Making a slip patch in a handguard

[Peter Laidler]

Great to see. I'd have thopught that in photo 1 and 2 it'd have been as easy to just put new legs into the SMLE top handguard. Mind you, the post '55 EMER just says cut them off so......... I did a couple of those SMLE ears a year or so ago on an otherwise new/perfect handguard just to show how they could be done successfully.

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[Kiwi]

Great to see. I'd have thopught that in photo 1 and 2 it'd have been as easy to just put new legs into the SMLE top handguard. Mind you, the post '55 EMER just says cut them off so......... I did a couple of those SMLE ears a year or so ago on an otherwise new/perfect handguard just to show how they could be done successfully.

Thought you'd like them. I have five smle front hand guards that are each only missing only one 'ear'. Going to try and put ears back on them in a similar way to that repair as it seems a shame to remove the perfectly good ear on the other side.