Rifle clips / mounts, standard design?

[Michael R.]

Originally Posted by ajmac

Were .303 vehicle rifle clips a standard design or did they differ with every vehicle? I wondered if I need to fabricate replacement for my Loyd carrier front plate or if I can search out a NOS pair for a more common vehicle.

Are your original clips leather covered? Not riveted in place, but perhaps sewn over the spring steel portion? The Canadian Universal Carrier production lined the spring steel with leather, which was copper riveted in place. An assortment of clip sizes and shapes can be observed on the C31UCW NO-2 MK-II* carrier, depending on the weapon stowage. From front clip size for Sten barrel, to shoulder stock size for the BREN.

[BCA]

CMP vehicle clips #1 and #2 were both rubber covered and look similar to the clips in Alastair's original photo. Carrier clips typically had rivetted leather rub strips.

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

If you can find originals without the rubber you can clean them up and coat with a vinyl goop available in hardware stores. It works surprisingly well.

[Ganmain Tony]

Originally Posted by Bruce Parker

If you can find originals without the rubber you can clean them up and coat with a vinyl goop available in hardware stores. It works surprisingly well.

Bruce,

Do you happen to know the name of said goop?

Have got some clips on my truck that need doing.

[Tony Smith]

Bunnings sells Plasti-Dip.

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Ganmain Tony

Bruce,

Do you happen to know the name of said goop?

Have got some clips on my truck that need doing.

This is from a few years ago but I've seen it or a similar product in the local hardware as recently as this week.

[rob love]

Back when we could order the CMP clips from the Cdn supply system, I did see someone get some leather ones mixed in with the typical rubber ones.

[Ganmain Tony]

Bruce and Tony,

Thank you very much. I reckon I might give it a go.

That's interesting Rob, so either/or could have finished up on a carrier/truck in service..??