CaptainBeaky

From Sportsman Gun Centre in Exeter.

Bit pricy - paid £9.46 a box for black standards 2 weeks ago.

Roughtrax are pretty good for Toyota spares as well. Don't know how prices compare with Milners.

They mean the Brocock system, which was banned due to the alleged ease of conversion to live cartridge use.

30 on Monday night by self and no1 son off the pickup with the shotguns. 1768

I have heard that deWalt, Black& Decker and Stanley (who own the other two) power tools, are now all the same, just different colours :( according to a guy who stocks spares for all of them.

Great thread, this. I'm playing "logical fallacy bingo" - reckon I'll have a full house before we hit 10 pages...

Corby bolts have a specific drill bit for each size, You drill the initial holes through the scales to match the holes in the tang, then counterbore with the Corby bit to fit the heads of the bolts into the tang. It's like a stepped bit, with a plain header, giving you a square bottom to your counterbore, giving the maximum contact between bolt head and scale.

Nice job

When this was up last time, there were a couple of close up photos of the locks - might have a better chance of selling with some better photos... How was "average" calculated in this instance? Enquiring minds and all that

Yes...

Welcome! Whereabouts in Kent are you?

My MP153 was like this when I bought it - the mag tube looked like it had never seen a cleaning kit, the corrosion had gone through the (very thick) chrome, and the corrosion was eating into the tube, to the point where the gas seal was getting damaged. The owner had screwed the adjustment way in to compensate for the pressure loss.New mag tube and seal put on, although to be fair you couldn't tell anything was amiss as it still cycled anything you out through it. Ok, so I'm fussy... Yes, lack of cleaning and corrosion is a more likely culprit than "melting the tube". The gases aren't *that* hot.

Yes, been to the Ivybridge Gunroom before for clays and cartridges. Nice shop

It is full 4wd, but with the centre diff unlocked. You also have the option of high range 4wd with the centre diff locked, and low range 4wd, again with the centre diff locked.

Extra info: This will be the 3rd generation Surf, which has improved gearbox cooling, and a 4wd system you can use all the time, even on hard roads, as it has a centre differential. Lovely trucks!

Thanks! Ashcombe looks well worth a visit, and it's cheaper than my local Not too far away either.

Hi Scully Thanks B) The rail is actually there to mount a case-deflector for lamping from a vehicle (so the cases land in the bed of the pickup). This may be coming off again, as I may mount the deflector plate direct onto the receiver using the Weaver mounting screws (now I have found out what size hex key to use ) No1 son is badgering to have a go at PSG, so I will probably try it sooner or later - being only 4 miles from the nearest PSG club helps here! The bolt handle was more because I am missing the last joint of my right index finger, and the original bolt handle was a bit harsh on either the stump or my little finger, and the bolt release was, well, just because... Interesting project, and good to get back into making things on a lathe again. And yes, go and try one! They're not pretty, but they are a good tool.

Yeah, we've done a bit of fly-fishing down there with a friend who is a keen angler. Didn't catch anything, but a very pleasant way to spend an afternoon

Having made an oversize bolt handle, I set to making an oversize bolt release, as the original is specced for the same gorilla who does the stock bolts up at the factory... There wasn't enough metal in the original button to tap, so I turned up a replacement from my stock of silver steel, but made the foot bigger to change the leverage. The release lever is dural, held on with an M3x0.5 cap-head screw., the general design being lovingly ripped off from Vitaly Kruchin's gun, as here : MP153 fast loading video These are available in Russia, but like the fabled factory magazine extensions, they don't get exported at all due to the vagaries of Russian firearms laws. I've shot with it a couple of times, and it seems to work very well, with a sharp nudge of the lever dropping the bolt, rather than the normal "training for the World Thumb-Wrestling Championship" effort. The mark 1 version, as it turned out, didn't have quite enough threads in the button to stay tightened up, so I made up a mark 2 button, this time drilling out the spring cavity with a end-reamer to give a square end to the hole, and hence greater centre thickness than with a normal conical drilled hole. This one has stayed tight. Next, the case deflector...

I will be heading off to South Devon with No 1 son on holiday in the near future - does the PW hive-mind know of any clay shoots in the Kingsbridge/Salcombe/Totnes area?

Yup, sound weird, but works - I watched our mech supervisor at work undo a seized 3" pipe union using a 2lb hammer and his hands. Couldn't shift it with a 3 foot Stilson, but came off just by clouting it and turning by hand!

That really is an excellent piece of work!

Hmmmm... On the way down to South Hams on holiday - know the route pretty well, and use the sat nav just to give an idea of eta, and as an accurate speedo. Anyway... Missed my junction off the A38 due to darkness and persisting rain, so took the next junction, thinking say nav would get me back on track. Not so: it insisted that I took a left turn onto a farm track across a ploughed field. I'm fairly sure my truck would have got across, but wasn't convinced it was actually a right of way! Had to resort to navigating by seat of the pants/using the Force. Bizarrely, the ETA was still bang on...