Hey all this is my first time posting on the forum, and it may be a white rhino kind of hunt for me at this point...but here goes.
I have a 1977 Glennfield Model 60 it also has the Marlin branded model 400A 4x32mm fixed power optic on it(which is pretty amazing in quality) that was inherited from my great uncle and aunt passing away and I just ended up with this rifle a couple years ago. At the time I got it, it took nearly 3 hours to clean all the gunk, dust, and grime out of her, and immediately I noticed the feed tube inner guts were missing. I got a new inner feed tube and recoil spring for the bolt delivered and everything was going great. It ran perfect and I was training my kids how to use a rifle, and basic gun saftey. It was eating bricks of 22lr before the pandemic...so many that the kids kept me broke because they just loved plinking with that old rifle.
So anyway after some time I noticed it started to have feeding issues every now and then. Then it became regularly, and now it's to the point it won't even chamber a round it just jams up. It's infuriating and back to being a single shot until I can figure out where to find a new feed throat.
Does anyone here have one that's in decent shape they'd be willing to sell me? Or know of somewhere that actually has one in stock I can get? Or am I going to have to find a new model 60 just to rip apart for the guts? Because I love this 22" barrel with 18 shots. If anyone has any leads to a kit or even the separate parts in stock I'd be forever grateful, because I've searched all over the darn place and have had no luck at all! The bad thing is before I learned that was an inherent problem with this rifle, at the time I ordered the inner feed tube and recoil spring, I actually had the opportunity to buy the kit then and didn't, because I was ignorant of the problem I now face...DOH!!!! Talk about faceplanting...any help would be greatly appreciated or if anyone has figured out how to get the old feed throat to function again I'd love that info. I figure since there's nothing to lose I'm going to take the old feed throat and see if I can use one of my forge punches to tap on that rivet and see if I can tighten it up again. I know the feed throat itself is cast aluminum so trust me I won't be actually putting it in my forge it'd be gone in seconds LoL
