I have an original Remington Model 51 magazine that I would like to thoroughly clean and possibly re-blue. The bottom plate seems to have been "permanently" installed with two through pins/rivets.
Am I missing something else that would allow me to open up this mag and remove the spring/follower? I can always drill out the rivets and replace with shop-made rivets or pins, but hope to avoid this. I've tried tilting the follower to the extreme forward and back and it doesn't want to come out that way either.
Am I missing something else that would allow me to open up this mag and remove the spring/follower? I can always drill out the rivets and replace with shop-made rivets or pins, but hope to avoid this. I've tried tilting the follower to the extreme forward and back and it doesn't want to come out that way either.