M69 bolt disassembly

[lew]

How do you take this thing apart?!

The pictures on surplusrifle.com aren't very helpful. I mistakenly turned the safety 90 degrees to the left when I took the bolt out and now I can't turn it back. Anyone have any decent pictures of the bolt components? That would make it easier to figure out what needs to go where.

Other than that, this is one cool little rifle. The one I picked up has a beautiful bore, and nothing more than a couple small scratches on the stock finish. Came with the cleaning kit, too. 1983 on the barrel.

[Artful]

you mean these instructions?
http://www.surplusrifle.com/romanian1969/index.asp

there's also

Paul Liska's Romanian M69 owner's guide:

http://www.arnoldline.com/Paul/RomanianM69.html

I didn't buy a copy...but have been meaning to...

http://www.rimfirecentral.com/forums...d.php?t=155427

I finally got up the nerve to strip down the bolts of both of my Romys. Not too bad on dis-assembly, but that spring and retainer is a real chore going back together. After learning a couple of new words, I discovered that a 3/16" nutdriver can be used to push the spring and retainer into the bolt body and then use the punch to hold it while you assemble the safety onto the bolt.
Although I didn't try it, I'm guessing that a 3/16' socket would work as well.
For whatever it's worth, on one of mine, just honing and cleaning got from 5lbs,10oz to 4lbs,2oz. The other appears to have alot less wear (the bolt looks brand new) and it went from 4lbs, 8oz to 2lbs,1 oz with no spring tension, so I tweaked the spring to 2lbs, 8oz just to keep the trigger from flopping around and allowing the the sear to engage the bolt when attempting to close the bolt. I would have done the drill and re-pin, but I couldn't get any numbered drills here in town--maybe I can find some in 'the city' next week. It's too cold and windy to go shooting anyway.
Steve

[lew]

Sweet. I'll have to wait until I get back home. Got no vise here.