Replacing a magazine opening cover.

[Peter Laidler]

Ah, yes Kev........ Matching numbers I can see and fully agree with - providing that the barrel fits correctly and the barrel nut is tight (and bolt is fitted correctly if necessary and numbered) While the butt slides were always numbered I have to confess that I didn't place too much importance on it because the either fitted or they didn't!

But when it comes to '...... original, as it left the factory' demanding a premium then there is the rub. Or is that '......original, as it would be in the parts list'? There's a subtle difference. And a Dodgy Diamond Dave the Dealer who reverts a mid-life Mk1 back into an all singing and dancing 'parts list' Mk1 ain't being honest in my humble opinion simply because a) he's in for a quick buck and b) he doesn't KNOW what it came out with. Surely making one up from a parts bin store is more honest because that's how it really happened on a workshop assembly line.

It's only my opinion of course. But on a similar note, there's a thread running on a car forum 'wot I write in' about restoring a body shell and the restorer wants to keep it 'original' and is asking if anyone still has the facilities to paint this 1960's car in the old original cellulose paint.......... I mean......... Cellulose! Presumably he still wants the original Leyland orange peel effect too! Anyway. (PS. I just told him to get real and get it done in modern, tough as old boots, hard wearing two-pack paint)

Have a nice weekend everyone in Bren Gun land.

[Kev G]

Well I wouldn't expect a Monotype MK2 to leave the factory with a Canadian JI part even if it did have the same part number.
For the weapon to function it isn't going to matter but as a representative Montotype MK2 gun in a collection having JI marked parts all over it is an epic fail. (IMO)

Each to there own though.

While on the subject of paint....... I went to Arbourfield a few years ago to strip down,inspect and photograph a couple of weapons of interest; a Czech ZH29 rifle and a Czech made Bren gun for Iraq.

The ZH29 showed wear but retained it's original finish now a lovely plumb colour.
The Czech made Bren 'should' have looked similar in appearance but some one in his infinite wisdom had decided to give it a nice hard wearing coat of modern Suncorite paint

........I could have cried !

Have a good weekend yourself Peter, ATB Kevin

[Peter Laidler]

That used to happen at Warminster where there would be comments about a finish that we'd applied in the past or 'foreign' parts we'd fitted. But we had to come clean and just say that some of the weaponry had come to us from the battlefield and was here simply because we'd tested it to death! And thereafter set about preserving what we'd got. The very first MG42 that England had obtained, captured in the western desert was a good example

[Peter Laidler]

But on the other hand Kev, what about an Inglis Bren leaving Inglis with UK Hercules Cycles bipod legs as per:

INGLIS AND THE BOTTLE-NECK BIPODS
It was during the Autumn of 1942 that the Mk1 type bipod was found to be causing a bottleneck in production due to the difficulty in obtaining supplies of upper and lower bipod tubes. Quite incredibly, the shaped tube was shipped from Accles and Pollock in England to Canada and in 1942 the North Atlantic was definitely NOT a safe place for allied ships. The tapered tube used in the production of bipod legs (and bayonet scabbards incidentally, more about which later….) was a recent innovation and

Comments on a postcard please..................

[tankhunter]

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Having a Lovely time, wish you were Here!.....................................

[Kev G]

[Peter Laidler]

That made me laugh Kev....... Made my day! Have a nice one yourself.