Hi, I recently bought a Navy Trophy Garand MK2 Mod1 grade B, with all the paperwork, but as I tried to clean it I ran into a few issues, that I was hoping to find out more about.
1. There is no gap between the front handguard ferrule and the gas cylinder, seems like they are attached to each other?
2. The front handguard is immobile with respect to the front ferrule and the lower band, again seems to be glued in and there is not metal insert along the bottom of the front handguard
3. The lower band has no pin connecting it to the barrel, one can see a corner of the barrel through the pin hole, so it is not aligned by at least 1 or 2 mm
4. The rear handguard does shift back and forth a couple millimeters
5. When I unscrewed the gas plug there was some serious carbon build up, so I cleaned it as best I could as I was afraid to take off the gas cylinder (seems like it's on incredibly tight or glued/welded on in the back, but it is flush against the ferrule). After cleaning I was curious to measure the gas cylinder and the 0.528" gauge pin would not go through, perhaps it is slightly undersized or I did not clean it well enough. The pin would stop at the shoulder. The gas piston is exactly 0.525, so maybe it's ok...
All of this is not what I am use to with Garands, but it is supposed to be an accurized version and I could not find much detailed information, hope someone here can help.
1. There is no gap between the front handguard ferrule and the gas cylinder, seems like they are attached to each other?
2. The front handguard is immobile with respect to the front ferrule and the lower band, again seems to be glued in and there is not metal insert along the bottom of the front handguard
3. The lower band has no pin connecting it to the barrel, one can see a corner of the barrel through the pin hole, so it is not aligned by at least 1 or 2 mm
4. The rear handguard does shift back and forth a couple millimeters
5. When I unscrewed the gas plug there was some serious carbon build up, so I cleaned it as best I could as I was afraid to take off the gas cylinder (seems like it's on incredibly tight or glued/welded on in the back, but it is flush against the ferrule). After cleaning I was curious to measure the gas cylinder and the 0.528" gauge pin would not go through, perhaps it is slightly undersized or I did not clean it well enough. The pin would stop at the shoulder. The gas piston is exactly 0.525, so maybe it's ok...
All of this is not what I am use to with Garands, but it is supposed to be an accurized version and I could not find much detailed information, hope someone here can help.
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