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Simon, is that a seiko chronograph in the background? Sorry I can't help it in a watchmaker.
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05-25-2014 07:46 PM
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I say Israeli just on my Mk1 and 2 experience. But sufficient to say, this ain't kosher......... If you'll excuse the pun! Ho ho ho...., just had to get that one in!
Very funny Peter 
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It's getting interesting. Will have to get the other one back to do a double take. Couldn't fix it (or rather, couldn't be bothered) as the threads and diameters were different to the norm.
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Originally Posted by
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Simon, is that a seiko chronograph in the background? Sorry I can't help it in a watchmaker.
Certainly is, my everyday timepiece and fantastically accurate.
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Here's a few more comparison pics.
Top scope is an REL, Middle is our mystery piece and bottom is a CTS converted to L1A1 spec.
Peter, I'd be happy to pass it on to your capable hands via Roger if you wanted to investigate the internals.?
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No fear............. Trying to give them up!
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No fear............. Trying to give them up!
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Another three with one of the adjustment drum caps removed.
I've only ever handled one Israeli No32 (and hope to own one shortly) and it was nothing like this one.
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Mk2 style focus plate, Mk3 turret block, an simplified/improved/experimental slipping scale system, and a non standard lense keeping system.
We've seen other "slipping scale" experimentals, remember the one which had the very large brass locking set-screws?
Home built? Experimental? or a mix of salvaged parts from a "government job" project?
Last edited by Lee Enfield; 05-27-2014 at 10:42 AM.
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The cover just clamps the slipping scale ring by friction - in much the same way the double-coil bronze spring does on the Mk3. One requirement of the proposed Mk3 was that it should '...incorporate within the design a simple method of/the ability to be desiccated without the need to be.......' and on and on. No desiccation method on this one. It also had to be cheaper than the Mk2 it was to replace which it was. But adding Mk3 drums to the already expensive Mk2 made the proposed Mk2/1 even more/the most expensive
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