At long last!... my first L1A1..

[fernleaf]

Thanks for all the good info here guys - I think I'm just going to hunt down a replacement rear sight assembly..

[nzl1a1collector]

The TMH is put into the vice as is, no further stripping is required.

The pics are from the Australian EMEI D 253, Issue 8, May 92, but I'm fairly sure I have been it in the British EMER.... somewhere.... I do know the Repair Kit I have came from the UK, so they must of been over there... somewhere.

The NSN for the Repair Kit, L1A1 Rifle is 1005-99-964-6294

[nzl1a1collector]

Found the EMER reference:

D113, Issue 11, Sep 74
Page 23 and Page 24
Body/Trigger mechanism housing - Sideways movement - Repair

I think the original instruction was D119 Misc Instr No. 11. Unfortunately I don't have a copy of that particular instruction, its just listed in the index as being Cancelled. This information is now given in S Arm D 113.

[Peter Laidler]

That's enough for me KtK.......... Never ever seen one or even knew it existed but the punch is a standard bit of kit from the Armourers tool box The question is how did you clamp it in the vice with the change lever in place and the axis pin heads and shafts protruding through.

As it is a pom bit of kit we can safely assume that the 33CW is 33 Command Workshops REME but by '76 they'd all changed to DISTRICT workshops. I'd call it a palliative and not a real cure because the overhang of the rifle body over the TMH is pretty marginal.

You ought to be getting all this stuff down in print KtK!

[enbloc8]

The question is how did you clamp it in the vice with the change lever in place and the axis pin heads and shafts protruding through.

From another publication I have, that depicts this contraption set up in a vise with a TMH, it looks as though the support plates were made thick enough to clear the axis pin protrusions, and the selector was simply rotated down so the thumbpiece was out of the way. The grasping force of the vise would have been transferred to the steel block that's inside the rear of the TMH and to the crosspiece that the hammer spring anchors against.

To the OP...sorry for inducing the threadjack, and congratulations on the beautiful rifle!

[nzl1a1collector]

As enblock8 mentioned the support plates are thick (7mm) and the pressure is supported by the internal solid steel block that the TMH is formed around.

[Peter Laidler]

Do you remember this thinggy Tankie? What about you Skippy? Son? This seems to come from an Australian EMEI

[skiprat]

Yep I've used them on the shooting teams weapons, just to instill a bit of confidence in people that could not shoot..
Didn't use it very often, not a routine repair
I've just found a set while tidying the work bench. (Has it been that long since I last had a tidy up?)

[nzl1a1collector]

Yep I've used them on the shooting teams weapons, just to instill a bit of confidence in people that could not shoot..
Didn't use it very often, not a routine repair
I've just found a set while tidying the work bench. (Has it been that long since I last had a tidy up?)

I wonder what else you have hiding under the workshop bench?

Isn't that an bit of an oxymoron? "I've used them on the shooting teams weapons, just to instill a bit of confidence in people that could not shoot.." I was under the impression the shooting teams were the best of the best shooters LOL

[skiprat]

We are still asked to remove the play between body and trigger mechanism housing on the L85 A2 (SA80) and the sights are all on the body.......
Most of the shooting teams I worked with " thought " they could shoot......... (non infantry)
Last year under another Armourers bench I found a 1915 dated "fencing musket" you don't find if you don't dig......