Reproduction Scope Tins?

[Roger Payne]

He's at many of the big euro shows & comes across to Beltring every year. His round-ended tins are quite good but when I bought a few off him some years ago the internal fixings were wrong & we had new replacements made. Mind you, he's probably fixed this by now. He was also into having spurious marks stamped onto the lids, although I advised him to leave them blank for obvious reasons. On one occasion when I saw him in France he saw an original British wire breaker I'd just acquired & was jumping up & down like a frog on fire trying to get it off me so he could get it copied!
I believe his wife is Vietnamese & he gets a lot of the work done out there, although his brackets are made in Eastern Europe, I think, unlike mine or the Sarco variants.....
More useless information.........!
ATB

[grant580]

I have one of the French fellow's repro scope tin boxes and although it's OK the paint job on it is crap and the interior spot welds all came loose on the fittings, not worth the money he is charging in my opinion.

[Roger Payne]

Grant,
I bought about ten off him some years ago & the price was sufficiently low that even with vectoring in the cost of replacement internals it was still worth while. I have kept a couple of the modified examples for myself. Having said that I don't know how much he asks for them these days............I know he sells his No32 brackets for more than I ask for mine.

ATB

[Warren]

The big difference Roger, is that your brackets are called remakes or reproductions while his are "purported" to be originals...
And, I might add, your brackets are of much better quality.

[Peter Laidler]

And the UK Military have used your brackets too so they've obviously passed the originality test - which none of the others have..................

[Roger Payne]

Merci beaucoup mes amis!

ATB
P.S.Warren, I'll get your package wrapped ready to post on to you over this coming weekend.

[grant580]

Roger:
These repro scope tin boxes, are they exactly the same size as the originals? the reason I ask is because when I go to put my repro scope tin box in one of my reproduction transit boxes the wooden "button" as they call it in the blueprints used to hold the scope tins down has to be modified and shortened to fit properly even though I build it and install it exactly like the blueprint asks for. Any help would be greatly apprecitated. By the way, the repro scope tins on the French fellow's sight are 195 euros. and come with a repro sight adjuster tool for the mk 1 and 2's.

[read6737]

AAS Sniper 98s boxes do not come with the adjusting tool.

Vendue Neu in the discription means sold naked .
i,e only the box no sight adjusting tool.

I bought one of his boxes early last year.
It was in new condition and my scopes fit tightly in the mount.
The lid is a perfect fit,
There is a number stamped on the lid, no other markings,
and it has the loops for a strap.
I am happy with my purchase.

He also now sells a MK2 tin for 135 euro.

[Peter Laidler]

In real life Grant580, most wartime produced things in small arms need slight fitting or adjustment - that's why Armourers exist. Just a few thou here or there was our stock in trade. But that everything was a direct fit.........., the fit you ask about

You could ask the same when you were fitting the fore-end to your rifle.

[Roger Payne]

Grant,
I've not dropped any calipers over the repro tins but to my rather poor Mk1 eyeball the actual tin stampings look very good & very close to the originals. I have always felt it was the interiors that let him down; when he first started doing them we couldn't even get a bracket to fit into some of them; distances apart of the spigots & the thread types being all wrong. However, I assume these defects have long since been corrected. I had not heard about the Mk2 (?) tins - I wonder if these are actually the square tins or the real canvas Mk2 case? I will no doubt see him at the Bourse aux Armes at Albert (Somme) at Easter so will have a look then. He is obviously quite enterprising!!

ATB