Junk shops finds

[tinbum]

Hi tinbum, could you make some space in your inbox . Been trying to pm you.

Kat

I'm just sooo popular!

Can anyone tell me anything about the pocket pistol? Is difficult or worthwhile to repair?

[lew07]

I'm just sooo popular!

Can anyone tell me anything about the pocket pistol? Is difficult or worthwhile to repair?

Did it cock and dry fire (carefully)? These pocket pistols have a large spring in the frame at the grip. Quite often they are missing or too weak to function because of their age.

[mikewareing]

Well if anyone is struggling, I have made several springs for pistols, it is quite easy.

[mikewareing]

I'm just sooo popular!

Can anyone tell me anything about the pocket pistol? Is difficult or worthwhile to repair?

Could be worth a repair but not at £80. That is about its value working.

[tacfoley]

While I was in Oregon last week I saw a 'repaired' Manton fowler in as-new condition for sale for $2500. The vendor had found the lock at a gun show - no cock,just the lock - and had replicated the rest of the gun using parts from 'The Rifle Shoppe' and other places. Every single part except the lock plate was new, and cost him around $1200 in total, including a Grade AAA stock.

Since it had Manton on the lockplate the proud vendor felt justified in calling it that.

tac

[1066]

Since it had Manton on the lockplate the proud vendor felt justified in calling it that.

Bit like rebuilding a Spitfire to flying condition when all you have to start with is a rusty tail wheel dredged up in a fishing net.

[tacfoley]

Bit like rebuilding a Spitfire to flying condition when all you have to start with is a rusty tail wheel dredged up in a fishing net.

Yup. I once admired a beautiful late-40s Lagonda drophead coupe that had been 'rebuilt' from a steering wheel and a complete set of hood irons.

tac

[davederrick]

I remember those cameras from back in the day, used to wholesale them. They were rubbish then

[harry mac]

Bit like rebuilding a Spitfire to flying condition when all you have to start with is a rusty tail wheel dredged up in a fishing net.

Isn't that pretty much what Guy Martin's team did with the Spitfire they built?

[Jerry Cornelius]

Isn't that pretty much what Guy Martin's team did with the Spitfire they built?

You mean the Duxford team that Guy Martin visited with a film crew ?

[1066]

Isn't that pretty much what Guy Martin's team did with the Spitfire they built?

Yes, I don't think there would have been anything usable other than the ID plate and some other small token to be able to claim it was a "restoration" rather than a new plane built from scratch.