Transit Chest Images - For those interested

[Son]

Bushy, here is a pic of my chest, now complete with baffles. I haven't got around to doing a pic with the rifles and cased scopes packed in the box, but I do know what the leather strap is for in the centre.... and it is NOT for bayonets!

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[BushyFromOz]

Bushy, here is a pic of my chest, now complete with baffles. I haven't got around to doing a pic with the rifles and cased scopes packed in the box, but I do know what the leather strap is for in the centre.... and it is NOT for bayonets!

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Waiting to here what the strap is for

[Son]

When you put the two rifles into their positions, the knobs on both bolts are hard up against the walls of the chest. The bolts go in the leather strap, not sure exactly how, or if there is another bit involved, but it is for the bolts.

[BushyFromOz]

When you put the two rifles into their positions, the knobs on both bolts are hard up against the walls of the chest. The bolts go in the leather strap, not sure exactly how, or if there is another bit involved, but it is for the bolts.

They must have had a canvas bag or something, surely?

Also, do you have any idea what the seal for the lid was before it perished?

[Peter Laidler]

Looks like the seal was made from a stuff called 'rubberoid'. That's exactly how it perished - into a sort of rubbery goo and impossible to get off your fingers. Used to find it on old .38 ammo boxes that'd been in store for ages.
I don't dispute it Son but wonder how a thick leather strap and buckle with widely spaced holes could safely hold the bolts. They'd be rolling about like a bulldogs balls before long. Maybe they were wrapped in that thick waxed paper.
Looking at the geometry of the box layout as shown and based on nothing more than that, it SEEMS to show that two rifles fit in there BUT the left hand rifle will be muzzle forwards and other rifle vice verca. Surely the bolts fthen ace INWARDS. Or am I missing sumfink?

[BushyFromOz]

Looks like the seal was made from a stuff called 'rubberoid'. That's exactly how it perished - into a sort of rubbery goo and impossible to get off your fingers. Used to find it on old .38 ammo boxes that'd been in store for ages.

Thanks peter. My chest needs at least 3 panels pulles off it for repair, with 1 to be replaced. Figured i might as well refurb the whole thing

[BushyFromOz]

Peter, the rubberoid, is that the same stuff used to seal roofing? Tar based, comes in a sheet and you cut it up?

[Son]

Yes Peter, the rifles do go in from opposite ends, but they are upside down. I will load my chest up and take pics in the next day or two.

[BushyFromOz]

Yes Peter, the rifles do go in from opposite ends, but they are upside down. I will load my chest up and take pics in the next day or two.

I have just been messing around with mine, if i stack them with the bolts out against the walls, they do touch, but the butt also intrudes on the space where the scope canister would go, if i stack it with the bolts on the inside, the bolt clears the next rifle over as the for-end passes above it.

I don't know whether is is by design, or the fact the felt packing in mine is rotten, but there is no downwards pressure around the wrist of the butt, but there is a bit of downwards pressure on the underside of the fore-ends where the baffled clamps it, the nose cap is mm away from on the the lugs that holds the scope can, and the butt plate is a few mm of another scope can lug at the other end.

Any chance the strap is for strapping the slings down as they seem to need to be removed to fit the baffles properly??

[BushyFromOz]

With sling in the strap Son, perfect width for 2 slings, and feels like it clears the top-side of the stock

I had this idea though that with some bumping around, the bolt could undo itself, but then i remembered a thread from another firearms forums, where some guy was reminiscing about his "sniper" training in the Astralian Army, about his Patt 1916 Scout Regiment telescope and the ww2 dated canvas and muzzle and breech covers, so i assume the were packed with breech and muzzle covers on?

Wish i could find that post



New use for the scope can holder