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   airforcediver, I dont need any boltheads, I have lots to choose from. From what I believe, long boltheads for the No4 are hard to come by over there.
In England there is a company called Enfield Lock. It is run by a couple of ex apprentices from the Royal Small Arms Enfield factory. They produce a few new parts for the Enfields including new wood. 
These blokes have done the sums on tooling up to make bolt heads and it was not worth the cost of setting up.
If you have been told the rifle has been beefed up be very careful, The Enfield action is fairly soft and heat treating it may make it stronger but by how much? who knows.
The hardest part of the Lee Enfield is the locking lug area.
Keep your pressures within the specs.

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Lithgow Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: October 25 2005 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 1417	Post Options Post Reply Quote Lithgow Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: January 18 2009 at 6:01pm
	airforcediver, I dont need any boltheads, I have lots to choose from. From what I believe, long boltheads for the No4 are hard to come by over there. In England there is a company called Enfield Lock. It is run by a couple of ex apprentices from the Royal Small Arms Enfield factory. They produce a few new parts for the Enfields including new wood. These blokes have done the sums on tooling up to make bolt heads and it was not worth the cost of setting up. If you have been told the rifle has been beefed up be very careful, The Enfield action is fairly soft and heat treating it may make it stronger but by how much? who knows. The hardest part of the Lee Enfield is the locking lug area. Keep your pressures within the specs.

airforcediver Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: November 12 2008 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 519	Post Options Post Reply Quote airforcediver Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: January 19 2009 at 8:31am
	No Worries Lithgow, there aren't super easy to get here but there are a couple places that have'em. Lithgow is right about the hardening thing, depending on how they heat treated it, it may take a higher pressure, but then again on the flip side it may now be to hard. With increasing the pressure you run the risk of failure, but of a disastrous kind, where instead of banana peeling to relieve the pressure, it may literally explode in your face. AFD
	If all else fails call in a MOAB and call it a day