AndyQuote:
Originally Posted by OxfordAndy
My buttplate is actually aluminium, polished.
My parts list only lists one part number, but doesn't state material, or if there were substitutions.....
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AndyQuote:
Originally Posted by OxfordAndy
My buttplate is actually aluminium, polished.
My parts list only lists one part number, but doesn't state material, or if there were substitutions.....
L1A1 Brass buttplates............. I don't remember them. They were all LM25 (or was it LM28/2) cast aluminium alloy made by Birmaloy and Qualcast in Birmingham. But not brass................
Qualcast.....Christ, i've got bits of lawn mower on my SLR.......:yikes: :yikes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Laidler
David/Peter - my mistake. It looks like brass in the pics I have. Checked with the seller and it is alloy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Laidler
No worries :)Quote:
Originally Posted by OxfordAndy
I never ever saw any Brass Buttplates, & to my Knowlege none were ever issued! There WERE, however. Two variants of buttplate in Brit/commonwealth Service. First pattern had a 'Trap' that the used could open & store the Oil bottle, & pullthrough & combined weight inside the Butt. The combi-Tool, debris brush & bronze chamber brush had to carried in personal equipment or in the smock somewhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Laidler
The Second Pattern, was blank with NO provision for a trap to allow access to store anything! If I remember correctly, there was an E.M.E.R mod that entailed the gluing shut of Buttplate Traps when the stock of trap springs ran out. As the cleaning kit was for a LONG time issued in a Tin, & later a plastic container. this really rendered the old 'store inside the Butt' method, obsolete!
When later on the Full Plastic Black Furniture came into Service. There was NO provision right from the start for the user to be able to store anything inside Butts whatsoever.
Canadians used Steel Butt Plates, fitted to the butt in the same way FAL butt plates were fitted by a central screw, screwed into the return spring tube nut.
Australia had just the one aluminium alloy Butt plate with trap
British had the two Alloy butt plates at tank hunter said. Early with a trap and the later without the trap.
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...ttPlates-1.jpg
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...ttPlates-1.jpg
Order placed. Gavin currently quoting two weeks on delivery.
Nice one Andy, will be the longest 2 weeks of your life..Quote:
Originally Posted by OxfordAndy
Well done :thup:Quote:
Originally Posted by OxfordAndy
Pfft.....I had to wait SEVEN MONTHS ;) :yikes:Quote:
Originally Posted by tailz