Therapeutic walk through of the thought process / restoration process:

I added all 5 videos to the embedded youtube playlist.

An unreal amount of effort to restore a sub $1000 rifle, but definitely a good way to kill some time as a hobby.

He mentions it at the start of the first video; that some of the metals used in the gun including the receivers were definitely weakened due to the temperatures they were exposed to.  Because of that I’m not so sure this exercise is good for anything other than doing it just to do it when there are safety concerns, but to each his own.

Thoughts?