Desperately Need Help Authenticating Jungle Carbine!

[Colonel Enfield]

Strangely, it was the NZ VM's that were masters at get-you-home-repairs in all conditions.

Kiwi ingenuity has long been considered one of the country's great traits and there's a long history in NZ of effecting improbable repairs with "some 2x4 and No. 8 fencing wire" (ie whatever was lying around at the time). Legendarily, during the Pacific Theatre of WWII, RNZAF mechanics and engineers were able to take the discarded parts of three or four other F4U Corsairs (allegedly cast away by the Americans, so the story goes) and rebuild them into another flying Corsair which saw combat service and performed exactly as well as a factory-built plane.

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[Seaspriter]

some 2x4 and No. 8 fencing wire" (ie whatever was lying around at the time)

We refer to this as the "bubble gum and bailing wire" (or clothes hanger) approach. I remember my grandmother using this technique (showed to her by her father) on a 1952 Oldsmobile that had a pin-hole leak in the gas tank. She took chewing gum and mashed it into the hole. Lo and behold dried and sealed the tank for a couple of years until she sold the car.

[5thBatt]

"some 2x4 and No. 8 fencing wire"

Don't you mean some 4x2 and No. 8 next you'll be telling me the color of my car is green when the colour of my car is green

[Colonel Enfield]

It was always called 2x4 when I was growing up (which wasn't in the US)