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    Quote Originally Posted by archer24 View Post
    The way it was explained to me, in a article in Airgun World I think was.
    Each piece that had to be unique to the gun, body, screw in spring guide, trigger guard and barrel catch, were put together pre bluing.
    Then machined to fit, then stamped with a batch number, taken apart and send for bluing.
    When they got back the batch number was used by the assemblers to identify which parts went together.
    This is why buying these bits are a lottery on how well they fit.
    That makes sense. Thanks for that.

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    Isn't there anyone around that used to work at Webley to give us the definitive answer?
    The South of England has 2 good things, the M1 and the A1. Both will take you to Yorkshire.

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