1942 Lithgow No1 paint marking question

[browningautorifle]

why not just paint a red band on it and be done with it instead of a green band and two red dots.

Guess you'd have to pose that to the guy doing the painting.

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[S-A-M3]

Peter.. will know, listen to what he says!!!!. S

[muffett.2008]

Correct Pete, When doing Preservation and Storage Inspections as per EMEI Weapons A 144-1, items found to be defective, damaged, corroded or missing parts outside the Scope of the RAAOC or Unit Repair system, were given a splash of red paint as opposed to stamping the butt and forwarded to a RAEME Base Repair Facility for Re-inspection , Classification and Repair if warranted.


Items found to be out of repair parameters were marked UR and set aside for an Inspection Officer/Board of Survey.

[Gil Boyd]

.................and of course white banded UK & Commonwealth weapons denoting deactivated and often seen with Cadet units at memorials.

[Homer]

The green band might have already existed on the rifle.

[kpj53]

The green band might have already existed on the rifle.

Thats possible, but if you have the red paint and the brush in your hand why not red paint over the green band if the rifle was not to be fired.

I have never read anywhere where any color paint dots are applied but plenty of info on the green/yellow/red bands.

[Bindi2]

Thats possible, but if you have the red paint and the brush in your hand why not red paint over the green band if the rifle was not to be fired.

I have never read anywhere where any color paint dots are applied but plenty of info on the green/yellow/red bands.

Remember this was at the end of the SMLE life at the hands of the cadets who didn't have the means to repair rifles and had limited means to signify problems at their end. There may only have been a screw missing hence the red dob.

[kpj53]

Remember this was at the end of the SMLE life at the hands of the cadets who didn't have the means to repair rifles and had limited means to signify problems at their end. There may only have been a screw missing hence the red dob.

When the rifle was imported the front sight was loose as well as the buttstock, so the seller assumed the red dots were there for that. Sounded plausible but was just trying to make sure. Mostly because if I sold it down the road I didnt want it to be an 'unsafe' rifle.

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And you may never find any published information on the red dots, but two retired commonwealth armorers have responded to your thread. Id take note of the information,

Trust me I always appreciate when Peter and the other retired armorers (and anyone else for that matter) take the time to type something out.

I'm just discussing, not disagreeing with anyone

[Homer]

Thats possible, but if you have the red paint and the brush in your hand why not red paint over the green band if the rifle was not to be fired.

I have never read anywhere where any color paint dots are applied but plenty of info on the green/yellow/red bands.

And you may never find any published information on the red dots, but two retired commonwealth armorers have responded to your thread. Id take note of the information,

[muffett.2008]

The question that should be asked, is how a firearm with provisional major repair indicators, found it's way into the system without the marks being removed.

The firearm in question was found to be defective to the extent that it required backloading to a Base Repair Facility...….this means that the repair was beyond the scope of the RAEME attached to the Unit or Inspection Team that identified the fault.

If the repair was beyond the scope of the Base Workshop(highly unlikely) the firearm would be either classified UR, or if it was a receiver problem and replaceable, marked FR and sent to factory where it would have gone through an FTR program.

Once the firearm was repaired by Base Workshops, it would be returned to Unit, if forwarded to Factory, a replacement would be issued to the holding Unit to maintain their holdings.
All paint markings would be removed after either Base Repair or FTR, as the firearm would have been restored to as new condition.(this includes the Cadet paint band)

As this rifle was FTR'd it means that the downgrade to Cadet green was after the FTR date, the further downgrade and marking for Base Repair would have been from the Cadet Unit storage, or possibly about 1980 when the rifles were withdrawn from Cadet Units.


To have survived with the red paint intact is an indicator that the firearm was never repaired...….maybe sold as is with the JJCO purchases.