Bore does look ok - if it's a shooter, then I'm more than happy!
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Bore does look ok - if it's a shooter, then I'm more than happy!
This is the only one so far...
https://www.milsurps.com/images/imported/2020/05/No45jpgraw1-1.jpg
Yes - I think you're right and it's a converted No4 (The person that this came from has had it for a number of years, so not that one though.) It's quite nicely done - it has the correct bolt,...
Just picked up a No5 with the serial number PF 02680 (not sure if the leading character is a 0 or O.) It also has the SA broad arrow in U stamp.
Any idea of its age?
ETA - Matching numbers on...
Probably inch (just because it's easier to get hold of one!) It will be a shorter barrel - not fixed a length in mind yet - just what looks 'right'!
All painted..
https://www.milsurps.com/images/imported/2020/05/FAL20Painted2020Copyjpgraw1-1.jpg
and back together...
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This is the current state of the Mk2 Franken-FAL!
https://www.milsurps.com/images/imported/2020/05/FAL20Bitsjpgraw1-1.jpg
Did you ever find a drawing? I'm also looking for one...
I'll try and find some pictures of the old one....
I have a new L1A1 receiver, an Imbel Para lower half and a L12A1 bolt assembly for the new build. I need to find a blueprint for an L1A1 barrel...
Just found this thread... It was my Franken-FAL. (Are you sure you didn't see it on FALFiles?)
The unwanted but equally entertaining burst firing was cured by cutting the chamber (& hence rim...
Bit of a bump!
I have a 1930 frame/1929 barrel serial number 429 which would extend your 1930 number range.
I suspect that the answer is 'quite a lot' as they rarely seem to come up for sale...
Anyone have drawings for the duckbill & three prong flash hiders? Proving to be quite tricky to get the retro ones in the UK, so figure making my own could be the way forward if I can get the...
There's a bench the same as that in a village near Crawley - It's a nice addition to the village green...
No problem at all - at one time I had piles of different catalogues, but kept this one as it was from Sterling...
I always found the tippex amendments and the fact that the 'silver plated' SMG was...
I believe the existing laws have provision for selling a 'defectively deactivated' gun (ie anything not an EU spec) outside of the EU. After Brexit, we will be outside the EU!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMuUpI8ro_g
Saw this today - the chap firing is one of my schoolfriends grandad - Major Robert Turp. At the end of the war he was tasked with travelling round...
What was the basis for taking it? The L98 would never have been a S5 firearm.
Don't know about you, but every time I look at mine I think it's amazing that I've got such an early one (and it survived all these years!) out of the 270ish thousand they made!
Has the frame got any signs of a repair inside it (behind where the serial should be)?
Is it a scrapped/re-welded (over the serial) frame mated to a orphaned slide & barrel? The number on the...
Its a 1929/1930 mix - the frame is 1930 and barrel is 1929!
Not relevant to the OP, but I have no 429 (all matching) - sadly deactivated though...
Everything was covered in a layer of copper grease to stop the carbon sticking to the baffles/rods - it did work, but its a messy job!
Yes - 45 ACP.
After shooting it the other day I had a bit of correspondence with the gunsmith at Shandwick re cleaning it. (As in how often & how!)
The answer was after every shoot and carefully!
They sent...