Sterling L2A3 NZ contract

[Peter Laidler]

They were supplied to NZ in crinkle finish. It seems to me that yours has been stripped off and just the original phosphate finish remains

The ejector screw is simplicity itself to make. You just need a philips headed bolt of the correct UNF thread and machine the short shoulder on it. Sterling bought them in as that and machined the shoulder.

NZ guns were sold to a UK dealer, originally to be sold on as serviceable weapons to other nations. But by then, SMG's were obsolete. So they remained unsold until they went out to the deact market where nobody really wanted them either!

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[mrclark303]

They were supplied to NZ in crinkle finish. It seems to me that yours has been stripped off and just the original phosphate finish remains

The ejector screw is simplicity itself to make. You just need a philips headed bolt of the correct UNF thread and machine the short shoulder on it. Sterling bought them in as that and machined the shoulder.

NZ guns were sold to a UK dealer, originally to be sold on as serviceable weapons to other nations. But by then, SMG's were obsolete. So they remained unsold until they went out to the deact market where nobody really wanted them either!

I guess all the ex NZ L2A3's must have been refurbished a few times during their service Peter.

I think all the NZ contact examples I have seen have always been Suncorite finished.

I always assumed it was only the Faz L2's that had the crinkle finish applied, you learn something every day!

It's funny, but in the last five years or so, old spec L2 Sterling's​ "were" fetching strong money, especially if they were the sympathetically deactivated examples chopped by the likes of Charnwood Ordinance.