they were about £35 off the bay
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they were about £35 off the bay
I did notice on another of my "T" Stocks what may maybe a side pin but it was only just about visible because it doesn't have a head and is flush with the side of the plate. Having a side pin does weaken the rear part of the Key resulting in a fracture in this example and possibly not all manufacturers of "T" stocks used a side pin.
Seeing a through pin to retain the stop button does illustrate the point made by Lines, the designers of the skeleton type butt. 5 parts for the standardised production 'T' butt (or 6 parts if they do indeed incorporate the side pin*) against 2 flat parts for their skeleton butt. The 1" flat off-the-shelf material butt frame was rolled to a curvature during the forming process.
While there's no doubt there was a cross pin, this wasn't mentioned in the spec for the change to the 'Lines' butt. It just mentioned 5 welded parts versus 2 parts and 1 weld. And consider that the butt had already been simplified to arrive at the 'T' butt! Makes you wonder if real war ever arrived again, whether the nation would have the men with the mechanical genius like this available.
I have a Lines Bros "T" stock which looks like it could have a flush side pin but I'm not 100% sure one way or the other. I suspect that some do and some don't. The weld holding the back of the pin wasn't very good/strong because it was fairly easy to remove the stub once the side pin had been removed. I would have thought a better method would have been to make the pin on the rear of the key slightly longer and have a small countersink of the hole in which the key fits into on the other side of the plate to the key. During assembly rivet the pin of the key into the countersunk hole in the plate and then it would also be welded with the other parts of the "T" stock during manufacture.