1873 Cleaned, now stiff action ???

[Cemetery]

Just took my '73 apart to clean it.

Put it back together, now the action super stiff.     



Everything works real smooth, until I insert the middle pin into the toggles, then it get super stiff about halfway through cycling it.

When I take that middle pin out, I and work the lever and carrier real easy.  Same thing with the bolt and firing pin, toggles also work real smooth.

I can't figure it.

This ever happen to anybody else??

[Cemetery]

Geez.....

.....lube is all it needed.....

who would thought??

[Deadeye Don]

Geez.....

.....lube is all it needed.....

who would thought??

The answer to many of lifes problems.

[Coffinmaker]

Lube??  Really???

You mean we're suppose to LUBRICATE these things

OMG ...... and all this time I thought .............

Coffinmaker

[Cemetery]

Lube??  Really???

You mean we're suppose to LUBRICATE these things

OMG ...... and all this time I thought .............

Coffinmaker

And this whole time when people mentioned different lubes, I thought it was just a bunch of voodoo........

[Shotgun Franklin]

The very first gun I ever bought was a surplus Carcano. I was very new to guns. To clean off all the grit, grime and grease I field stripped the gun and washed the barreled action action in gasoline. When assembled everything frozen up. I figured it out after a bit but was surprised that I needed to have oil on a gun for it to work.     

[Fox Creek Kid]

The answer to many of lifes problems.

Little in life cannot be resolved with high explosives or Vaseline.