the the K98 that I've messed with to date.
So, I bought a K98, a 1938 J.P. Sauer, and the first thing I did was break it all down--just a field strip really, cleaned everything, and set about removing cosmoline and everything else from the laminated sock. (The only matching serials are the receiver and barrel).
Barrel and Receiver: 3791
Bolt: Can't find anything but an M and a faint Waffenamt both on the rear of the bolt handle--though it does have a plum colored extractor, somewhere I read that that was Sauer thing.
Stock: 4660 Na 2 9 42
Everything else is a mismatch, most all Waffenamts and Weimar proofs, throughout the rifle, are in place however.
The question: The cupped Butt Plate; it came off fairly easy, but now, even after the stock drying for more than 24 hours (I used Windex, sprayed-on and worked around by hand and a sponge--did not soak the stock), doesn't really want to go back on! WTH? Is there a trick to this, or does the lam stock soak it up and you just have to wait?
Yes, I know that the cupped butt-plate stock is probably not correct for my 38 Sauer.
Any help will be greatly appreciated. And please, if this post needs to be somewhere else, just let me know.
Red Dog
New guy, new to K98s, but fairly adept firearms restorer: know the FAL and all it's variants inside and out, the M1 Carbine and the M14 (lots of wood stocks on all those); HK G3, the Galil, the M16...built many of these from parts kits. I've tinkered with my dad's Pattern 17 Enfield, probably the closest thing to the the K98 that I've messed with to date.
So, I bought a K98, a 1938 J.P. Sauer, and the first thing I did was break it all down--just a field strip really, cleaned everything, and set about removing cosmoline and everything else from the laminated sock. (The only matching serials are the receiver and barrel).
Barrel and Receiver: 3791
Bolt: Can't find anything but an M and a faint Waffenamt both on the rear of the bolt handle--though it does have a plum colored extractor, somewhere I read that that was Sauer thing.
Stock: 4660 Na 2 9 42
Everything else is a mismatch, most all Waffenamts and Weimar proofs, throughout the rifle, are in place however.
The question: The cupped Butt Plate; it came off fairly easy, but now, even after the stock drying for more than 24 hours (I used Windex, sprayed-on and worked around by hand and a sponge--did not soak the stock), doesn't really want to go back on! WTH? Is there a trick to this, or does the lam stock soak it up and you just have to wait?
Yes, I know that the cupped butt-plate stock is probably not correct for my 38 Sauer.
Any help will be greatly appreciated. And please, if this post needs to be somewhere else, just let me know.
Red Dog
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