#TFBArmorersBench

Welcome everyone to the TFB Armorer's Bench! This series focuses on home armorer and gunsmith activities to help you improve your skills and maintain your firearms. Today, we're diving into what's essentially part 3 of my STEN Mk2 build series. If you missed the earlier installments, part 1 covered cleaning Cosmoline with an ultrasonic cleaner, and part 2 tackled converting 20rd STEN magazines back to 32rd. This time, we're getting into the real meat of the build - removing the old receiver tube remnants from a parts kit.

Welcome everyone to the TFB Armorer's Bench! This series focuses on home armorer and gunsmith activities to help you improve your knowledge, enrich your skills, and maintain your firearms. Today, I'm tackling something that caught me off guard when I started building my STEN Mk2 - converting those Indian-modified 20rd magazines back to their original 32rd capacity. When I bought my parts kit and started shopping for magazines, I kept running into these 20rd mags and wondered what the heck was going on. Turns out there's an interesting history behind this conversion, and more importantly, it's completely reversible with basic tools.

Welcome everyone to the TFB Armorer's Bench! Since summer is in full swing here in Minnesota, I've been able to accumulate some spent brass and put some quality time with the RCBS Ultrasonic Case Cleaner-2, and I wanted to share my real-world findings on brass cleaning specifically. We've already covered this unit's first impressions and cosmoline cleaning capabilities, but today we're diving into what RCBS markets as its primary function - cleaning brass cases. The question I kept hearing was simple: does it actually work better than traditional tumbling methods? Is that the point? Let's find out.

Welcome everyone to the TFB Armorer's Bench! I recently spotted a Sten Mk2 kit for a decent price and couldn't resist picking it up. These kits used to be available for a couple hundred bucks, but lately they've shot up in price as they've become less and less common. People buy these because they're simple to bring back to life in semi-auto form with some new parts and a little know-how. It seemed like a fun project. Mine arrived soaked in thick cosmoline in a plastic bag, which turned out to be the perfect test case for the RCBS Ultrasonic Cleaner 2.

Welcome everyone to the TFB Armorer's Bench! I don't normally review run-of-the-mill cleaning kits, but Remington and I were already working with one another on ammo for reviews, so I thought the Remington Sportsman Cleaning Kit was worth a closer look. It's an affordable option that comes in a nice wood case, lacks solvents or lube, but besides that, it's great for the average Joe. I'm more of a rod man than a bore snake kind of guy anyway, so let's see how this traditional cleaning kit stacks up.

Welcome everyone to the TFB Armorer’s Bench! As mentioned in the little blurb below, this series will focus on a lot of home armorer and gunsmith activities. In this article, I finally picked up one of the trash pandas of the military surplus gun world, the Mosin Nagant. I always make sure to tear new used firearms apart and give it some proper maintenance before introducing them to the rest of the gun-safe family and while I was doing that I figured I could talk about all of the curious markings on my rifle. Luckily, I am one of those people who buys things because “someday I will have one” so I had a high-quality Mosin collectors book lying around. Let’s dive right into identifying Mosin Nagant markings!

Welcome everyone to the TFB Armorer’s Bench! As mentioned in the little blurb below, this series will focus on a lot of home armorer and gunsmith activities. I had a friend ask me about how to shoot a cheap black powder revolver he picked up. It’s an old ASM Colt 1851 Army reproduction. While I was showing him the basics I noticed that things were not quite right. He mentioned he was going to try to clean up the rust but when it was in my hands I could tell that we were dealing with a broken gun. Could it function? Yes. BUT not correctly. When at full cock the cylinder was free to rotate forward as it pleased. I knew the issue and told him what part to order up. Let’s dive into doing Maintenance on a Colt 1851!