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So I have sourced the sight and all mounting hardware for it. But am at a lose on how to mount it correctly. I am sure someone here can help.
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https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...14/01/1x-1.jpg
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...14/01/2x-1.jpg
It would appear that I am missing a scale on it.
Any thoughts on how to source one?
Jeff
Try http://www.fultonsofbisley for a range scale. They service and repair these sights and may have a spare. Good luck.
It installs using a long rear trigger guard screw and coil spring that replaces the standard SMLE safety spring.
If you look at the safety, you will see how it goes on. You remove the safety and place this against the side of the receiver and replace the parts that fit. The trigger guard screw has to be longer though I think...
Brian was typing as I was. He probably stocks the long screw.
I think I just ran out of them. I got them from EFD in England who is also out of them. He was scrounging last Fall to find me a couple for other clients They will probably have more made. Fultons probably has everything you need.
I already have all the mounting hardware.
Just this piece missing
As suggested try Fultons or look on fleabay for 'Parts'.
Email sent to Fultons already. Here is hoping.
If it's just the index plate, then it should be simplicity itself to make. A good sliding fit, two index lines scribed in place and an elongated slot for zeroing adjustment. Or certainly easy to make somethong to keep you on the road so to speak. Maybe someone can put up a photo of the actual plate
Yes it is just the index plate that I need.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Laidler
Well.............. go on someone............. quick photo!
But your problems dont quite end there Fremen. You'll also need the index plate screw and from my experience, the thread could be........, well....., anything really! If pre No4 Enfield threads were a complete engineering mystery, then P-H sight were something from another orbitory planet!
Fremen (Is that a "Dune" reference?): Just go to the "knowledge library" on this forum and on page 5 of the UK section look at the piece on AJ Parker and Parker Hale sights- a 93 photo collection. Shows your sight real well.
Ridolpho
I'm sorry...I missed that part. The little scale...and as Peter says, good luck with the screw.
Scale picture attached -a later PH5A where the role of the fixed and moving scales have been reversed - and marked for Mk7 ammo - check out the odd replacement scale screw - it happens!.
To fab a scale plate for your sight: the fixed "minute" scale would have used 5/100 of an inch graduations and five x 4/100 of an inch graduations on the missing siding scale to produce "vernier" increments of 1/100 of an inch. These should be easy to mark onto a fabricated plate with the right equipment The yard range scale zero is a little higher than the minute zero, so it is not a simple as swiping one line across for both scales - but it could be to get basic function....Even "spares or repairs" PH site lots are going for decent money these days...happy hunting!
I hope that it will be the same as the thread for the other parts already on the sight.
Believe me Fremen............ Don't hold your breath on that!
Hi Ridolpho,Quote:
Originally Posted by Ridolpho
Yes that is a dune reference. I have checked the KB and my sight is not listed as it is an early version of it.
Hi Breakdown.Quote:
Originally Posted by l1a1 breakdown
As you can see from the below picture mine is different. I have been told that it is an earlier version of the sight.
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...14/01/2x-1.jpg
Hi Freman - indeed a nice early sight! - The PH5A design seems dated around 1925. Your's is unusual as it needs a zero and vernier scale on the missing slide plate - this feature is typical of the "Twin Zero" designs that came later. Also your elevation slide is very long (high - needs to be depressed considerably for SMLE use) but is nicely marked "Parker Hale 5A" although with the few holes / features visible in the first photo - reminds me of the PH "Plus 5" also for the SMLE / CLLE. I would think the plate you seek has the zero lines and vernier 4/100 scale as described but may be longer (and significantly depressed) and have its fastening slots captive in the middle of the plate as per the "Plus 5"- which could identify a spare or help you create one - certainly not a "regular" PH5A scale = time to fab IMHO
I so far have only been able to find one other picture of the same sight.
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...standard-4.jpg
This should give you a good idea...the one in post 18 should be the right one though. These all have two screw holes...
That's the one Fremen. That's all you need. I'd have that little bxxxxxd knocked up and fitted in half an hour
Nice! The scale in post 18 also looks to use a bent edge that fits into the machined groove on the slide to prevent it rotating - there's that captive slot idea for the screw too. Make a jig, bend and mark a handful up....
What would you charge for shipped? (Ottawa Canada)Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Laidler
Answered this post on another forum with pic's
Good thought Fremen but nothing to work to or from or on! Sure your querie is completed now according to muffer.
Would you mind posting it in here as well to spread the knowledge around.
Multiple posting across forums is one of my pet hates, if you wish to replicate it here you have my permission.
If I needed a sensation of being caught in a time warp, maybe yes, but as a fair percentage of members here also post on other forums, some even getting irate at repeating constant answers, I find it more beneficial to keep my forums uncluttered, it helps me to keep track of who said what and when.........gives me the ability to sort the serious from the foolish so to speak:lol:
Multiple forum posting is one of my pet hates too Muffer. Not that I even go onto others - unless you are into Mini Coopers..... Especially when they use your own writings as their own. Sometimes when the questioner mentions that the subject has been aired on another forum, you feel that he's just after the answer that he wants, so keeps asking. A bit like a kid at primary school or my son when he was younger! In fact he's still at it now he's older especially when it comes to money. But alas, not when it comes to advice!
Some members of this forum - no names, no pack drill - have already commented that some 'multi forum' members with a modicum of knowledge on this forum are suddenly 'experts' on other forums, using whole sentences taken word for word from within these pages. I could go on but I'll stop..........