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W5USMC 
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 Posted: Mar 16 2019 at 9:35pm |
Congrats, now here is the thing, once you have 1 carbine you need more and more, and once you are really hooked, you will start selling or trading all your other guns for more carbines. They are fun to shoot and addictive to collect! |
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Wayne
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cali201
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Posted: Mar 17 2019 at 5:17am |
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Frank Derrico is the go to guy for carbine stock repairs, you can see a post of his here, sign up and send him a PM. He can make that m2 cutout vanish as well as other repairs to the stock. https://www.milsurps.com/showthread.php?t=62458
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Posted: Mar 17 2019 at 7:47am |
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Frank is a member here as well. Just PM him
http://www.uscarbinecal30.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=2119 Speaking of modified stocks. Here is the brother of yours. It need more immediate help from Frank then yours http://forums.thecmp.org/showthread.php?t=243079 |
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tenOCEE
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Posted: Mar 17 2019 at 9:14am |
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Yesterday I saw an M1A1 forearm piece fashioned from a standard M1 stock. Interesting timing I know but it belongs to a friend who was curious what it was. Also it wasn't a high wood. Guess they needed one but didn't want to burn a high wood. It also didn't have the side relief area for the leather cheek piece. Shoulda got a pic of the extra hole, but if you see one you shouldn't be confused. It's dead center where the recoil plate screw goes through. M1A1 stocks shouldn't have a centered hole under the recoil. Here's one of odd wood structure compared with the normal Walnut. Both are authentic.  |
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tenOCEE
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Posted: Mar 17 2019 at 9:17am |
Afraid there's little help for this one.  |
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Posted: Mar 17 2019 at 10:07am |
  
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Semper Fi
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tenOCEE
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Posted: Mar 17 2019 at 10:18am |
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Definitely fake. Kidding. Right between those two holes would be a 3rd if it was a standard stock cut down. EDIT: Looks like you have the long wood type grip screw too. Seems I read that rebuilds got replaced with a short one like a butt plate screw. Think I remember that later ones were shorter by design? Someone will probably chime in for correction as needed.
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m1a1fan
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Posted: Mar 17 2019 at 10:51am |
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Noticed what looks like a different lower hinge screw in previous pictures. Looked like it had a flat bottom vs. the rounded ones I'm used to seeing.
Also, inside the grip, where the spring goes, check and see if there is a little washer. It can be missed as sometimes, it is stuck inside. See the little red arrow in the middle of the photo below. 
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Posted: Mar 17 2019 at 2:25pm |
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I noticed the bottom screw in the grip was flat too but wasn't sure if that was correct or not compared to other pics I've seen. I know the stock operates much better now that it's been dis and reassd 👍
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Posted: Mar 17 2019 at 5:02pm |
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Are we talking about the long wood screw?
MWO ORD B28-W4 20 March 1944 was to discard the 2 3/32 screw and replace with a new 2 3/4 screw. This was to allow a commercial screw and prevent splitting of the grip. It is in CCNL 379 and 384 the MWO was canceled 8 Nov 1945 The 1944 MWO superseded the Feild Service Work Order FSMWO B28-W2 4-Nov 1943 We do not have a copy of this. If anyone has one we sure would appreciate being able to check it out!
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Posted: Mar 17 2019 at 5:19pm |
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I believe Tenn was referring to the long screw in the top, I was responding about the screw in the bottom being flat and not rounded.
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m1a1fan
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Posted: Mar 17 2019 at 5:21pm |
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My comment was about the lower hinge screw that goes into the bottom of the pistol grip .vs the grip screw. Now that you mention the grip screw, the head of the lower hinge screw shown earlier reminds of the grip screw head.
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Posted: Mar 18 2019 at 4:54pm |
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Sorry to beat this horse to death but I was on the CMP site and ran across this listed as "foreign wood". Just wondering if someone could educate me on the subject?
http://cmpauction.thecmp.org/detail.asp?id=48342&n=Inland-M1A1-Carbine-66308155 
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Posted: Mar 18 2019 at 6:35pm |
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03eleven, I know that Greece had produced or had produced for them M1A1 stocks, I also know that at one time the CMP had Greek Returned Carbines, maybe the case here.
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Wayne
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