Any comments ?
Guisan.
Ok....June first so time for a new Swiss topic...
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Ok....June first so time for a new Swiss topic...
Any comments ?
Guisan.
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DuncaninFrance
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Cocking handles 
That's as far as I can go. So apart from the fact that they are broken what is it all about?
That's as far as I can go. So apart from the fact that they are broken what is it all about?Duncan
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"Many of those who enjoy freedom know little of its price."
You can't fix Stupid, but you can occasionally head it off before it hurts something.
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Maybe it's like:
Scene:
A pretty day at the rang. Fluffy is finishing the best string of his life when the bolt knob breaks off of Renata the 96/11.
Fluffy (shouting): "Nooooooo!"
The General appears out of thin air with a replacement knob.
Guisan: "Fear not, Fluffy, for I have you covered. Behold, new knobs for clumsy shooters such as yourself."
Fluffy (much relieved): "Meow!"
Guisan: "Indeed."
The End
How was that?
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A pretty day at the rang. Fluffy is finishing the best string of his life when the bolt knob breaks off of Renata the 96/11.
Fluffy (shouting): "Nooooooo!"
The General appears out of thin air with a replacement knob.
Guisan: "Fear not, Fluffy, for I have you covered. Behold, new knobs for clumsy shooters such as yourself."
Fluffy (much relieved): "Meow!"
Guisan: "Indeed."
The End
How was that?
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I have 2 of those.
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....but until the old one actually falls off it won't be replaced.
Don't overtighten the fixing bolt???
Joe
....but until the old one actually falls off it won't be replaced.
Don't overtighten the fixing bolt???
Joe
The original bolt knobs of the 1889 and 1911 rifles were made of hard rubber, also vulcanite or ebonite, it's a hard, moldable, polished dark colored (ranging from brown to black) early rubber.
Vulcanite was produced by adding sulfur to vulcanized rubber. Corrosion makes the screw that holds the knobs to expand causing the rubber to crack, later replacement knobs were first made of bakelite and now they are made of plastic with stainless steel screws.
Original vulcanite grips often carry the serial number of the rifle.
The same vulcanite was used to make the grips of the 1878 and early 1882 revolvers and the Vetterli 1878/87 bayonets that's why we find some of these with brown grips.
Guisan.
Vulcanite was produced by adding sulfur to vulcanized rubber. Corrosion makes the screw that holds the knobs to expand causing the rubber to crack, later replacement knobs were first made of bakelite and now they are made of plastic with stainless steel screws.
Original vulcanite grips often carry the serial number of the rifle.
The same vulcanite was used to make the grips of the 1878 and early 1882 revolvers and the Vetterli 1878/87 bayonets that's why we find some of these with brown grips.
Guisan.
Now that's an education. Wonder why they saw any advantage in the hard rubber, vulcanite or ebonite to begin with? Any advantage you can think of over metal?
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Well solid metal can be very cold especially high up near the gletchers in the swiss mountains where it's freezing so I think this was the best solution at that time.
The bolt knobs of the K31 are not solid for that reason and made of a different alloy as the bolt cam follower plate, the same goes for the Stgw57 and the Stgw90 has a rubber covered cocking handle.
Guisan.
The bolt knobs of the K31 are not solid for that reason and made of a different alloy as the bolt cam follower plate, the same goes for the Stgw57 and the Stgw90 has a rubber covered cocking handle.
Guisan.