Reassembling the Ruger
Guns ·Saturday November 6, 2010 @ 20:54 EDT (link)
I finally got around to finishing cleaning the Ruger 10/22; it had been sitting on the other couch disassembled, waiting for my brass hammer and punch set to arrive, but they arrived a few weeks ago and that excuse no longer worked. While Honey rested after getting back from watching Disney on Ice with her friend, I finished cleaning the Ruger—took out the bolt since I hadn't yet, and cleaned the spring too. This page and this video were helpful.
A few tricky points: getting the bolt back in (pushing the spring back by levering a screwdriver and then holding the cocking handle left the part that needed to line up with the bolt canted a little, so getting the bolt to seat properly proved tricky. After that it was mostly easy—the trigger assembly attachment pins were nowhere near as easy to put in as the video showed (he just pushed them in; I had to use my brass hammer). A pin near the trigger—one I hadn't touched—had worked its way out a little and stopped the assembly from fitting into the stock, but a few whacks from the brass hammer fixed that too (when all you have is a hammer… fortunately I had plenty of other tools).
