Hi,

Apologies for not posting on here in a while. I do check in regularly, I just haven't had much to report lately gun and bayonet-wise.

However, I have a new mini project... You may recall me expressing in the past the desire to return my 1944 MkV Sten back to it's factory original appearance. Repro foregrips are easy to get (although less easy to fit...) but try as I might I cannot find a Mk2 barrel nut for sale that isn't in the USAicon.

A Plan B that has previously occurred to me is that you could make a lookalike by adding 3 extra holes to the front and rear of a Mk1 nut. The middle ones would be concealed when the foregrip was fitted.

However, I didn't want to do this unless I could find a scruffy and inexpensive Mk1 nut that I wouldn't feel guilty about irreversibly modifying. On Sunday I finally found one.

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So I wonder if I could tap into the collective metalworking / gunsmithing experience on here as to the best way of getting 6 extra holes in it that are exactly the right size and exactly equidistant between the existing ones? The challenge is that my kit consists of an electric hand drill and an indifferent vertical drill clamp.

Thanks for any help,
Mark
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