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Yep, couldn't agree more Joe. It's finding the right people that will do the job AT THE RIGHT PRICE. It's like I find having No32 telescope parts manufactured. in v-small quantities. But I find some of the small home model engineers are superb. There will be someone with a larger home engineering hobby shop that can do.
I heard from a uk bit-part forumer yesterday that the UK
gun trade have an outsource worker who deep drills their old No1,4 and Bren barrels (when they used to do this sort of work several years ago, The special drill bits were attached to a 24" long long high tensile steel rod and worked through the rotating barrel, fed with oil, from the tailstock end by hand pressure. Prevented from turning by a wooden tommy bar handle attached to the end. A standard drill finish was obtained of course.
But if the barrel was to be relined, it was left like this. If to be become a shotgun size (a technicality for certain UK laws at the time.....) it'd be honed by hand in a similar manner. Clever eh!
I wish some more forumers would come on board with ideas, plusses and minuses, pro's and cons because together we WILL make advances, believe me. Many minds make light work and all that
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From a UK point of view, if we can have L1A1s as straight pulls, we surely could have a Straight pull Bren with a lined barrel or new made barrel with no gas vent. That would be another small potential market. Obviously there would need to be other modifications to gas parts etc. But it's another possibility.
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Straight pull Brens......... In the UK............ Legally owned and used........ I think someone needs a word in your shell-like BP!
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That sounds like an interesting proposition. If we had a print and an order for 50+ barrels then it might be something we could tackle. An order of a couple hundred and we could probably manufacture them at a much lower price point. Tooling up for production would probably be the trickiest part.
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UK point of view, if we can have L1A1s as straight pulls, we surely could have a Straight pull Bren with a lined barrel or new made barrel with no gas vent. That would be another small potential market. Obviously there would need to be other modifications to gas parts etc. But it's another possibility.
Strange you mention it BP, one lad at my local club mentioned it last week...... After one lad had bought a Deac Bren.
With the EU directive around the corner, I'm wating to see what they will do regarding our semi Auto .22's plus other things on the hit list, lets hope common sense prevails, but as its EU I doubt it very much......
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EU, MP,s & Common sense!!!! Those Word's don't function together Mate! LOL. When have you EVER Known a Government Department.
Actually Function on Common Sense?........
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Straight pull Brens......... In the
UK............ Legally owned and used........ I think someone needs a word in your shell-like BP!
Just a thought Peter, I never would have thought an L1A1 would have been UK legal either but there are maybe double figure quantities being used regularly now.
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Just a thought Peter, I never would have thought an L1A1 would have been
UK legal either but there are maybe double figure quantities being used regularly now.
in regards to UK laws what would be the status of a newly designed bren that looked like a bren but used the L1A1 bolt and carrier and was never a semi or auto but designed and manufactured as a straight pull? Besides the body is there any restriction on using the butt slide and barrel
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The actual butt slide of a Bren is not a load or pressure bearing part and you can have a box full of them so...... The laws here are just sooooooo long and convoluted with double interpretations placed on them - to suit the prosecutor of course - that to get one of what you want cleared, you'd have to........................ Have you ever heard the phrase 'pi....., er....., urinating into the wind'?
But if some wag started from fresh, using a newly made look-a-like Bren body and barrel that was a single shot crank-and-shoot 'rifle' then it'd be looked at non too kindly and THEN refused! Just my take on things
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