Australian Coachwood fore ends without copper recoil blocks?

[Peter Laidler]

Sons thread and photos do show the WIDER copper plates but this amply illutsrates a couple of points that I couldn't mention because I don't have a fore-end handy. The wider plates ARE wider but is that simply because if they weren't wide, you'd never(? or hardly without totally weakening) get a wood screw countersunk head into the plate! And no matter how you put it, the rearward loading in that situation goes straight down through and into the wood where the drawers sit, tilting the copper block as it does so.

I had a funny feeling that this would run as soon as I put pen to paper.

Here's another question chaps........ How do you repair a copper blocked fore-end when there's end float? Bin it and get a new one, put thicker copper blocks in place and plug and re-screw the screw hole or just wood patch in the usual manner observed amongst Armourers