Geezerbiker
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I need to vent a bit after completing a bear of a cleaning project...
A friend of the family gave my twin grandsons each a Marlin 99 .22 semiauto rifles. Both of the rifles were so crudded up that neither of them would function when we went out to shoot them. I had other rifles for the boys to shoot so I figured I'd take them apart and clean them before the boys came back for their next visit.
The first one wasn't much trouble so I figured another 15 minutes and I'd be done. As I was putting the trigger group back in the second rifle, it fell apart in my hand. After an hour of futzing with it, I figured my only hope was to look at the other rifle. I wasn't sure I wanted to do this as I didn't need 2 rifles that I didn't know how to put back together....
Anyway there are 4 little E-clips that hold the trigger group together and all 4 were missing from the second rifle. Now I knew where the last couple of bits went, it was another hour of futzing with it to get it back together and functioning. I was able to manually cycle 5 rounds though it and at that point I didn't care if I ever saw it again.
At one point I was so frustrated that I was ready to toss them in the trash and go buy a couple 10/.22s...
Anyway I'm not touching it again until I can find some of those tiny e-Clips.
Sorry for the rant...
Tony
A friend of the family gave my twin grandsons each a Marlin 99 .22 semiauto rifles. Both of the rifles were so crudded up that neither of them would function when we went out to shoot them. I had other rifles for the boys to shoot so I figured I'd take them apart and clean them before the boys came back for their next visit.
The first one wasn't much trouble so I figured another 15 minutes and I'd be done. As I was putting the trigger group back in the second rifle, it fell apart in my hand. After an hour of futzing with it, I figured my only hope was to look at the other rifle. I wasn't sure I wanted to do this as I didn't need 2 rifles that I didn't know how to put back together....
Anyway there are 4 little E-clips that hold the trigger group together and all 4 were missing from the second rifle. Now I knew where the last couple of bits went, it was another hour of futzing with it to get it back together and functioning. I was able to manually cycle 5 rounds though it and at that point I didn't care if I ever saw it again.
At one point I was so frustrated that I was ready to toss them in the trash and go buy a couple 10/.22s...
Anyway I'm not touching it again until I can find some of those tiny e-Clips.
Sorry for the rant...
Tony