Tag: bl22

[FIXED] Browning BL-22 Bolt Fault

the inside of the action of a browning bl22 rifle.
The inside of the action of a browning bl22 rifle. The insert can be seen in the “roof” of the action.

It is the second time that I have to fix this issue where the trigger fails to release the hammer.

Symptom: The lever is not closing completely and then you cannot pull the trigger.
Cause: There is a small piece of steel in the “roof” of the action that has come loose and slides forward.
Fix: Fix the steel insert in its place, now with a much stronger adhesive. I used Loctite 648 this time.

Okay, first you need to make everything super clean and free of grease. Then you sand the slot with some fine sanding paper first as another cleaning step and then you use a coarser sanding paper to roughen up the surface.

looking inside the action housing of the browning, you can now see a thoroughly cleaned out slot where the insert goes into.
Look at how nice and clean that has become 🙂

Next, clean the insert thoroughly and use fine sanding paper first, then coarser paper.

this is the insert of the browning rifle that has come loose. when it does this, the lever will not close and you cannot pull the trigger.
The cleaned insert.

I chose for a stronger loctite this time, because I want to wait with more intrusive ways to affix this part. Have I noted that this part should never have come out in the first place? It’s not even noted in any parts list…

one can now see two green drops of loctite in the roof of the action housing.
Maybe this grade of Loctite is good enough. If not, then we go back to the drawing board.

There, all fitted together and now I will give it plenty time to dry and cure. Was briefly pondering about heating it up, but that’s a bit of a weird thing to do with glue as you can also often use heat to undo glued together parts.

and everything is now assembled again. the insert is now back in its place and will hopefully stay there
Will it stick?

I’ll go try it out tomorrow with some beefy ammo. I bought CCI EX Stingers that will yeet the nope with 1640 feet per second. If that breaks the glue bond, I’ll have to figure out another way to affix the insert.

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Fixing an issue with my Browning BL22 (Lever not closing)

After cleaning out my Browning BL22 and replacing some springs, I experienced an issue with the lever on a regular basis. I took it apart again, checked everything, only to have it re-appear again.

Then I noticed that a small plate in the roof of the rifle’s action housing had come loose. After some investigating, I deduced that this was a part that should not move around. Especially since I discovered that I could visibly see the plate when the issue occurred and by pushing it back, I could resume shooting. Another pointer was, that this particular part does not occur in any parts list.

The correct position of the plate
The plate itself, which does not appear in a parts list.

This is how it looks when the plate has moved then then causes a lockup:

So I decided to use some Loctite 242 to lock the plate in place and now time will have to tell whether this works or not.

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