Home Made Tooling for your Lee Enfield.

[tbonesmith]

Hi Guys,

I have got a No5 that I am rebarrelling and some more in the mail, and I needed a tool to allow me to easily and without damage remove the flash hider. I have seen Peter Laidler's post about doing so on a shop press, but I don't have one and can't fit one, so I made this little fella...

As you can see it clamps around the barrel with a bit of clearance, behind the flash hider and bolts to the piece in front, which is threaded in the middle for an M10 bolt. This bolt is turned down at the end and a maximum OD plug accepts the end of this bolt and bears on the face of the barrel. In this instance it chewed up the muzzle a bit, so I'll try to improve that, however in this case the barrel was totally stuffed to start with, hence the rebarrel.

It works happily in the mill vice, which supports both blocks nicely. Anyway I'm pretty happy with my new tool and no doubt it will do some work.

[tbonesmith]

Hi Guys,

There's nothing I hate more than forseseeing a problem occuring, doing nothing about it and then walking into the problem, like an idiot. I have a couple of Lithgow HT's here for some work, and occasionally I get a P14 sniper. In order to feel comfortable adjusting them for windage without risk to the ocular lens I have had this tool in mind for a while, as there is no way it can slip and contact the lens (touch wood!).

Another benefit is than being hollow I can watch the grat move as I make the adjustment.

[Peter Laidler]

Can I just suggest for the benefit of others that if you do make tools for telescope or optical work, then please, please, I beg of you, please make them with a great deal of thought. Make sure that the slots or keys are the exact width and length and make then so that there is NEVER a chance that the tool can touch the glass