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Albion made Enfield No.2 MK1**
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The E250 is the steel batch number of the steel used to make the cylinder. The barrel was uncertified medium carbon steel and frame was mild steel. Good old clunker and like most por certainly a LOT of Enfields in the US, it seems to be missing the landyard loop.
Look up ALBION trucks and busses to learn more about Albion in Gordonstoun near Glasgow who were sub contracted to make them. Alas, production was slow and soon they reverted to doing what they did best.............. Making trucks and busses.
Without doubt, from the phosphate and paint finish of it, it is an ex British Army revolver
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Thanks for the info, but now after doing a take down to clean out the crud I'm having an issue with the extractor issue not retracting when the action is fully open
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Also the foresight has been cropped. Should be readily available but make sure you replace it like for like as they come in a centre, left or right.
As for the extractor not returning................ I suggest you buy and read a little pink covered Skennerton book about these revolvers. You'll also learn a lot more too. These things were finely tuned and you need to........... anyway, even though I've done many hundreds of them, I couldn't even start to explain on a sheet of paper. But I think you'll find that if you flick it hard...., like you mean business, the extractor will retract at the end of the break cycle
I forgot to add but during the 60's, we used to file the top overhang of the left grip flat and polish it so that it was easier to get to and operate the barrel catch with your thumb
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Peter Laidler
I forgot to add but during the 60's, we used to file the top overhang of the left grip flat and polish it so that it was easier to get to and operate the barrel catch with your thumb
Well, $%^&!!! I always thought that was a Bubba thing! Passed on several just for that reason.
That is an odd front sight. It's short front to rear. Seems a bit tall, also.
Here's an example:
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...c0a00b84-1.jpg
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Well I seem to have fixed the ejector problem, by the looks of it from the years of use the the metal on the leading edge(porting that contacts the frame) of the ejector cam flowed out a bit so I took a hammer and tapped it back into place then polished the leading edge with a super fine grit stone. Now the tricky bit, finding an unmodified left front sight blade.
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You can probably make a new sight blade by hand. Have a look if you need a Left Right or central sight. A central means the works halved.
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I'm not so sure that your sight is a left handed offset Lucite as you'd see the distinct milled offset if it was L or R. Someone correct me, but I don't seem to remember the blades being marked L or R because the offset was quite clear because it was a .010" step - even to a blind man!
I'm not sure of how much the offset altered the MPI. Having shot/fired and 'zeroed' ( I use the term in its loosest sense, believe me.....) hundreds of them, then so long as they hit the fig-11 at 20yards that was OK. But the offset in relation to the MPI was minimal.
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I'm not so sure that your sight is a left handed offset Lucite as you'd see the distinct milled offset if it was L or R. Someone correct me, but I don't seem to remember the blades being marked L or R because the offset was quite clear because it was a .010" step - even to a blind man!
The picture doesn't show it but I'm pretty sure it is a left offset the sight is milled with a step that's about 0.005-0.01 the step being on the right hand side of the sight.
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You can probably make a new sight blade by hand. Have a look if you need a Left Right or central sight. A central means the works halved.
I was thinking about that but I don't have access to a lathe and a mill.
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Heres a picture of my 1943 Albion No 2 Mk 1**. Except for the paint they could be brothers .
Attachment 37987
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Replacement lanyard rings for the Enfield/Albion No.2 revolvers are damned hard to come by and when found are generally pretty high dollar as there are so many of these pistols extant missing this component and too many people looking for one. In lieu of the original assembly, the Smith and Wesson pattern lanyard ring as used with the WWII era handguns manufactured by that firm can be fitted with minmal modification. It's an inexpensive component and it looks okeh, too! Don't even try to fit the much oversize Webley Mark VI ring--not even close.
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Anyone with a lathe should be able to turn exact copies of the landyard loop shaft by the dozen, surely? The ring is just soft steel wire from the radius of the loop. If I was there I'd have hundreds of replicas turned off in a morning, phosphated in the afternoon and on that auction site in the evening!
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There £17.25 in the UK which I reckon is about £28. They don't ship to the US but if anyone needs one let me know.
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From what I've been told, the foresight was changed for a lighter bullet after the war. The issue was a 200 grain and the later adout 150. I had one that had been issued to the Edmonton City Police and the sight was like the OPs for their issue bullet at the time.
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We didn't alter the sight blade while it was in service with us.
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There £17.25 in the UK which I reckon is about £28. They don't ship to the US but if anyone needs one let me know.
I guess the £28 was a typo BP, and should be $28 ? as for postage we are stuck in the UK as Royal Mail will not handle anything related to firearm parts anymore, anything that is thought to be related will be destroyed, dont know about parcel force ?
Only today I found out that TNT will not insure a rifle on its value only on its weight, think its around £15 per kilo.
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Doh, yes i meant $28. I reckon it looks like a small machine part, I dont know if anyone would recognise it at Royal Mail (If they really care).
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Those landyard-loops are identical to tie-down rings used in loads of commercial undertakings. Is there a ban on tie-down rings too?
