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Topic: Piston Nut Staking
Posted By: floydthecat
Subject: Piston Nut Staking
Date Posted: Sep 16 2019 at 5:14pm
How odd is it to find a piston nut never staked? I have a Rock barreled action with an Underwood barrel, obviously a rebuild. It has a spanking new nut and piston installed, I am sure never fired since it was installed. I can find no evidence of any previous staking. The gas cylinder is integral to the barrel, so it has to be original.



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Posted By: painter777
Date Posted: Sep 16 2019 at 6:17pm
Hi Floyd,
The other day Dan dug up a copy/link to a PS Magazine to show me. We were going on about proper Oiler install.
In the link there was a 1961 dated page that pointed out that as of then it was ok under the right circumstances that a GI could remove, clean and replace the gas piston on his own instead of having to have it done by the Armorer-Artificer.
As long as it really needed cleaning the GI could do so if they followed the new procedure.
Basically using the proper wrench and tightening just past finger tight.
It called for NO MORE STAKING.
Maybe yours falls in to this 1961 or later time frame ?

I'll try posting the illustrations and the page link.

HTH,
Charlie-P777



NO MORE STAKING:



For More Tips Follow The Link to:
PS Magazine, a Postscript to technical manuals and other published maintenance guidance done in a comic book style.....

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ETA: Credit to Newsman1 for the Article


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Posted By: floydthecat
Date Posted: Sep 16 2019 at 6:31pm
I did not acquire the action for the barrel, but for the receiver to do a build. The action has been re-parked and it’s solid. Good to hear that somebody may have actually been following instructions by not staking it. Looks to me like the original nut was never staked. This is a 6.08 early 44-ish receiver. I went to my Fred Sanford drawer full of spectacles and never did find a pair that indicated staking-tracks on the cylinder.


Posted By: painter777
Date Posted: Sep 16 2019 at 7:24pm
Fresh nut and piston are a good thing.At Least you know there are no problems there, like the examples below.
I've handled 3 carbines for friends that were ruined @ the gas piston/gas cylinder. All bought (for too much $$ ) at farm/estate auctions far from home.
2 had the gas cylinders badly cracked. The last one the nut was wasted... looking like they had tried to remove it with channel locks. Inner threads were so bad we couldn't chase them to recover. 2 received different barrels, the other had the owner so pizzed off he bent the barrel over his knee in to a U shape. I just recently sold that receiver for him. A WRA last style spring tube 1,126,xxx. I wish I could have got a picture of that bent barrel..... reminded you of a secret prototype that could shoot around corners. It would have looked comical but he wasn't in a joking mood. Him being a ex Pro NBA player @ 6'10" it wasn't like I could take it from him. He tossed it in the back of his pick up as he was leaving.
BTW those barrels bend easier than I would have thought.

Good luck on your build,
Charlie-P777


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Posted By: floydthecat
Date Posted: Sep 16 2019 at 8:02pm
I am not in the collector class, the shooter class. I was not looking for a Rock-Ola action, but it presented itself at a price well below what I’ve seen barreled actions go for, especially the scarce ones.


Posted By: Dirty30Carbine
Date Posted: Sep 16 2019 at 9:39pm
why does it seem that so many rockola were rearsenalled with Underwood barrels? I have one, you have one, I’ve seen probably 5-6 others. 


Posted By: m1a1fan
Date Posted: Sep 16 2019 at 10:06pm
Underwood was quite the barrel maker and rebuilder of carbines.

http://www.uscarbinecal30.com/forum/underwood-rebuild-program-1951_topic3928.html" rel="nofollow - http://www.uscarbinecal30.com/forum/underwood-rebuild-program-1951_topic3928.html


Posted By: floydthecat
Date Posted: Sep 17 2019 at 4:40am
This being a BR only, I don’t have a stock that could speak about where it’s been. After my 3rd or 4th. cup of coffee this morning, I may get a picture of the piston and sight staking. If this receiver ever had a flip on it, it was never staked. It wears an I.R. CO T3 rear with one perfect punch in the right front corner.

As with the Underwood barrels I have had, dates are hit-n-miss. All I see is a 4 and I’m not real sure what position it’s in.


Posted By: bumppo
Date Posted: Jul 27 2020 at 9:40pm
   as i was cleaning my first M1 carbine for the first time since acquiring it a month ago, i noticed the gas cylinder nut was loose. it rotated freely when i passed a brush over it.
   i'd fired a hundred rounds from this gun in the week prior with only three cycling failures.
   the nut turned out easily using fingers only until the last two threads, which were hard to turn with my fingers at the same point in each rotation. i cleaned the nut, piston and cylinder and photographed the nut before threading it back into place. I tightened it finger tight and then tapped one of the indents with a wooden stick.
   as the photo shows, two of the indents were already in a seriously damaged condition.
   i haven't fired the gun yet since reassembling it. 
  


Posted By: bumppo
Date Posted: Jul 27 2020 at 9:49pm
here is the nut back in position:


Posted By: bumppo
Date Posted: Jul 27 2020 at 10:05pm
it was only as I was posting the last photo that I noticed the cylinder is damaged too at the rim! it has a hole in the cylinder wall! the rim?


Posted By: painter777
Date Posted: Jul 27 2020 at 11:39pm
The hole underneath is the port hole to clean out.
There is a cut away here some where you'll be able to see how that hole runs at an angle to the gas hole in the barrel.

Looks as though its got chipped from the 'Rim'. Maybe from someone trying to stake and the punch slipped.
Shouldn't be a problem IMO as long as your nut threads in tight........... but not too tight.

Someone will point you towards the cut away so you can see what I can't type clearly.
For now, take a breath, you should be fine.

Other Opinions ??

Cheers,
Ch-P777

PS: If my pictures don't work see this link on Gas Cylinders.......... Thanks to The Sleepless One:
http://www.uscarbinecal30.com/barrels.html" rel="nofollow - http://www.uscarbinecal30.com/barrels.html
 







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Posted By: W5USMC
Date Posted: Jul 27 2020 at 11:56pm
Originally posted by painter777 painter777 wrote:

Shouldn't be a problem IMO as long as your nut threads in tight........... but not too tight.

Agree that it should not be an issue as long as the nut tightens up, have seen a few like that.




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Posted By: New2brass
Date Posted: Jul 28 2020 at 1:15pm
TM 9-1276 C1 (correction order 1) dated 4, September 1956:
TM 9-1276 17, Feb 1953, is changed as follows: 
56: Disassembly
 b.Removing Gas Piston and Piston Nut (Field or Depot Maintenance).
 Note. (Added) The using of troop organization is authorized to disassemble the gas piston nut from the gas cylinder for cleaning purposes under the supervision of the organizational artificer. 

this predates the PS monthly by 5 years.
Just because a nut has stake marks does not mean it is staked, it may have been removed and not re-staked.



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