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| 08/03/24 12:32 PM |
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Re: Westley Richards take-down mannlicher
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Steve, talking purely technically, when you engage the bayonets' into the female portion of the assemble, in the received and rotate the barrel 1/4 turn, is the engagement such that the Barrel shoulder is pulled back against the receiver? If yes how is this accomplished? I mean are the matching surfaces of the male and female lugs fitted at an angled matching surfaces causing them to wedge together and draw the draw back into the receiver?
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LRF, no tapers involved but yes, the shoulder is drawn to the action. This one was just the tiniest bit loose,not enough to worry about really. I very slightly swaged the shoulder and it is very tight now.
Steve
From an engineering standpoint cams would not work on an action where the sights need to maintain the vertical unless there was an additional take up device such as a threaded ring or some such affair that would provide take-up and then allow the cams to tighten w/o turning the barrels.
This was the reason I asked above if there is any wobble. There appears to be no mechanism or design feature included to take up wear while maintaining proper sight/barrel alignment.
It's interesting that there was a tiny bit of play. Based on what appears to be the design that would be nature of the beast and something with no simple fix.