Quote Originally Posted by Epicyclic View Post
It's been nickle-plated all over Danny. There are a few areas where it's thinning, near the tap it's bubbling a bit. I had the action from the stock this morning and found flake-away patches by the cocking lever slot. These are concealed by the stock when assembled.
The quality of the plating is very high and IMHO it's a factory finish. I don't recall anything like this ever so it could be a good 'home-brew', -if so, it would have been such a faff to prep everything for the tank- sight parts, trigger guard, cap, tap and parts, lever parts...I can imagine this happening in the factory when the metal was fresh but not on a used gun that you'd have to take back. You'd not do this to a new purchase either!...
My dilemna now is whether or not to plate the 'Satelite dish' BSF diopter sight that is to be fitted!...
Well spotted it just looked polished up to me looking at the photo's. A good buy.