Ah ok, Ive been wondering whether a sort of alcohol lamp soot covering might work, but dont have one.
Didnt know you could substitute like that or I would have done it already, thank you very very...
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Ah ok, Ive been wondering whether a sort of alcohol lamp soot covering might work, but dont have one.
Didnt know you could substitute like that or I would have done it already, thank you very very...
My thoughts exactly but I cannot find precisely where it is touching because it is a finnicky spot anyway. Ive really hit it with a mallet to try and budge it or swage the wood at least a little so i...
Well I've finally got the new recoil block halfway to sorted but I have hit issues and possibly made mistakes here.
The photos do not really show what I am trying to show but essentially the...
The problem with getting NOS guards and just putting them on as is is that this stock has been sanded and abused quite a lot, so fancy new guards will look ridiculous to say the least, but I am...
Been a while since I've been on here but I suppose wisdom is needed at all times. Hope everyone is well.
So this here is a Remington P14 I picked up some time ago and have been chipping away at,...
One of my No4's does almost the same thing with some HPBT loads I have for a ross rifle, but with Spitzers no worries at all. Enfields are funny.
5thBatt has it all covered there. A #4 Mag case and #3 follower are the right combo.
painter, you speak my mind entirely, to the dot even. Glad someone has tried it before me.
Sunray, you tell me that but I have half a dozen stocks that have gone from dark, grimy, and dry to quite...
Thanks mate, that is pretty much all the answers I was after. Cheers.
Yeah I never touch boiled linseed with my rifles anymore, but lucky for us in aus there is a company that makes and sells RLO in decently large bottles. Hopefully this might save me some time. I'll...
Pretty much my thoughts exactly Cinders. I have a few sporter stocks I try all my repairs on before working on my nice rifles so I will use them first, but still figured it was worth asking.
G'day there, just an idea I had a little while ago to get linseed back into really dried up old stocks.
I was thinking that rather than applying 56 coatings of Linseed, letting it sit, then wiping...
G'day there, I have a rifle I am restoring at the moment which had a lot of cracks in the fore-end (Tang crack, behind the mag, etc), but I have repaired all of that as good as I can.
One which I...
That rifle has seen some hard days. Looks like it needs some Linseeding :). Also I am quite jealous honestly.
Some of us don't have lathes nor the know-how to use them? If it was not so much of a kerfuffle then I would not have had to get mine from Scotland and someone else from here would have offered a...
Hey it looks like a genuinely rebarrelled 'H' SMLE. I see plenty with Heavy barrels but they all lack the 'H' stamp on the very front of the butt-stock like this one. I see a big old date stamp or...
I believe I have seen pictures of only one No4 which looked better, and it too was an NZ rifle. Definitely about as good as they come. Now its your job to keep her that way haha.
I am a tad late to this party but I must ask what it looked like before you set about repairing it?
Hey mate, I had a bit of a dilemma with this earlier in the year and ended getting them custom from Border Ballistics Technology (BBT) in Scotland. I am very happy to have bought them and will...
Well there you go, that is quite interesting. Was it common practice to replace your worn charger bridges in refurbishments and so on?
Even so, thank you very much for the insight as this is...
Thanks anyway Cinders, its just another one to add to the every growing pile of things they did with these rifles we can't yet explain.
Peter it seems I have a special one then! Not some super...
Cinders, you have better eyes than me I did not even see that. There are marks like that all over the action and the various parts, reminds me of my old SMLE's as compared to my Long Branch, and on...
Cinders I noticed that too, and the upside down "D" in a circle beside it. Any ideas?
Omark, the varnish is off now. It was on pretty thick and did not look like it was applied the best. Stock was...
Thanks for clarifying mate. The packing definitely does not have the finesse to it as the centre bedding.
If that stamp is to do with export to the US then how did it get over here? haha.
Also...
I am not a massive fan of making a post sheerly since I got a new Enfield, but this is one fills a few empty spots in my collection.
At first this rifle and a Savage MKI* stood out at a gunshop to...