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    Please purchase a SAIS #2 from http://www.skennerton.com on the No.4 rifle. These precious little booklets have a reprint of the REAL illustrated parts catalog so that you can learn the proper terminology for the parts. The $10 investment is worth it's weight in gold when trying to discuss these issues let alone spend your hard earned money buying spare parts!

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    Never a truer word spoken Brian. I used to use old well thumbed oily copies on my workbench until I retired and left them for the other Armourers that hadn't even used Brens and Vickers guns. Re the Tool, adjusting foresights........

    Kent, believe me........, you really don't need one. A total waste of space, time and effort and I never knew a real Armourer who ever used one. Just ask yourself this simple question. If we really did need to use one of these ill fitting tools (and the No4 and 5 ones were dire.....) why didn't we get one for the Bren or Vickers or Mk2 Sten or the No2 pistol or.................. And another thing...... How come they were any use given that they were so ill fitting over the protectors?

    You just need to remember this simple formula. Foresight into the error. Backsight out of the error. Or if your shots are going left, move the foresight left!

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    I enjoyed reading this and it has made me feel better about myself at the same time. When I started into Enfields many years ago I learned as I went along. My first front sight adjustment, and all ever since, have been done with a brass punch and hammer. All the while I would think that I really did need to get one of those proper front sight adjustment tools. Just never did though. Don't have to now. Been doing it the "correct" way since the beginning.
    Thanks!

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    It's the difference between in the class room as snotty nosed apprentices and what the real Armourers taught you once you were out in the real world. Another similar 'tool' was the tool designed, probably by Biffo the Bear or Alice in Wonderland somewhere for removing the L1A1 rifle extractor, stay and spring. Thumb levers, axis pins, pins split joints. What an absolute palava. When every Armourer knew after the first time he used it that the very best tool was the tough little pin actually made for the job, fixed to the combination tool. Both would/could let the stay and spring fly out into the great unknown so you just pointed it towards your waist so that if the spring and stay did fly out, it just flew into your overalls!

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    I do say old boy I've never followed such drivel and shan't spend a moment more entwined in such meager toil. Prof. Nincompoop
    LOL..!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Phantom Man View Post
    I do say old boy I've never followed such drivel and shan't spend a moment more
    And we won't miss you...
    Regards, Jim

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