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Evan
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Reged: 19/12/21
Posts: 32
Loc: British Columbia

Re: Lee Speed project
11/01/25 06:58 AM

Well we are into the 4th year of this project and its still coming along.

i couldn't get over the location of the rear sight and also the leaf sight was too low compared to the ladder sight (they were on the same plane) and i could see the ladder in the main sight when there isn't any leaves standing.

so i made a new base that pushes the sight back about 28mm, also the leaf sight is now 0.100" higher than the ladder sight.

this puts the rear sight back a bit and moves the ladder sight form being above the forend cap so make a cleaner look

i also got the parts ready for rust bluing, the barrel has all the solder cleaned off and the other parts are cleaned up and had the first stage degreasing done.

well, i got the sights fitted to the base, and the base fitted in the rib. I just hand filed the dove tails, they are 60*, i just use a triangle file with one side smoothed off on a diamond hone, so its cuts down to the very corner but doesnt cut the base any deeper.. the overhang of the dove tail are only 0.030" deep on each side, so it only takes a few minutes ot cut each side, i have a cutter for it but, it probably takes longer to set it up then to file them.

i also added 2 slot head screws under the folding sight, they are 6-32's. and I'm going to solder the base down as well but haven't done that yet.

i have a lot of pics of the same things, just different angles because I cant get it to look right in the pics, in person i really like it, in the pics it doesnt look as good.

the bottom 2 pics are the before and after they have a similar position/angle. i really like this new base a more, and it was worth the 9 hour setback (still need solder)

the very bottom pic is how i had the rear sight before.

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Lee Speed project	Evan	27/12/21 10:16 AM
Re: Lee Speed project	Evan	27/12/21 10:18 AM
Re: Lee Speed project	degoins	28/12/21 12:50 AM
Re: Lee Speed project	Hoot	28/12/21 02:28 AM
Re: Lee Speed project	Evan	28/12/21 06:00 AM
Re: Lee Speed project	Evan	28/12/21 06:09 AM
Re: Lee Speed project	Evan	28/12/21 06:14 AM
Re: Lee Speed project	93x64mm	28/12/21 07:39 AM
Re: Lee Speed project	Evan	28/12/21 12:41 PM
Re: Lee Speed project	DarylS	28/12/21 01:18 PM
Re: Lee Speed project	Bluenoser	27/02/22 08:50 AM
Re: Lee Speed project	Evan	18/04/22 03:42 AM
Re: Lee Speed project	kuduae	19/04/22 06:39 AM
Re: Lee Speed project	Evan	09/06/22 02:38 AM
Re: Lee Speed project	lancaster	10/06/22 03:49 AM
Re: Lee Speed project	Evan	10/06/22 05:22 AM
Re: Lee Speed project	Evan	20/05/24 04:27 AM
Re: Lee Speed project	Evan	20/05/24 04:31 AM
Re: Lee Speed project	93x64mm	20/05/24 06:22 AM
Re: Lee Speed project	Rule303	22/05/24 07:58 AM
Re: Lee Speed project	Evan	24/05/24 09:58 AM
Re: Lee Speed project	DarylS	24/05/24 11:07 AM
Re: Lee Speed project	93x64mm	25/05/24 05:24 AM
Re: Lee Speed project	Evan	11/01/25 06:58 AM
Re: Lee Speed project	lancaster	12/01/25 02:52 AM
Re: Lee Speed project	93x64mm	12/01/25 07:24 AM
Re: Lee Speed project	fjrdoc	12/01/25 09:59 AM
Re: Lee Speed project	DarylS	12/01/25 12:43 PM
Re: Lee Speed project	degoins	22/05/24 04:11 AM
Re: Lee Speed project	Evan	22/05/24 06:06 AM
Re: Lee Speed project	fjrdoc	20/05/24 06:16 AM
Re: Lee Speed project	93x64mm	09/06/22 06:57 AM
Re: Lee Speed project	DarylS	09/06/22 01:19 PM
Re: Lee Speed project	NitroX	09/06/22 03:11 PM
Re: Lee Speed project	NitroX	09/06/22 03:15 PM
Re: Lee Speed project	Evan	18/04/22 03:43 AM

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