Brits and Aussies! (3 of each)

[browningautorifle]

Even the C1s had cuts in the receiver at first on each side of the charger guide. When loading 5 rds from the top your thumb would go down into these. Later it was deleted. Mrclark303, you should be able to scare up a Canadian rear sight, maybe a breech block carrier...there's usually something selling here in Canada if I look, but don't know what the legalities of sending it to you would be. We'd both probably end up in jail...

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[mrclark303]

Even the C1s had cuts in the receiver at first on each side of the charger guide. When loading 5 rds from the top your thumb would go down into these. Later it was deleted. Mrclark303, you should be able to scare up a Canadian rear sight, maybe a breech block carrier...there's usually something selling here in Canada if I look, but don't know what the legalities of sending it to you would be. We'd both probably end up in jail...

Many thanks for the offer of help, I would be very interested in C1 furniture, late sling and back sight, but a bolt carrier is just too difficult to send, with the restrictions on sending pressure bearing components and magazines.

The cost gets out of hand with the paperwork involved unfortunately mate.

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I would imagine that the machining of the body would be dependent of the machines and cutters you have available. I very much doubt whether factory A would go out and purchase a new machine do cut a certain profile form when they already had machines on hand that could cut something pretty similar that had no bearing on the final product in any case. Think Fazakerley v BSA No4 bodies



Same as Bren bodies from Enfield too. Some sides are clearly machined using up-cut milling while others are machined using what is clearly a slightly untidier down-cut process

Morning Peter, I never realised that there was a difference between BSA and Faz No4 bodies!

I suppose I have always had Maltby No4's (on my third example) rebuilt by the superb Phil Rose.

I have never really compared different manufactured No4's side by side I suppose.

You live and learn..

[enbloc8]

Many thanks for the offer of help, I would be very interested in C1 furniture, late sling and back sight, but a bolt carrier is just too difficult to send, with the restrictions on sending pressure bearing components and magazines.

The cost gets out of hand with the paperwork involved unfortunately mate.

If it's any help, according to my builder a metric carrier is the exact same thing as a Canadian carrier, save for markings and finish. Perhaps you could find one of those locally?

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Even the C1s had cuts in the receiver at first on each side of the charger guide. When loading 5 rds from the top your thumb would go down into these. Later it was deleted.

Wow, never heard that before. Do you know of any pictures of one without the receiver thumb cuts?

Anything that makes recreating the Holy Grail of inch rifles easier is a good thing in my book!

[browningautorifle]

Do you know of any pictures of one without the receiver thumb cuts?

I'll look around. Seems to me it was a 2L series I had in hand when I saw that. Even at 17 or 18 yrs, I knew I was witnessing something different.