What Spare Parts Should You Have ?

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12- Extra Frt sight Pin and Lead Key

Meant to comment on this when you made the post, but forgot. I've never heard of a lead sight key. Were those actually made? The only NOS one I ever had was from Chestnut Ridge and thought it was mild steel - sold it at a gun show and then learned they're now hard to find. I do have a couple used ones, but don't believe they're lead. One came from JimF, so I know it's genuine.

This is entirely unrelated, but saw yesterday on the CC website (under parts) that the descriptive labels for the "Grand Rapids" TH illustrations have changed. The description for the "blue arrow" at the rear lug has been removed. I worked with Jim M. in the past (believe the arrow was white originally) when those "indents"were labeled as being for tooling alignment. I told him what they were, based on my experience with Carbines and even sent him pictures (before & after) of one that I had peened to tighten up a loose fit. I know Jim M. is very busy so didn't want to bother him about it. Do you know if the recent change was intentional, or maybe just lost accidentally in a page revision? Has Dan or Wayne said anything about it? Thanks! - Bob

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