Thread: Replacing no longer available rifle parts..

Originally Posted by Finnwolf

Tried the super glue idea but it did not hold when the mag got filled. I suspect oil had impregnated the plastic at the split hence the glue not holding.

Footnote: I found on the net a review of rifle identical to mine but was labeled as a JW14, on my rifle the area where the ‘JW10A’ is stamped had been ground off prior to the 10A being stamped.

Now if my failing memory banks are in any way still functional - that model Norinco was a knock off of a Stirling from the Phillipines, which was in itself a knock off of one of the Eastern European .22's - maybe an early BRNO/CZ or somesuch?

There is a steel-bodied mag you can get that does fit the Norinco mag well, I'm trying to recall what needed to be tweaked and it might have been the top of the mag out a little and the feed lips in a twitch as the plastic mag body was a bit chunkier everywhere apart from the front. The piss off with those, was that the mags work ok with the split front when they are in the gun you just can't load the damn things. I think with mine, I tried a plastic weld on the front first with a steel rod behind it to keep the shape. That split again after a few weeks, but with the new melted plastic in there the rapidfix powder stuck nicely.