L1A1 and No4 pullthroughs

[Peter Laidler]

Someone has asked me to write up in this forum a bit I wrote in the L1A1 forum, so here goes. To see the picture you'll have to look in the L1A1 forum under L1A1 related item:

Now here's a bit of useless information for you Enfield fiends. Look at the black pullthrough weight in the tin shown above. You'll notice that it is ground across like a needle. This differentiates betwen an L1A1/SLR pullthrough weight and a notmal No4 rifle pullthrough. The chamfer was hardened and this allowed the edge and tip of the weight to be used as a scraper to clean the gas fouling from the piston rings and gas plug and inside the gas block where the gas plug locks. It was softer than the chromed piston and plug so couldn't be used too agressively so it served its purpose.

Now you know should you ever see another or if you (wrongly) have one in your No4 cleaning kit

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