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Chris,





The British no-go gauge is .074" which is about 1.878mm - so the CLLE is probably just fine (Enfields are quite safe even over this headspace).





If you look at the other forums, they are full of American C&R Enfield owners looking for "longer" boltheads - its because they are using the wrong gauges and also believing a lot of exagerration about headspace criticality!





I have looked at about 20x 2A1s, and I have come to the conclusion that they are not made of "special steel" or "new" components - many of them clearly have recycled No1MkIII parts, some with British marks on them!





L42 (and 4(T)) pads do work loose over time - often the solder gradually turns to powder, which allows the screws to slacken. Unfortunately, its quite a skilled job to refurbish the pads: they have to be soft-soldered to the rifle, the solder depth has to be got just right (otherwise the scope alignement goes), then the pads have to be removed and refitted, with the screws being inserted whilst the wsolder is still hot. Apparently! I had Fultons do my L42, and they did a good job - I've seen other rifles really botched up by gunsmiths who didn't know the tecnique...

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Hello brewstop!





The problem is not that we are using the wrong gauges, the problem is tht the proofe house does! Only CIP dimensions are legal, everything other than that is imposible.


I know, that the military gauges are of other dimension, but if you take a gun to the proofe house here, they use CIP gauges and this CLLE WILL fail this check and so it will not be proofed.


The rifle is safe, you know that, I know that, but if it is not proofed by the proofe house a non collector can not have it. That is the law here.





The L42 will get new screws, but no solder, here are no gunsmiths that can doo that. The pads will be glued with a industrial metal glue, better than any solder.





BTW, did you go after the Enforcer? It is still there!!!!!





Chris

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