Garndawg
Member
I've got a rifle, handed down from my father, that I'm looking to work on a bit.
It's an early Remington 760 carbine, S/N 500XXX. No idea of the year. It has the solid, one-pc slide tube with the end cap pinned/preened on. Basically, you unscrew the slide tube to disassemble everything. No endcap bolt/screw. As a result, my dad had a barrel clamp swivel put on it, as the endcap swivel like on later models wouldn't work.
If you look at the following diagram, my rifle doesn't have the o-ring #5 or bolt #27, also I don't think I can remove the bolt #7, but haven't tried yet.
http://www.urban-armory.com/diagrams/rem760.htm
Anyhow, that's a brief description of what I'm working with.
Basically, I'd like to do two things to the rifle:
(A) Remove the barrel clamp and install a slide tube swivel. I would imagine this would require replacing the slide tube. Also, I don't think my current slide tube has an indention for the o-ring that I see on the above parts lists. The forearm has a slight rattle and I'm wondering if a new slide tube + ring would eliminate that. I'm looking at the following parts and wondering if anyone might know if they'd work or not.
Slide Tube: Rem P/N F91438
http://www.midwayusa.com/viewProduct...tNumber=956686
Slide tube ring: Rem P/N F15215
http://www.midwayusa.com/viewProduct...tNumber=193554
(B) The other thing, I'd like to replace the magazine release lever (part #38 on the diagram) with something a little easier to use. I believe this is common to the 74 series semiautos. The current one requires two bare hands to release the magazine. Gloves just won't work. I've seen different releases for this rifle on Brownell's and Midway (#0 thru #4) and can only assume one of these is longer and easier to work with. But there are no pics to help with the decision. Has anybody done this before? (Note: I think the ramline 10 rd mags came with a spare mag latch at one time, I assume to deal with this issue. Anybody?)
Thanks for all the advice in advance...
It's an early Remington 760 carbine, S/N 500XXX. No idea of the year. It has the solid, one-pc slide tube with the end cap pinned/preened on. Basically, you unscrew the slide tube to disassemble everything. No endcap bolt/screw. As a result, my dad had a barrel clamp swivel put on it, as the endcap swivel like on later models wouldn't work.
If you look at the following diagram, my rifle doesn't have the o-ring #5 or bolt #27, also I don't think I can remove the bolt #7, but haven't tried yet.
http://www.urban-armory.com/diagrams/rem760.htm
Anyhow, that's a brief description of what I'm working with.
Basically, I'd like to do two things to the rifle:
(A) Remove the barrel clamp and install a slide tube swivel. I would imagine this would require replacing the slide tube. Also, I don't think my current slide tube has an indention for the o-ring that I see on the above parts lists. The forearm has a slight rattle and I'm wondering if a new slide tube + ring would eliminate that. I'm looking at the following parts and wondering if anyone might know if they'd work or not.
Slide Tube: Rem P/N F91438
http://www.midwayusa.com/viewProduct...tNumber=956686
Slide tube ring: Rem P/N F15215
http://www.midwayusa.com/viewProduct...tNumber=193554
(B) The other thing, I'd like to replace the magazine release lever (part #38 on the diagram) with something a little easier to use. I believe this is common to the 74 series semiautos. The current one requires two bare hands to release the magazine. Gloves just won't work. I've seen different releases for this rifle on Brownell's and Midway (#0 thru #4) and can only assume one of these is longer and easier to work with. But there are no pics to help with the decision. Has anybody done this before? (Note: I think the ramline 10 rd mags came with a spare mag latch at one time, I assume to deal with this issue. Anybody?)
Thanks for all the advice in advance...
