Thread tools for SMLE??

[Enfield trader]

I found these 2 tools in a box of stuff I have and they were marked for SMLE. I don't thing there are for the SMLE.

The markes are on the bigger one.
LB&S 6 SA.P
then an electropenciled Broad Arrow

smaller one is marked:

S12 11.SAP and it also has an electropenciled Broad Arrow.

Any ideas?

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[Brian Dick]

They're thread cleaners for Enfield thread.

[Enfield trader]

Thanks for the info. So what Enfield do they work for?

[John Sukey (Deceased)]

Good question, since the No1 threads are an in-house thread known as the "enfield inch" and No4 threads are brit standard.

[Brian Dick]

I'll stick my neck out and guess that they're for the SMLE since I have some here just like them. I also have the little threaded plates for cleaning up the threads on screws. I've never encountered those tools in BSF threads for the No.4 but that doesn't mean they don't exist.

[Enfield trader]

Well I tried then on a cracked receiver I have laying around and they don't fit any hole on it, so not sure what they fit. But thanks for the info.

[Peter Laidler]

Webley Mk6 revolver. DON'T use them in your rifle

They were called 'chasers' . Some of the old Armourers still had such tools and gauges in their tool boxes when I was a beginner. One gave me his Mk6 plug bore gauge

Another useless bit of old time Armourers info. Next question..........

[smellie]

I have a very nice set of taps and dies which evidently developed legs and walked out of Long Branch.

Long Branch made ONLY the Number 4 Rifle, the Long Branch .22", the C No. 7 and a handful of experimental Number 5s: all based on the Number 4 platform.

My set of taps and dies are BA thread: metric standard 47-1/2-degree thread angle.

This would cause me to think that the Number 4 was BA thread and not BSF.

Am I still on the rails here or have I gone off-track?
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[Peter Laidler]

The No4 was BA threaded except for the stock bolt, barrel breeching up thread and the BSF front trigger guard screw. ON a technical point, the 47.5 degree British Association thread angle wasn't metric angled as such but just an angle that suited the BA thread pattern.