Cooney ( Sears ) 6C parts Canadian made

[armoredman]

Nifty!

[LAGS]

Update,
Today I received the parts that I had ordered from GPC.
Well , the parts for the Cooey 64 are close.
But they need some modification to make them work.
The Magazine itself looks like it is a perfect fit.
The Ejector needs some filing and fitting to get it to look like it will work.
Now the bolt Handle.
The shaft that goes into the bolt body is Too Small of Diameter, to fit properly in the hole in the bolt body.
So I will take a piece of old .22 cal. Barrel liner and make a sleeve to fit over the bolt handle shaft and turn it down to the OD that is needed to fit the bolt body.
Now the question is,
Do I anchor the reducing sleeve to the inside of the bolt body to reduce that hole size ?
Or do I attach it to the shaft on the bolt handle , to make the shaft larger diameter to fit the hole in the bolt body ?

[LAGS]

I made the sleeve for the bolt handle.
I am going to solder it to the bolt handle tomorrow.
Mainly because ,
The bolt handle pushes in for a safety space and a Hold Open spot.

[armoredman]

This is getting interesting.

[LAGS]

Well I was able to fit the bolt handle and Ejector to the rifle.
I made up some dummy rounds with my die for reloading .22 Lr's.
The gun dry cycles the dummy ammo out of the magazine that I ordered with those other parts.
At this house I don't have my Test Firing Chamber any more.
So I will have to go out to the range or the desert to test fire it.
But I think it will work.
I don't know if that extractor will last a long time.
But Hay , it does eject the casings so far.
I did get the parts to work , even though I didn't have factory matching replacement parts or any info on what the parts actually looked like.
Nor did I have the original parts to make copies from

[LAGS]

Today I test fired the rifle.
It fires the round.
It extracts the casing from the chamber.
But it doesn't always Eject the empty casing from the receiver.
But like I said before.
This Ejector is not one that fits the rifle.
But I can't see what modifications that I will have to do to get it to work properly.

[LAGS]

I am going to try to make a new Ejector rather than try to modify one from another model.
As for metal to make the ejector out of ?
I need some hard spring steel about .050" thick.
I looked thru my shop.
I found old SawsAll blades that fit the size I need.
It will take me time to play with this.
I have made springs parts out of old saw blades like worn out Circular Saw blade metal as well as old Hack Saw Blade metal.
I have used these types of metal to make things like flat 22 firing pins , hands for some revolvers and even some heavier Flat Springs like mainsprings and even some flat springs for Muzzleloader locks.

[armoredman]

There is no such thing as "scrap metal" at LAGS, there are simply parts that haven't been made yet.

[LAGS]

Hi guys.
Just to give you an update on the Cooey Rebuild.
I made another Extractor out of flat spring steel.
The other extractor did work but there was still ejection problems.
I made the Ejector out of that piece of steel from a SawsAll blades.
It does eject the casing better , but not consistant.
But I found something else that I figure may be the problem.
Remember , I had ordered a Bolt Handle for an American made model.
It didn't fit the bolt.
The shank was smaller than the hole in the bolt.
So I had soldered a sleeve onto the shank to make it fit.
But I think I was Wrong.
That shank is that size because instead of the shank fitting the bolt body , I think that there is a coil spring that fits on the shank and fits inside the bolt body.
That spring will also apply pressure to the Ejector.
So when the bolt moves back , it will rotate the extractor more and maybe eject the spent casing with more pressure.
I found a spring that will work in my drawer of saved springs.
Now I just have to find time to cut the spring to the right length and solder a collar to that bolt handle to limit the spring travel against the receiver interior.
Maybe the Canadian Model bolt handle had that stop on it for the spring.
Now this Canadian model was the first of this rifle design.
So maybe the American models have improvements that gives the reason why those parts don't fit the original models.
We will see.
This project is becoming an interesting challenge.
But so far , I feel I will be able to get the rifle shooting reliably.

[armoredman]

Nifty indeed.

[LAGS]

I did some test firing today on the rifle.
It is now Functioning properly.
The biggest issue was the Ejector and took some time to get all the bugs worked out from the hand built part with nothing to compare it too.
I will do a little more test firing to make sure all the problems are solved.