Proper parts install?

[RJW NZ]

Hi All,
just a quick Q thats baffling me as I order parts; does the no1 mk3 front trigger guard screw come with a spring/lock washer, or even a flat washer? I find it every now and then on a rilfe, but schematics like Springfield Sporters don't list one.
thanks

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[Bindi2]

Short answer is no not a military rifle part. Used as a short cut to fix a problem by ameteur gunsmiths.

[RJW NZ]

OK, thanks,

[Alan de Enfield]

Extract of an old post by Peter Laidler :

"............The COLLAR. You MUST have a collar and spring washer. This is what WE used to do. Put the front trigger guard screw into the trigger guard and body WITHOUT the washer or collar. Reverse it (that’s anti-clockwise …..) until you hear it click over the start thread and tighten it BUT COUNT THE TURNS UNTIL IT TIGHTENS AND LOCKS. Say, that it’s 7 ¼ turns to lock. Now do this with the collar fitted if it’s now, say 8 ½ turns, shorten the collar, a smidgin at a time, until the screw tightens up at exactly 7 ¼ turns. That way, you KNOW that the screw is tight, the fore-end is tight between the trigger guard and the screw and you are not crushing the living daylights out of the fore-end................"

[Bindi2]

The No1 Mk111 does not have a spring washer but the No4 does show one S.A.I.S No.2 part No CR 387 / BB 8640.

[Peter Laidler]

My experience with the No1/SMLE is quite limited to the odd ones that came through for FTR or the hundreds of EY rifles. If I remember, the washer would fit onto the No1 screw but the actual screw head was slightly tapered - as was the recess in the trigger guard. As such, the screw head locked into the taper. We'd always put washers in place just as good engineering practice

[Edward Horton]

RJW NZ

I still hate you for having more Enfield's than I do, but take satisfaction in knowing I'm giving restricted Australian War secrets to a New Zealander.











It is funny when you think about it.

[browningautorifle]

I like that last poster, pretty funny!

[jmoore]

Needs to lose the apostrophe, though.

[RJW NZ]

Re Ed, parts lists showing the washer under the no 4 trigger guard, hmmm, I'm not so sure about that.


ps, a new enfield has taken up residence since last, actually two, a longbranch matching 4 sets of serials, 5 groove, near new barrel, but thats going out the door soon for a friend. My newy is a no1mk3 target rifle that belonged to the NZ navy, according to the brass disc which is so stamped, RNZN, and the knox has both Fultons and AGP stamps. Its been really looked after too. Inside the handguard reveals a wholly different approach to accurising compared to the fultons profile we already have here. pics coming.