Savage No 4 Mk1 T

[Surpmil]

Is that 'staking' of the screws 'normal' ?



I was under the impression that it is the surrounding metal that is punched so it deforms into the screw slot.

It is certainly that way on both my 4T & L42

IIRC Peter told us in the past that as some pads, having repeatedly come loose and been repeatedly re-staked, became impossible to stake from the pad into the screw slot, the screw head was instead staked into one of the divots formed in the edge of the pad previously.