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  1. 23-03-2018, 04:18 PM #1
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    Wow, John! That's incredible workmanship from a non-engineering pofessional. I'm not surprised this is the 'sanitised' version.

    Thank you for going to the trouble of describing the process in this detail.
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    Excellent!

    Fascinating stuff John, I'd have happily read through every single stage of production.

    Thanks for sharing it and taking the time to document it.

    I'll have to look up your previous projects!


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    Awesome job !!
    Thank you for sharing the details, process, and finished product pictures.
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    Hello John,

    Thanks for taking the time and effort to comprehensively document both the manufacture and performance of this fascinating little pistol.

    I know you are a very busy man with many projects no doubt queuing for your attention, but maybe a short publication devoted to modern reproductions of prototype or experimental air pistols could find a place at some time in the future. I imagine you document the process as you go through the various stages, so maybe much of the preparatory work may already have been completed.

    Thinking about it, maybe the best place would be in the relevant section of a re-issued Encyclopedia of Spring Air Pistols which would no doubt be very much in demand.

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    Thanks for your interesting suggestion Brian. Certainly food for thought. There are just two pre-1950 non-commercialised vintage British spring air pistol designs remaining for me to tackle, and if I can complete these successfully then I would feel reasonably qualified to write something that could be published. One patent is by Lincoln Jeffries and the other by Frank Clarke Lead Products (probably intended to be their Thunderbolt Senior), and I have made a start on the first already.

    Then of course there are the American patents. Enough to keep me going until my lathe packs in!

    Once the workshop has lost its appeal then it will be back to writing my second edition (full colour) of the ESAP.

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