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Plainfield carbines
bigcountry_75214
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Are the parts on these carbines interchangable with the "original 10" carbines? Are they decent guns or junk? Thanks as always, B.C..
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Plainfield was the first to manufacture and sell "civilian" M1 Carbines, and for the first 4 or 5 years all of the Plainfields were made up entirely from surplus GI parts. As the supply of surplus parts parts dried up, they started manufacturing their own parts to GI specs.
Generally speaking, "Plainfields" are the closest "civilian" Carbine you can get to the military version.
In the 1970's, Iver Johnson bought out Plainfield and their Carbines contain quite a bit of surplus GI parts.
Later on quite a few other manufacturers "got into the act" making them....
Plainfields, IJs, and possibly Universals should all interchange with any GI spec. parts.....others may be a mixed bag.