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[charlie fitton]

'pins'

show us the underside of the brass near the knurled wheel..or all of it...please.

(please because I dont want to be boiled...)

[Barry J. Cox]

Sorry I'm not understanding what you mean by "underside of the brass near the knurled wheel" etc.

Do you mean the underside of the sight, or something else?

Because there are no pins in/on the sight save for a small one holding the knurled wheel to the threaded shaft, and which is some distance from the point where I believe things may not have been fully assembled.

I'm unable to successfully load pics. Will get my son to figure it out again today or tomorrow.

Barry

[Ron Pier]

Barry. Here is a close up of where it fits. Does this comply with your Aust version? Ron

[Barry J. Cox]

Ron and Charlie:

Ron's pic shows the same configuration on the mount as mine.

The two holes are actually threaded for the screws to attach the T shaped square-stock piece which holds the sight in the slot.

Will try to get pics posted shortly.

Happy New Year!

Barry

[Barry J. Cox]

Reasonably certain it is on my end, but I simply cannot get pictures to load to this forum with any regularity. In spite of many attempts.

In the event, I finally bit the bullet and cut the horizontial screw where it meets the part at the left end, as shown in the previously posted pics. Then bored that part and rethreaded it. Turns out the thread is 1/4-28, which is the US National Fine series.

Then found that the head on the right end was slightly too large to fit within the lips of the main body when screwed into the new thread. Also when I chucked it in the lathe the head was not truly round on the major diameter. Easily turned to fit in only about four steps.

All of which leads me to believe the headed screw was a replacement which was meant to be carefully hand fitted, but was not.

Reminded me of my first experience with hand fitting factory parts, that being the rather large center section of the bonnet of a '67 XK-E. Really loved that vehicle...

Thanks to all,

Barry