Back from the brink
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Topic: Back from the brink
Posted By: Frameman 1
Subject: Back from the brink
Date Posted: August 07 2019 at 4:23pm
a few days of cleaning, black enamel removal, cold blueing. Wood crack repair. And minor refinish repairs is now worth the effort. 
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Posted By: Bear43
Date Posted: August 08 2019 at 5:40am
| It certainly cleaned up nice. The Indian rifles do have a lot of that black paint slathered on them and it can be hard to remove. Have you shot it yet? |
Posted By: Frameman 1
Date Posted: August 08 2019 at 6:36am
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I’ll be doing that this afternoon. I’m hoping it’s fairly accurate with the 18.8” barrel. The faux Jungle Carbine work was done before I got it. Nonetheless I enjoyed the process.
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Posted By: Goosic
Date Posted: August 08 2019 at 9:59am
| Gibbs Rifle Co. Typically was the one that made the NoIMkIII* Jungle Carbine. I personally like the look alot. Nice rifle sir. |
Posted By: Frameman 1
Date Posted: August 08 2019 at 11:01am
| Thank you. Hard work pays off. |
Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: August 08 2019 at 6:15pm
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very nice , you got a keeper there the ausies made the real NoIMkIII* Jungle Carbine or no 6 in 303 but in so few numbers that they are one of the rarest to find and very expensive ,
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Posted By: Frameman 1
Date Posted: August 09 2019 at 12:38am
Yeah! Just like fake boobs, their not real but are still fun to look at and touch.
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Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: August 10 2019 at 7:06pm
| there ya go |
Posted By: shiloh
Date Posted: August 11 2019 at 10:32am
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I was thinking of doing an Aussie No6 mkI, I know where there is a nice Lith Go sporter that would make an excellent donor, but with out paying a machinist big bucks to fab unique parts associated with these trial rifles it`d just be another chopped smle with a no5 muzzle device. Parts referred to, unique flash hider with bolt on protector ears, rear aperture sight dove tailed into charger bridge/charger bridge re configured or remade to accommodate said sight, and or a rear flip up sight like the No4/5 singer type, plus the attachment point, drilling out bolt knob, lightening receiver and thinning the trigger guard, about all I could do would be the wood work
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Posted By: Frameman 1
Date Posted: August 11 2019 at 11:12am
| You’re right! That job would require not only real tools but real skills. I’m sure you can find that person but at what price. |
Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: August 11 2019 at 8:05pm
| it would be an undertaking for the younger than i but i think a sporter doaner would be the way to go and if i were younger i might think about it , |
Posted By: Frameman 1
Date Posted: August 11 2019 at 8:15pm
| Young or old isn’t the major issue, it’s the knowledge that is the determining factor. |
Posted By: shiloh
Date Posted: August 12 2019 at 4:01pm
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When you consider that these were basically re worked Auzzie No1`s, thats easy, whats not is having a well equipt`d shop like the lithgow shop must have been. Give a guy a drawing and ask him to bang out a couple hundred.... Now a-days a cnc shop would probably charge you a few hundred dollars just to do a one-off.
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Posted By: Frameman 1
Date Posted: August 12 2019 at 4:04pm
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Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: August 12 2019 at 8:35pm
| agreed - the shop is the key ,the time is the next part , life happens while we are making plans |