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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter Laidlericon View Post
    ......the use of shims on 7.62mm barrels was not permitted EXCEPT for the L55 DP guns
    The shims and shim tool are shown in the Illustrated Parts List for the L4A1 and L4A2.
    Were these also permitted to be shimed as they were issued with two barrels or were the IPL's a bit over enthusiastic ?

    ATB KG

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    Interesting........ I'm not sure that shims were allowed for any of the L4 guns. Certainly not the A2's onwards. I'll check with the EMER's tomorrow

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    Sorry for the delay but just checked with the full set of EMER's and while the barrel washer/shims might be shown in the early L4 A1 and 2 parts lists, I can find absolutely NO mention of the barrel tightening shims being permitted for use on the 7.62mm L4 guns at any repair level. Just to double check, I looked through the tool list and neither is the special assembly tool provided for the L4 guns.

    To sum up.... Officially, .303" Bren, YES, up to .006" but L4 guns, No.

    But if you were a needy civillian L4 owner without access to a rack full of barrels ready to interchange as required, then so what if you did use the odd barrel shim!

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    Thanks for the clarification Peter

    ATB KG

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    Funny,

    The barrel that 'belongs' to my bren has a S behind the number so it's a spare barrel (It was hardly used.) and my spare barrel doesn't have the S... Oh well during re-enactment I can change them. Just need to have them correcly locked away otherwise the numbers on my license wont match...
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    Daniel,try and edit your post and change 'spare' to second before Peter reads it !

    ATB Kevin

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    Henous mistake calling it a 'spare' barrel. It was the SECOND barrel, as pointed out by KG! Eventally we didn't even mark the second barrel with an 'S' so that they'd just regard them both as just, well, barrels

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    Oeps.....

    Well I'll never call it a ***** barrel again...

    Sorry Peter..

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