Quote Originally Posted by Surpmil View Post
As for the No.32 bracket, your drawing is patterned on the Chinese-made replicas I see, but the type I was referring is very well explained here: Lee Enfield Rifleicon Scope Brackets - Real (In Service) and Reproduction
Suprmil, the bracket repro is not made off of Chinese bracket, but modeled from HM No32 bracket engineering drawings (of however poor quality they are) available on this site. The only thing similar to Chinese brackets is a loft around the curve from the back bracket mount to the "body". As original brackets were cast and then machined the casting mold was done by hand and drawings did not specify how the transition is done (is it was simply hand carved int he mold). In addition, I believe that's where original molds had a casting sprue and was hand finished. (I may be off in my analysis, but that would be an obvious place)

As far as collimation, I'm quite familiar with Peter Laidlericon's work from this site (and his collimation techniques) as well as Skennertonicon books.

Obviously the issue is hand fitting of the pads to each rifle (either original or repro) which will play a large role in the collimation of the scope.