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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter Laidlericon View Post
    Any decent blacksmith should be able to anneal, harden and then temper your old mainspring. We used to make them when we were apprentices.
    That's interesting. I know you guys had to make things from scratch but not that.
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    Springs etc etc were one of our basic bread and butter items during the workshop processes and materials phase where you did the basic theory and basics during your first year. But then used what you'd learned during the next two years. Then promptly forgot it all! But, alas, within the next 2 years following your apprenticeship, while you were let loose in the real world, you had to go on your 17 week first class course where you'd have to show them that not only had you not forgotten all you'd learned as apprentices - but you'd been honing up your skills too. I did the first bit of that at Bandiana and the second bit at 40 Base Workshop with a couple of other Armourers, Lauri Taggart from Castlemaine and Johnny Dudley from the pineapple land of Queensland. What a palava.... Bench fitting...... the new AR15's we were armed with.....

    (great blokes too.... I wasn't familiar with the state abbreviations in Oz at first, and when I asked John where/what NT was, he replied 'No Trees!)

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