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As will I.

there is a bolt and carrier for sale on the falfiles marketplace

Pm sent.

There are a lot of M96s out there with the first type gas piston/op-rod . Robinson offered up a fix for this but most were never converted as Robinson wanted to charge for the fix. With Robinson not supporting the M96, I thought I post a fix from back then.The type 1 piston was held onto the op-rod with a roll pin that would work it's way out until it hit the inside of the gas tube causing a wear line in the tube. If left long enough it caused stoppages. I put a center punch in both sides of the roll pin and hit one side while supporting the other center punch there by spreading the ends of the roll pin. This kept the roll pin centered. When replacing the roll pin I just squeezed the end with pliers and pushed it out.

Well, after talking to the welder who wanted the rust blasted before he welded the bipod as well as saying that the weld may not park, I blasted and parked the bipod yesterday. After welding I may have to duracoat it.

Here's the Stoner 63 bipod on the top feed. Thanks to Mongo for selling me this. Already to start blasting it so I can get it to the tig welder for the little bit of welding it needs. Going to repark it after the welding.

I bought the Stoner 63 bipod off Mongo. He's wasn't kidding about the price being cheap( I'd have paid twice what he wanted for it) bipod itself isn't bad at all. Real easy fix, already got a buddy that's going to tig weld it for me. Thanks to Mongo for making this available to me. A+++++++++++

And the demilled carrying handles

Here's a picture of the slot in the stoner barrel. The slot is .435 long and .150 deep. It is .6525 from the edge of the larger portion of the barrel to the center of the slot.

2 RA receivered Recons sold just recently on Gunbroker for $1755.00 and $1895.00. The $1895.00 one was NIB.

Agreed, great movie.

Sent you a PM Sure miss your old Stoner web page.

The last month or so a seller on Gunbroker has been selling demilled Stoner 63 parts. I won 2 of the demilled barrel carrying handles he was selling. The only part(s) demilled is the wooden handle and half the 5/16 rod inside it. The 2nd one I won still has a 8 inch piece of Stoner 63 heavy barrel in it. The Robinson M96 top feed(Bren gun) barrel is the exact same diameter as the stoner barrel. So the Stoner 63 carrying handle will fit perfect on the top feed barrel. All I need to do is make new wooden handles and weld a 2 inch piece of rod on that's inside the wood handle as well as mill a small 1/32 inch half moon slot into the top of the barrel just in front of the step down(this keeps the carrying handle bracket from turning on the barrel). I bought 2 handles because I bought a extra top feed barrel from Robinson back when I bought my top feed kit. So I guess more than just the buttstock from a Stoner will fit on a M96. Now I just need a Stoner 63 bipod.

Hi, I was on the old forum, at first as "gn", then as "out there". Still have my Recon and top feed(Bren) M96s. Haven't shot them in years due to lack of parts and support from Robinson. Still can't bring myself to sell them though. Really love the top feed. I should add that I only had the bolt tail upgrade done to the top feed, but not to the Recon. I didn't have the trigger upgrade done on either.