SMLE Lattey sight

[bigduke6]

Robd,

That was the main reason I was watching it but at £777 would need to shift a few to cover the initial outlay, If I could find one the same price Stencollector picked his up for, I would be in business, But I guess as we speak someone is already on the case and probably punting them out with the original box.

A Very basic bit of kit to reproduce, anyone with a bench drill, seletion of files and a abra file should able to knock one up in no time, (the expensive bit is the lens).
If anyone has a drawing of the set please PM me.

[Roger Payne]

Robd, Big Duke et al., yes they'd be do-able, though not something I'd entertain (Come on you chaps out there!). In fact, I must confess that the Gallillean sights never really have floated my boat. It's probably heresy I know, but I had sets of Lattey, Gibbs & Barnett sights & sold all of them off some years ago. Any bright young things out there looking for a challenge?

ATB

[bigduke6]

More than willing to have a go, but need a drawing or one to re engineer, or if anyone can give me some basic size,s length width etc, I could knock one up to try.

On the subject of sights can anyone with a No1 Mk V post a pic of the rear sight, in both positions, (pic taken from the rear)

[Peter Laidler]

DRP and Big Duke, those Lattley sights would be an absoulte doddle to make. And with an optical perscription, so should the lenses too. But who can etch the grat pattern?

[Valleysniper]

Peter

Lattey sight would be the easiest to replicate as it had no graticule, just magnified the existing SMLE sights. The Gibbs had the Graticule on front lens and the Barnett and Martins had central etched? Black dot on front lens. I have an original Gibbs template for the front lens graticule, like a transfer. Have not worked out if it had special properties for acid etching of image or whether a metal shield was created from template leaving image open and then image sandblasted deeply into glass, If you could see the original graticule image close up it is actually quite rough and crude.

[Warren]

I have a contact (if she is still in business) who can make any etched graticle you want as long as you have a drawing. She closed down for a while due to health issues but I'll call and see if she is up to it. Any orders will have to be prepaid due to fiasco's with other lenses that people wanted and never paid for..sorry to be the old curmudgeon, but the last one cost me almost $1000.00 dollars

[Peter Laidler]

I did the Patt '18 oculars and the Scout Reg OG's Wheaty and sold them all in reasonable time. I took a page and advice out of another forumers book and after each one had sold, I put the price of the next set UP. After all, there's less of 'em now!

The trouble is that with getting 10 or so sets the price is high but who needs to be sat on 25 sets, when the price would come tumbling down.

Incidentally, it might interest budding lens makers, that I asked a lens maker to make some sets of lenses out of optical/spectacle grade plastic that could easily be coated. The convex side was very pronounced to cater for the single material they were made from instead of the usual flint and crown glass spec. They LOOKED good but wouldn't pass the 'fastness' and 'scatter' test on the optical bench and they scratched too easily too. I'm rambling on a bit now but.................

[tbonesmith]

On the subject of sights can anyone with a No1 Mk V post a pic of the rear sight, in both positions, (pic taken from the rear)

I'll put it up over the weekend in a new thread: "No1 mkv rear sight". BTW have you checked the Knowledge Library? see if this gets you there 1924 ShtLE No.1 MkV (# A2090) otherwise I'll post as I said.

[RJW NZ]

I'd love to see a shooters report about what its like to use these, and in our Knowledge Library too.