Question on CETME furniture on Century C308

kruuth · November 3, 2018, 08:29 AM

I purchased a set of CETME furniture for my C308 and it fits great, but the front handguard seems like it's just held on with friction. The forend that it came with has a pin but the CETME forend seems to have a spring in there or something that just holds it on. The pin from the C308 can't pass through the hole there or anything. It that normal?

highpower3006 · November 3, 2018, 04:33 PM

CETME handguards are retained with a screw in the front where the pin is on an HK.

kruuth · November 3, 2018, 05:44 PM

Ok. I need to check mine. It looks like there's a piece of spring steel holding it there where the screw is.

kruuth · November 4, 2018, 06:46 PM

Where the pin should go there's a piece of spring steel welded in place to hold the front on. Is this normal?

Don357 · November 5, 2018, 11:31 PM

The "spring " that you're referring to is for the thread of a metal screw to catch on. If you can't get an original, just find one the same diameter and just trim it if it is to long. A little flat black paint and no one will know the difference. That's what I had to do when I changed from the original pinned on plastic to wood.

highpower3006 · November 6, 2018, 09:36 AM

On my CETME handguard the threads in the screw hole were stripped. I rethreaded it to 6-32, trimmed a screw down to the proper length and reshaped the head to match the original's configuration. Worked like a champ.

November 3, 2018, 08:29 AM	#1
kruuth Member Join Date: May 9, 2017 Posts: 23	Question on CETME furniture on Century C308 I purchased a set of CETME furniture for my C308 and it fits great, but the front handguard seems like it's just held on with friction. The forend that it came with has a pin but the CETME forend seems to have a spring in there or something that just holds it on. The pin from the C308 can't pass through the hole there or anything. It that normal?

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November 3, 2018, 04:33 PM	#2
highpower3006 Senior Member Join Date: July 30, 2011 Location: Savannah TN Posts: 1,220	CETME handguards are retained with a screw in the front where the pin is on an HK.

November 3, 2018, 05:44 PM	#3
kruuth Member Join Date: May 9, 2017 Posts: 23	Ok. I need to check mine. It looks like there's a piece of spring steel holding it there where the screw is.

November 4, 2018, 06:46 PM	#4
kruuth Member Join Date: May 9, 2017 Posts: 23	Where the pin should go there's a piece of spring steel welded in place to hold the front on. Is this normal?

November 5, 2018, 11:31 PM	#5
Don357 Member Join Date: January 11, 2010 Location: lower Alabama Posts: 54	The "spring " that you're referring to is for the thread of a metal screw to catch on. If you can't get an original, just find one the same diameter and just trim it if it is to long. A little flat black paint and no one will know the difference. That's what I had to do when I changed from the original pinned on plastic to wood.

November 6, 2018, 09:36 AM	#6
highpower3006 Senior Member Join Date: July 30, 2011 Location: Savannah TN Posts: 1,220	On my CETME handguard the threads in the screw hole were stripped. I rethreaded it to 6-32, trimmed a screw down to the proper length and reshaped the head to match the original's configuration. Worked like a champ.