The new .22 conversion kit has landed!

[mrclark303]

Morning all,

I received my new conversion kit just before Christmas, the only example of Rays work to get to the UK so far.

A few good friends proved invaluable in the process, Dean in Wichita and Neal Parnham (Suffolk Rifles), Dean grabbed the kit from the Fal-files market place on my behalf and Neal, a fellow L1A1 nutter and co-conspirator/enabler on my varied inch pattern projects, imported it via his FFD connections and had it proofed for me.

The quality of the kit is superb, really beautifully made, I did have a few issues to deal with, first one, the liner wouldn't fit my L1A1's bore, so required a few slight adjustments.

The liner was sort of Teflon / park coated, before I very cautiously placed it in a bench jig, then with the full knowledge that I might just totally screw up the sole example of Rays work this side of the great pond ... using 2000 grade wet or dry with oil and then bore polish, I gradually reduced the diameter by the tiniest fraction, now when I say reduce, we are talking half the width of a gnats private parts here.

Now the liner fits snugly into the bore of my SP Enfield L1, I also had to cut away the hammer connecting arm from a spare safety sear, as the new bolt lacks the tripping extension of the original L12A1 bolt group.

All working very well now, pics and range report when my workload drops back a bit...

Cheers, John.

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