Not often seen

[Peter Laidler]

It WILL if you are a crunchie BAR and you try REALLY hard....................

[browningautorifle]

I am sir...and I still can't see trying it...but then again, I liked those rifles and didn't want to harm them.

Attachment 51654 About 1982...

[stencollector]

We were talking about this little gem back on page two of this thread. I happened across mine today, so thought I would share a photo.

[browningautorifle]

Which rod? Parker Hale?

[stencollector]

I ran downstairs and tried it on my 4 PH rods.....no go. It would thread about 3-1/2 turns then stop. I'm heading out to the workshop so I'll try it on the US pattern rods, as well as the rods that came with the FN C1A1 cleaning kit. It could well be for either of those.

The NSN for this one was an early Canadian number, so it could just as likely be related to the FN as to the Enfield. Both weapon systems are closely NSN numbered with some overlap on oddball stuff.

[stencollector]

I spotted one of these tools available on a US gunparts website. Price is $45. Is is described as : MLE 'Long Lee' Cleaning Rod Guide

MLE 'Long Lee' Cleaning Rod Guide - BRP CORP Store

[Peter Laidler]

That SCREW removing brokewn pullthrough thing in thread 33 was fitted to the long T handled cleaning rod that you could use to get a bit of a grip on to twist it into the tank sized bit of rag jammed in the bore. You had to be careful to only do a turn at a time and pull back because if you did a few turns, the screw would just screw itself int the blockage and stick fast until you undid it. And guess what happened then........................... Yep, that screw bit would unscrew from the rod so THEN, you had the pullthrough, the tank sized bit of rag AND the unscrewed screw, screwed into the rag which you couldn't pull backwards. You then had to resort to........................

Fxxxxxx jobs we used to get............ You just resort to the blowtorch

[stencollector]

Wouldn't it make sense for the weapons shop to dedicate a cleaning rod to the attachment, and permanently fix the screw onto it either by silver solder or perhaps by (in more modern times) loctite? A cleaning rod is a lot cheaper than a barrel.

[bigduke6]

Nice pic Jim, would the uniform still fit ?

Regarding the subject of clearing blockages I,ve copied below form an old post of mine regarding cleaning the rifle after using a chamber adapter, more to with time than anything else and I was trying to cut corners to save time, anyway .....



As it was a while between aquiring the ammo and finally going to the club and testing it out, I forgot what the bloke at bisley had said " Its old ammo so the primers may be corrosive" he was spot on, doesnt take a rocket scientist to figure out what the barrel looked like a week later !!

Well this is were the fun started, not phased I give it a good clean and the bore come good, took a long time, but finally got to the point of using my pull through, of course this was an original from a cleaning kit (old) thought I,d give it one last clean so changed the cleaning patch and started on the final pull, it was tight but started to go, got to half way and it snapped, At this point I was slightly pi**** off to say the least, the left over of the pull through started to shift but finally wouldnt go anymore even hammering the alluminum rod down, the pull through was acting like a buffer as it was compressed so tight, plan C was put in to action, I had made a few years before some brass and Aluminium extractors and also something that resembles a deep hole drill bit, (all soft material ). so went out in to the garage with the rifle.

Its a long process and to speed it up I leaned over to get the drill from the workbench, (I was sat on a box at the time, with the rifle across my knees), as soon as I touched the drill I got a shock, with this I moved my arm downwards throwing the drill to the floor, at this point I moved a leg which just had the rifle balanced on one knee, of course once the drill had left my hand, my hand was still travelling at some speed and enough speed and force to hit the rifle which forced the fore-end down towards the floor and causing the butt to jump up and smack me just on the corner of the eye socket, with in minutes it looked like a murder scene, claret everywhere, dripping all over, all down my front I manged to stem the blood with my T shirt and cover the rifle while I went back into the house, locked the rifle up, and had a look at the damage, it needed something so found a clean shirt and taped a patch over the wound and went down to the drop in centre.

The nurse said "what have you been doing"

"walked into the door" I said ........


Lucky for me no damage to rifle but was a learning curve

[browningautorifle]

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would the uniform still fit ?

Matter of fact, I haven't changed that much...just a few lines...

The '08-15 didn't have a plugged barrel, it had other issues...