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Posted: 8/7/2008 3:22:39 PM EDT
I discovered this crack in my bolt, how concerned should I be? Should I replace it? Am I risking a possible Kaboom? 
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It's a hairline crack, your fingernail snags on it FROM ONE SIDE ONLY, I'm almost positive it wasn't there before, the rifle is only about 6 months old, it's a Yugo underfolder from Century International. |
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I just checked two of my bolts and they don't look like yours. With that said this is what I see: If you run your fingernail in the direction of the black arrow, it snags. if you run it along the red arrow it does not snag. the portion circled in red appears to be excess material (as compared to my two bolts) and should have been machined to be flush with the surface that the black arrowhead is drawn on. hope that makes sense. 
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| As I see it you have 2 options; 1) Replace the bolt if you can't live with it, I don't think that area sees an undue amount of stress to cause cracking. 2) Take some small jewelers files and try to work the area down to the surrounding metal. Or if you're sure of your skill with a dremel use that and carefully try and smooth it down to the surrounding metal, if this works and it disappears it was a small machining defect and you aren't out a dime, if it doesn't then you will be no worse off than you were to begin with except that after working with it you will know for SURE it's cracked. Hope this helps. |
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