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I have two No. 5's. One is from Fazakerly and the other one is BSA Shirley and the receiver markings are very faint. I think that is normal for the No. 5's, at least from what I have observed.
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08-08-2010 03:47 PM
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I was looking at it today with natural sunlight and in holding it in just a certain way I could read everything clearly except the date. Still can't see that final number but the first two are 2/4.
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Aragorn243
I was looking at it today with natural sunlight and in holding it in just a certain way I could read everything clearly except the date. Still can't see that final number but the first two are 2/4.
Using this site, it would seem to reason that you have a: 2/46. With U7929 as a serial number. http://home.earthlink.net/~smithkaia...ists/id21.html
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Last edited by finloq; 08-08-2010 at 08:25 PM.
"Self-realization. I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "... I drank what?"
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The handguard ring comes right off of this one. It expands once you take the screw out. Maybe because it's too thin? It was a tight fit but it did come off.
It is definately a No 5 MK 1 ROF (F) rifle. I cleaned the metal off and can read that clearly now. I still can't make out the date but appears to be 2-46 as 2-43 would make no sense for this rifle. I may try a pencil rubbing but something tells me that isn't going to work.
The "U" prefix would be an early 1946 Fazakerley.
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This is one of mine. I have more images.
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2-46 makes sense. Once I thought I could make out a 3 or a 6 but I knew the 3 wouldn't work. I can't see the 6 anymore so that may have been a figment of my imagination. I "saw" it before I wiped the thin coat of grease off of it.
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Mark 5
Try using a tire marking stick like I did. Talcum powder may work also.
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I've looked around the house for something to mark it with but didn't come up with anything. It isn't a big deal, has to be 46.
New question. I stripped the rifle down this evening to give the metal a good cleaning. I mentioned before that the trigger guard assembly is in pretty rough shape. Some deep pitting that while I don't think it is enough to weaken the structure, I'd like to control it and possibly fill it in if possible. All this pitting is where it can't be seen on the underside. For now I've wired brushed the rust out and sprayed it with rem oil.
All in all everything else is in pretty good shape, there was a bit of rust in the butt stock cup but I kind of figured on that. The rest of the metal cleaned up pretty nice.
I'm seeing a lot of "F"s stamped on everything and a few "B"s on the small parts. Would these be the id marks for the two manufacturers? Mostly "F"s, maybe three "B"s.
I decided to leave the rear sight alone. Pounding on it doesn't appeal to me. What would your thoughts be on using small files and just reshaping it?
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Why don't you just gently bead blast the rust pitted parts then have them phosphated. That's virtually protected them for good now. Then, get them black painted to protect it fully - for good. Assemble it up with lashings of GREASE, PX11 or XG49 between the wood and the steelwork. That's just what we did with our No5's. Thousands of them........ At last you and everyone after you knows that it's as original as it gets.
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