From: (Harry Andreas)
Date: 7/6/2004 6:13 PM Central Daylight


As an aside my garand is a very low, less than 500, serial number. I'm
collecting parts to restore it to its original gas trap system.

Mine's a 1943 Springfield build, and I'm thinking of doing the conversion
to .308 like the Navy did for their National Match guns.

--
Harry Andreas
Engineering raconteur

Pic your parts carefully, measure carefully, get a pull through NM chamber
reamer and above all else take your time. If you lived close enough I'd loan
you my action wrench. That's the easy part. Just remember bedding the action is
an art.

One thing to check on your op rod is for the cut out where the handle meets the
rod. It's there because the old style which didn't have it would break if the
op rod came far enough back to strike the front of the receiver.

Good luck with your project.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired