Chris Hall

I saw this and thought someone may need one. http://westland.nl/product/mbr

Theres a 108 Reg RAC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/108th_Regiment_Royal_Armoured_Corps

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Could have been a Trojan AVRE (Not the type that comes in a packet and ribbed)

The CPS won't take people to court over foreign deacs because if they lose, they will open the flood gates to all signatry countries. So there prefered option is for the Police to make it really hard work for the individual, they threaten legal action and suggest that if you surrender the item, they will take it no further. I over heard a conversation with Rytons who stated that they have been asked to collect many confiscated deacs from Dover Police and alter them to UK spec and have them UK proofed. The individual concerned then has had no action taken against him, even though the Police claim he/they was/were in posesion of a restricted item. As yet, no one has had the big cahoonas to challenge them. How many people know that the official DP SLR can be owned without being deactivated? One owner went to court over his example, and he had the assistence of a wel known British Armourer, the same Armourer who helped design the spec for these DP SLRs (I can't remember the L?A? designation). After the court was told that the rifle was altered beyond what is required for deactivation, the case was dismissed. Now this only applies to genuine DP SLRs and not any kind of dealer knock ups.

Are your shoes good or completly wrong? The bush is nothing fancy, a good lathe and mill can knock one up. I may have a few other soloutions too, the WD/C and post war model G with ally brake plate used bush part number 26836 which HC have used for £5. I can see how this type compares to the steel plate version if you like? Or, the WD/C rear wheel cam bush for the steel plate, part number 27980 is £9 from HC, this is almost the same as the front bush, it just needs trimming down which you can do on a lathe or mark it out and file the excess off. I can get dimensions in the day light if it helps? Royal Enfield just loved to reuse and modify parts, even the Post war 1950s Model J 500cc used a WD/CO rear wheel with a extra bit for the rear wheel speedo drive. I've modified 3 post war J wheel hubs and a Meteor hub (A little more work involved with the Meteor hub) for the WD/CO.

Where on earth are the screws from? Dont tell me the pads were held on with screws? Or is it the bolts that hold the brake cam bush? The 2 brake shoes are the same, I can only guess that Hitchcocks list a left and a right because they sell an alternative part as there are no originals available.

Well you learn somthing new everyday! Cheers.

I guess they could be spirit measures from the Sgts or Officers mess

It looks like its had a match sight fitted, and quite crudely too. If you strip it down, you must remove the forstock before you remove the butt as the but screw has a square end and this fits into the back of the forstock. If you try and fit or remove the bolt with the forstock fitted, the square end acts like a cam and will split the forstock.

Being a Union of South Africa rifle theres a good chance that the barrel and therefor rear sight are from another rifle. Have a look on the underside of the sight and see if there is a serial number. If there is, this would have matched the action, as would the barrel to the action and sight.

LSA production continued to make the MkIII rather than the MkIII*, possibly as they were quite a small producer. Also some Enfield and BSA actions still had the slot for the cut off but the cut off wasn't installed. Some time post WW1, some of these rifles were converted to MkIII and the * barred out. As for the STEN Mk2, the serial number can help identify production time frame and the assembler, I'd wager it has a F? ???? serial number in which case it will be a ROF Fazakerly assembled gun. Another way of determining a very rough time frame is if it uses 2BA screws to retain the trigger mech dust cover or if it uses the dimpled type cover. I posted the exact date the change happened previously and I can't remember it now, some time in late 1942 I think it was. S245 is a manufacturers code but for who I can't remember, its not Elkington as that is M78 (M being midlands, S South and N north).

I don't need to speek Korean to know what the presenter/driver was saying when he saw the Cobra crash!!

That relic is on a old range which people think is disused but it still has the occasional use. I did some dems on Harrier ejection seat carts about 6 years ago, I had a look at the wreck and theres not much left of it. I dont even know what it was, the EOD guys there reckoned it was known as a Churchill but even I could tell it wasn't. If I remember correctly I think it had either a 4 cylinder or V8 engine (Its been a while). If anyone wants to have a look at it, its on Theddlethorpe range, and can be seen on google earth as a rectangle and is quite obvious once you see it.

Errrr, Ancaster and Grantham are both in Lincolnshire. Theres also a FV432 (I think its a 432) at Baytree garden centre at Spalding

Post up some photos and we can tell you what right and wrong.

its funny how the popular topics do the rounds, this appeared on the lee enfield association website and the milsurps website. I linked to a website about AJ Parkers a few weeks back and now its on every forum going.

Can I get a sniper rifle app too?

I remember the episode, the computer calculated the changes in wind speed between the rifle and target and then gave an offset for the scope. It was quite impressive.

Woops, what I meant to say was the Aussies and the Canadians had full auto SLRs in the L2A1 and C2A1. I wanted to get one of the L2A1s a few years back when they were cheap but I bought Brens instead, then they all dried up and I see there is a new batch come up for sale but dissapointingly they are L1A1 bodies with L1A1 flash hiders.

Peter Laidler keeps reminding us that the L2A1 (Like the LSW) was like a boy trying to do a mans job. If you want to do it right, get the LMG.

Both the Aussies and the Canadians had full auto SLRs. The FN FAL is the original concept that many other nations modified to fit their own requirements. The Aussies and the Brits had the L1, the Indian I think was the 1A1 I think, the Canadians the C1, the South Africans the R1, the Argies had the FM, the Brazilians the Imbel Fal, the Austrians had the StG 58 and a s**t load more. The phrase SLR appears to now be used to highlight the diference between a Imperial FAL and the Metric FAL, Imperial being the L1 and possibly C1 (Not sure on the C1 but I assume its imperial, and the indian being a mix of both Metric and Imperial)

It was a triring job, the Iraqi Fire Brigade had a recovered stockpile of 155mm and 120mm shells at their Barracks in Al Amarah town. We were sent to collect them and a couple of dozen AK47s/74s. The Aks were nowhere to be found (Funny thing) but in the courtyard, strewn everywhere, were the shells. We started to load a few into a Warrior and then I noticed the weight of one appeared to shift and when i rocked it (Yes it was heavy) I could feal a liquid sloshing around. We checked all the shells and seperated into piles. Pretty much all the 120mm Grey rounds sloshed, none of the 120mm Green rounds sloshed and neither did the 155mm. So, we tried to determine what the Grey 120mm shells were but as the markings had all gone, we couldn't be sure. The decision was made that if they were suspect (We were begining to think they were chemical shells) we would leave them, come up with a plan of action, and return for them. In total there were 120 155mm HE shells and 200 120mm Shells of HE and unknown contents, we returned to base and the RLC IED Officer that shared the 'House' with us did some research and came back with an idea that they may be Phos shells and that the extreme heat had caused them to liquidise. He suggested that we should return in the early hours of the morning and see if they still sloshed, and that if they didn't, the early morning would also make it easier on the troops as 2 people had already gone down with heat exhaustion. We returned at 4 a.m. with 4 Warriors and managed to remove about 1/2 the shells (The Warriors were full). We used the 155 HE to boost the detonation on what was confirmed as being 120mm shells (Alot of relieved people) and the resulting day break dem was probably the best I've witnessed.

Much rather have the L9, I've been using them for 18 years so I'm comfortable with it, it was my sidearm in Iraq and it never let me down. I've used the Glock and the Sig and they were fine, but just not for me, I used a civilian .50 IMI for a while (Back when they were legal) but it was too expensive and far too big.

Seeing those 155mm HE shells takes me back to Iraq and trying squeeze 120 of them into Warriors, the crew really, really wern't to happy about it!