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Gents,

Apologies for resurrecting an 11 year old thread, (that i'd contributed to)

I've acquired another Mk111 prismatic compass in need of repair. On disassembly, I've found that the pivot pin...

Good better best
Never let it rest
'Till your good is better
And your better - best

My Grandfather had a Furphy on his property when I was a kid, I never forgot the little rhyme

I think Bindi is the only one who has looked at whats IN the aiming rest ;)

Good stuff, consider me subscribed :)

I had finished it Claven, but hadn't reassembled it as yet, as other projects had taken my attention.

So tonight, after seeing your post, i thought, great, i'll put it all back together & take...

No ! Acetone is way too strong for what you were wanting to do, good for stripping quickly, but not for blending.........denatured alcohol is milder & patience is the key.

Google "french polishing...

I have disassembled my MkIII, pictured earlier, for cleanup & repair, a fairly simple job so far, hovever, I need to remove the glass in order to reseat the dial, which had jumped off its pin at some...

Here you are Claven, this one belonged to my grandfather, who bought it home from New Guinea, up until maybe 10 or 15 years ago it was fairly easy to read, although it had a bubble inside, now it...

Just playing around with the macro function today & took a few decent ones, I think a tripod would be a good investment though

Son, there is something in there you may recognise :thup:

19005 -...

I don't think anyone with any knowledge of firearms could mistake holes that size for a gas vent.

I'm sorry you got hurt Old Joe, but how did you not see that ?

Good Stuff , do you know why it was on the river ?
Does it run regularly as a museum ship or was it just a once in a while thing ?

A nice piece of history :thup:

Edit: The USS LST Ship...

So from reading the answers to my original post, I would think that such a weapon did exist in small numbers, no doubt modified in the field.

Why you just wouldn't use an issued handgun, as Peter...

I stand corrected Ed, ....I now know why I have never been able to find "Beneath the planet of the Apes" at the video library :)

Just watched "Below Hill 60", about the 1st Australian Tunneling Company, during the Battle of Messines.
Briefly shown a few times was one of these: 15237 used for fighting in the tunnels.

I've...

Thanks Gents, a Chinese wall gun is what it is, google found me the same one in a museum in New Zealand.

Wall gun - Collections Online - Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa


Thanks again...

Hello all,

First post in this section & I am looking for a little information on an unidentified rifle.

A mate has inherited what has been described to him as a "Chinese 3 man gun", the...

I still love that rifle stand Son :thup:, very inventive use this time :)

Dan,

I had the same problem with my No4 Mk1,

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By all means try flat based projectiles & you may get a good result, but my advice is, bite the bullet (!) and rebarrel it.
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Indeed, you can, I climbed the hills at Anzac cove about 25 yrs ago & saw many things on the surface & also found a lot of objects lightly covered, I left everything as it was & it is something I...

Great Job, I enjoyed seeing it from start to finish, well done :thup:

Lovely wood on that rifle gunner, very nice :thup:

Very nice, well done :thup: