Brits and Aussies! (3 of each)

[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..