How To Disassemble And Clean A Marlin Model 60

I'd been thinking seriously nearly a beater .22 during the past couple of squirrel seasons due to worry about getting a scratch on my beautiful, high-dollar Remington 541S. In March, 2005, I walked in the local pawn shop, and there on the rack leaned the Marlin Model 60 you meet in the photo above. It was equipped with the Tasco 4X, 1" tube burglarize scope shown. In other words, ready for the squirrel woods.

A expect through a loupe at the rifling only below the cage crown showed goose egg cleaning rod wear. The rifle had ane lilliputian rust spot on the barrel and a couple of minor dings in the stock. For $110 cash, it followed me home.

Later on zeroing the scope, I checked it for accurateness and function. Information technology put 5 shots @ 25 yards in or touching a 1/2" square. It fired 20+ rounds without failure. It was a keeper, for sure.

I decided to take it apart to clean it and to check for internal habiliment. I consulted with my pard, Dennis Dezendorf, as he owned a Marlin Model 60. He gave a couple of unproblematic directions which I plant too piece of cake to be truthful. And then I went to the Brownells site for a await at a schematic and a cheque of available parts. Lo and behold, Brownells sells every part that could maybe break on a Marlin Model 60 except for the barrel and the receiver.

For the purpose of this tutorial I have listed the Brownells proper noun and retail price for each part. I did that hands because I saved the proper Brownells schematic web page to my computer's desktop. Offline, I tin can open the page and at that place'due south the schematic and the parts listing. You should do the same. An exploded view is handy when trying to put something back together. Hint hint.

In Cyberspace Explorer, in the upper left-mitt corner of the window click "File." When the tab opens, click "Save As. . . ." and save the web folio to your desktop or wherever. (Don't worry. The just thing actually on your desktop will be a little clickable icon.)

My pard, Dennis, was correct, I shortly discovered. Non simply was takedown easy, yous can totally disassemble a Marlin Model 60 with one screwdriver.

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The numbers are the Brownells schematic numbers.

I began with the chamber empty , the hammer artsy, and the bolt all the way forrad.

Nosotros start with removal of the inner magazine tube.

(# 35: Magazine Tube Assembly, Inner, $nineteen.93.)

Merely pull it out the top of the magazine tube.

Turn the rifle over, and put the barrel in a vise.

Remove the numbered screws.

(# 58: Accept Downwardly Spiral, Forepart, $five.xx.)

(# 59: Take Down Screw, Rear, $3.85.)

The screw at the forepart of the trigger guard stays in place. (# 62: Trigger Baby-sit Screw, Front, #2.68 or $2.73.)

The phillips head screw to the right stays in place.
(# 54: Stock Reinforcement Spiral, $2.73.)

Pull the stock up, and off it comes.

The trigger and safe stay in the trigger guard.
(# 60: Trigger Baby-sit, Complete, $17.43.)

Pull out the assembly postal service.
(# 1: Assembly Post, $4.95.)

Mine came out with merely my fingers. You might have to give yours a nudge on the bottom. Information technology'southward plastic, and so don't hit it with a dial.

When the assembly mail comes out, the rear of the hammer mechanism pops upwardly. Pull it backwards, freeing the two little ears at its front, and off it comes.

Here, we're looking down into the receiver at the commodities and the compressed recoil jump.

At the top correct see the assembly post.

At the lesser, see the hammer mechanism.

Now, let's remove the bolt.

Pull it rearward at to the lowest degree one/iv". So push down on the rear of the commodities with your thumb, as shown. The commodities'due south front should ascent out of the receiver slightly, freeing the charging handle. (# xiv: Charging Handle, $7.36.)

Here we come across me belongings the charging handle, and we see the forepart of the bolt in a slight upward position.

The charging handle simply falls out.

The commodities is nether tension of the recoil spring, so hold it tightly. Then pull it out of the receiver.

Hither nosotros meet the bolt, and above it we encounter the recoil spring with the recoil bound guide inside information technology.

(# 39: Recoil Leap, $v.29.)
(# xl: Recoil Leap Guide. $five.28.)

We're finished. The internal parts of my Model threescore showed very niggling wearable. I carefully cleaned the innards, using oil and a rag on the receiver and the commodities, and oil and Q-tips on the hammer mechanism.

Reassemble in reverse gild. The just halfway tricky part comes when reinstalling the bolt against the tension of the recoil bound. I swear: my Marlin Model lx is the easiest firearm to disassemble and reassemble I've always endemic.

It should also never crave the services of a gunsmith to repair. Counting the recoil spring and the five springs shown hither, there's a total of 6 springs within the rifle. Chances are a failure would be due to 1 of those springs breaking, probably one of these five. They are, from left to right:

• (# 16: Ejector Lifter Spring, $6.43.)
• (# 17: Extension Spring, $ii.73.)
• (# 43: Sear Bound, $2.73.)
• (# xv: Disconnector Bound, $two.73.)
• (# 28: Hammer Leap, $5.fourscore.)

This closeup shows some of the C-clips property pins in identify in the hammer mechanism. To change a spring, pop a C-clip off, push the pivot partially out, so replace the leap.

It's nearly also simple. Now I understand why Marlin has sold more than than eleven million of these .22 rifles.

NOTE: In some hammer mechanisms the pins are permanently fastened to one side.

Copyright 2005 by Junior Doughty

Source: http://www.castbullet.com/misc/m60.htm

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