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Yes. Wrapping it up!
You can always get some wire and wrap it. That will hide the crack forever. Find a grenade launcher and pretend it was meant to be. What a great solution!
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You can always get some wire and wrap it. That will hide the crack forever. Find a grenade launcher and pretend it was meant to be. What a great solution!
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I was waiting for someone to say that.
I could always fabricate a collar like some of those Ishapore GF rifles!
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I've not had that experience either with old dry furniture fixes or a couple of stock repairs.
My biggest gripe is the "foaming", but once you know its coming, you're ready for it. Yes you do have to wrap, compress or secure it somehow, but that's just learning to work with the product.
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I got it disassembled today, the crack does not come out either end. But the screw is slightly bent. I'll get pics tomorrow.
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It is made in brown.😛
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It would hide the ring shank nail repairs from the 'Mountain Top Hadji Shop'.
Waiting for DDogs verdict. A hunch being just a hunch, I'm starting to guess transit damage.
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he posted up some pics, may have been in another part of the forum you were invited too,,,,,, when he received it, that showed that it was likely transit damage, or the poor packaging made what was there a bit worse
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That's about the gist of it. When there is enough free space for the rifle to move around and poke through the box, that says it was packed poorly from the get-go. It can't be ruled out as a possible contributing factor to the damage. Consider just the muzzle - poking through indicates the muzzle was not wrapped or protected, nor was the box reinforced at the muzzle end. IMO that's all the proof needed to place the burden on the seller.
Regardless of that, here we are.
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Well, the K98k guys tell themselves that when the rifles were surrendered the bolts were separated , for safety, and when the GIs wanted to grab a souvenir they picked a rifle from one pile and a bolt from another. Still original... from the same pile that is....
Kinda hard to do that with a buttstock on an Enfield...
Kinda hard to do that with a buttstock on an Enfield...
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slight difference,
98's and 1903's were made to have parts interchange,
as in bolt breaks, grab another, headspace, and move on,
no fiddling with the bolt head indexing etc etc, basically plug in play,
not the same on an Enfield
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Well it seems we can, since that's exactly what's happening! 🤣😃😘
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I’m thinking the evidence is that butt destruction certainly occurred in transit.
Bite the bullet, off to Numrich and buy a bolt and butt.
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......or spread the story about running out of ammo in a fire fight and having to finish off the last one with the butt.
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Ok I had a thought about another way to repair it.......How about boring out the bolt hole and gluing in a metal tube (or piece of pipe ? ) for strength and gluing and clamping the crack closed? it might be both strong and invisible...just a thought.....
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Are you forgetting about the shoulder inside the through hole? Then there's the little things like making sure the door functions and losing the stowage for the pullthrough weight. By that time the thought of slapping a buttstock on it doesn't sound so bad. it leans closer to being correct than the repairs to save a marking.
Your method is certainly a good way to repair old wooden lamps though
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