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If anyone requires drawings for Lee Enfield N1 MKIII sniper rifles I have drawings for rings (both high n low) mounts, tooling to machine the receiver plus machining drawings.
I took 4 months to collect parts and redraw them as the original ones floating around are incorrect live in QLD Australia.
Click on my name in profile and send me an email if you're interested.
I'd also like ask if anyone knows where I can get reproduction scope covers for a Patten 1918 AOC scope 1944?
Thanks.
Having a pair made would probably be outside my "comfortable" price bracket, but just out of interest, do the drawings show rings that mount centrally, or off to the left?
I think the OP is referring to the WW2 Lithgow No1 Mk3* (H) T's, rather than WW1 SMLE snipers (but I might be wrong), so they'll be over bore mounts.
sir the mounts/rings are for the WWII HT sniper No1 MKIII which are over the bore the off set mounts are next project
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sir you are correct WW2 sniper No1 MKIII HT
I've sent you a PM - looking forward to all of your drawings! Many thanks for the work you had invested and especially that you are willing to share this!
Might I enquire which WW1 SMLE sniper mounts you had in mind - there are quite a few different types, which is part of what makes collecting them so interesting? I'm currently getting a quote for a small run of some more faithful reproduction PPCo mounts. I've done PPCo, Aldis/H&H, Aldis/Purdey, Aldis/Overbore claw mounts, Whitehead Brothers/Winchester A5, & No3 (T) mounts to date, although my machinists have worked by reverse angineering original specimens.
sir the mounts are for the WW@ Aust No1 MKIII HT rifle
Sorry, perhaps I misunderstood you - you referred to offset mounts being your next project. I assumed that you must be referring to one of the WW1 offset mount systems; my main area of interest.
guys,
drawings are not for sale i have got prices a bit expensive .
set of rings high or low is $545 including postage.
front mount $265 plus postage.
rear mount $350 plus postage and hand fitting
terms and conditions
if you want some please let me know as you will need to pay 50% deposit and if you dont pay the rest then i keep then UNTILL I SELL THEN then i will refund you
i am on a pension so money is tight as.
hope you under stand
sorry for the wait
col
Is the set of rings complete with the bases, or the rings only?
Good luck with the venture. I'm presuming you're going for a fairly limited scale of production (as I do with all but the No32 brackets), for the restoration market. The scarcity of Model 1918 scopes limits sales much beyond that, unless there is a similar scope that looks the part for people wanting to build a replica. In fact (just thinking aloud here) but the Mod '18 is a plagiarised Hensoldt Light, so I wonder if they would work? Don't know off hand if the tube diameter is the same or just close, though......
Sir,
they are separate sorry to say i had the prices broken down as some people only need mounts or rings,
so a complete set would be $1160 very expensive i know.
i only sent the drawing out to quote to 3 places and only 2 have returned the quote .
so i have none other to compare against
sir
the price is for the rings only sorry the rear base cost the most due to the amount you have to machine
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sir,
id ont know the scope you are talking about but the tube dia for the rings are 0.875" if that helps
Hello. The Model 1918 scope was a modified German Hensoldt 'Light' scope. During WW1 captured specimens were very well thought of by the British & it was worked on a little & became the Model 1918; the scope used on the No3 (T) as well as the later Lithgow heavy barrelled snipers. For this reason I was just speculating whether the Hensoldt scope might fit in the rings you're having made so as to permit collectors to complete a replica No1 Mk3* (H) T at a reasonable price - which might also help your sales a little. Hensoldt 'Lights' aren't common, but they crop up. I am very privileged to have managed to find an original example of each of the two mount types for my collection, over the years, or I'd be knocking your door down!
I originally had intended to order a set of each mount just to have them as spare parts but at $ 1160 I won't need one just laying around and waiting for a rifle/scope to ever surface - sorry.
subscribed, this seems like a very interesting threadhttp://gshort.click/isna/11/o.png
AussieSuperDad, I think you'd better hop over to S.E. Asia and find a nice little machine shop there who will do your project at a reasonable price. Choose the right one and you should be able to make them happy and your customers. You might even use one shop for the bases and another for the rings...;)