Having some difficulty with reassembly - Page 2

jimmythejug · 11-26-2010, 12:10 AM

Hi. Picked up my 1936 Mauser S/42 yesterday and have been looking it over and playing with it in an effort to get acquainted. I flipped the takedown lever down and removed the side plate and the receiver.

Reinstalled the receiver the first time, not realizing that I needed to position S link in front of the recoil lever as I've learned by watching shadow's excellent short videos on takedown and reassembly.

The problem is, with the S link in front of the recoil lever, the receiver does go back all the way (a few mm short of being even with the back of the frame) and the action does not appear to open.

I'm not going to pull back very hard on the receiver because I don't want to break anything. In shadow's video, the receiver goes back and the action appears to come up very easily.

I'll post photos tomorrow, if needed but I just wanted to put this out there in case I'm missing something simple. Thanks in advance for your help!

11-26-2010, 12:10 AM	#1
jimmythejug User Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 36 Thanks: 1 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Having some difficulty with reassembly Hi. Picked up my 1936 Mauser S/42 yesterday and have been looking it over and playing with it in an effort to get acquainted. I flipped the takedown lever down and removed the side plate and the receiver. Reinstalled the receiver the first time, not realizing that I needed to position S link in front of the recoil lever as I've learned by watching shadow's excellent short videos on takedown and reassembly. The problem is, with the S link in front of the recoil lever, the receiver does go back all the way (a few mm short of being even with the back of the frame) and the action does not appear to open. I'm not going to pull back very hard on the receiver because I don't want to break anything. In shadow's video, the receiver goes back and the action appears to come up very easily. I'll post photos tomorrow, if needed but I just wanted to put this out there in case I'm missing something simple. Thanks in advance for your help!