Inherent Weakness ?

[Alan de Enfield]

[QUOTE=Dimitri;60831 Alan, Ed,

One of you two wouldn't happen to have a dimensional drawing for the No4 receiver would you?

Dimitri[/QUOTE]

Nope - sorry - but if you find one I could do with a copy to go in my increasingly thickening Enfield file.

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[ireload2]

Nope - sorry - but if you find one I could do with a copy to go in my increasingly thickening Enfield file.

If you want to make calculations on the strength of the Lee-Enfield receiver it takes only about 15-20 minutes to measure the cross section dimensions with a set of calipers and a micrometer.
The bolt can be measured in 5 minutes.

[Dimitri]

Nope - sorry - but if you find one I could do with a copy to go in my increasingly thickening Enfield file.

Will do, but it will be in the future when I get easy access to a CMM machine, when I will reverse engineer the No.4 action cause CMM prices range from 80 to 120$ a hour and its alittle too expensive.

The .308 Winchester was designed and released by Winchester(Olin).
They "own it". You do not understand the concept ownership of a design. If the design has a problem it is the responsibility of the company that originally designed it.

No Olin got a sneak peak and jumped it into the civilian market. They did not create or develop it first, they simply stole it into the market. Considering the US Military can't own a design, even if the Military wanted to they could have not stopped Olin.

And we all know how much Olin/Winchester likes to rip off the military, 2 out of the 3 times it went bankrupt was due to the military taking back the illegally gained profits the company got during both World Wars.

As for a design being the responsibility of the original designers that is not the case, once the designer is done with it, if others copy it they cannot be held liable for a copy, only the designs they produced themselves.

You seem to lack knowledge of patent law and other various laws that protect designers to their rights of a new "design".

Dimitri