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I just acquired a prewar FLZ rifle and I just noticed a machined screw that was contoured to the tube to make it almost disappear except for the slot. Curious have any of you seen this in another airgun? I’m sure its not unique but I can’t remember seeing it anywhere?
Last edited by 45flint; 11-09-2022 at 01:02 AM.
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Very nice touch, on a very nice rifle.
I wonder why they didn't provide the same treatment to the other screws, too?
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A quality rifle indeed.
Another nice touch is the fact that the rear sight blade runs in a slot that is blind ( doesnt run all the way to the bottom of the base ), which is different to most of the other turret rear sight's that you see. Another mark of machining quality. I bet it was an expensive rifle in its day.
Very interesting thing.
Lakey
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that is a nice touch,any wear in the breech would need taking up with a shim.these look very nice rifles,top quality old school craftmanship.
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Look at the machining on the front sight, the little bevel on the post! Crazy detail that few would ever notice? Machining art.Originally Posted by Lakey
Last edited by 45flint; 11-09-2022 at 11:26 AM.
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Love the attention to detail. Very nice indeed.Look at the machining on the front sight, the little bevel on the post! Crazy detail that few would ever notice? Machining art.
Lakey
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I love those details too. Especially where the work is done on several planes - and so I imagine must be very complex to do without CNC hardware.
Such as this pre-WW1 Diana trigger block:
And the front sight on this postwar HW35 1st series.
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From an era when there was pride in your product rather than built to a price.Look at the machining on the front sight, the little bevel on the post! Crazy detail that few would ever notice? Machining art.
Standards of living for the working man being much poorer giving cheap labour helped enormously
It's Just a steel casting, like the prewar BSA units, or an old Williams /host of other makers .granted a nicely detailed one but not a machined part I would say personally, the skill would have been by the pattern / die maker.From an era when there was pride in your product rather than built to a price.
Standards of living for the working man being much poorer giving cheap labour helped enormously
The breech blocks on say militias and other older German stuff are also often forgings, giving various shapes which can't be got by machine tools in a sensible price / time, but hand finished in a time when time was cheaper to some extent.
In the 1920. a BSA Standard would be a weeks wages for a time served fitter / turner, so in todays money maybe £450-500 take home a week.
So looking at the bonkers prices of some top end PCP's and even TX's and Prosports, guns actually cost more now!
ATB, Ed
Last edited by edbear2; 14-09-2022 at 04:21 PM.
Probably just flashed over by linisher (after being tightened into the action) pre bluing, a simple and quick process if you think about it, means the screw needed to be kept in the action it fitted though afterwards.I just acquired a prewar FLZ rifle and I just noticed a machined screw that was contoured to the tube to make it almost disappear except for the slot. Curious have any of you seen this in another airgun? I’m sure its not unique but I can’t remember seeing it anywhere?
ATB, ED
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