Some new things, lets play a guessing game

[browningautorifle]

Nice, mag mandrell for FN mags. L1, C1 or SLR...I guess would be correct. I forgot about you having the most extensive collection of FN stuff known...

[nzl1a1collector]

The magazine mandrel has a NZ NSN number engraved on it, so I think its something one of the Armourers made. Unfortunitly all these items were in a box that got leaked on hence the rough condition of some of them. They all came from Trentham and were auctioned off as a 'pallet lot of items', back around 1993. It would of been the last of the Armourers equipment to be disposed of.

[nzl1a1collector]

Can anyone ID these and give the written reference for them?

Don't worry about he 'gunge' its CRC Soft Seal to try and protect them from the heavy rusting.




ohhh crap that means I will have to did out the reference for them too.

[Peter Laidler]

No scale again. Gas block/cylinder reamer/cleaner?

Our magazine mandrill was in 3 parts. The left, right side and the centre part. You slipped the left and right sides in and then knocked the well oiled centre part down between them and in doing so, it pushed the dent out. So when the mag was straight and undented, you pulled the centre plate out and the sides came out cleanly. This was one of the better tools and I don't think that the Armourers made a better version of it

[nzl1a1collector]

The biggest one is 2 inches long

[browningautorifle]

Our magazine mandrill was in 3 parts.

Ours looked like this one except I think the bottom had a square block to grab in the vise. I find it almost unbelievable that this one was made by a tradesman but stranger things. Our armorers had to make many of their tools, the most common was the butt spring tool for the FN...I'm sure you guys remember.

[Bruce_in_Oz]

nzl1a1..etc...

Meat tenderizer for the post-exercise barbecue?

[nzl1a1collector]

The two 'baby' gauges are:

Gauge, Hinge Pin Hole (‘NO GO’)

Gauge, Trigger Mechanism Hinge Pin Hole (‘NO GO’)

These are the Mk. 1 gauges, the design was changed as there is an inherent fault with the design. They are designed to provide a 'NO GO' gauge for the Gas Block, Gas Plug Hole and the Hinge Pin Hole.





These are the Mk. 2 versions, both sets of gauges were to be made by the Armourers. Ohhh they are shown in the Australian EMEI, not the EMER

[nzl1a1collector]

Now for something I'm not sure about. At one stage it did have a tag, but that's long gone.

Armourers, put your thinking caps on........ this is as it seems, a 1 inch block of steel with a SLR gas piston welded into a hole in the base. Its a full length Gas Piston. What could this be used for in a Base Workshop ......... it might not of even been used with L1A1 rifles. Any and all ideas welcomed.

[Woodsy]

Quoits at smoko?