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Old 27-01-11, 01:13
Jesse Browning Jesse Browning is offline
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Default 25 pdr breech block

Is there any interest in a 25 pdr breech block? I don't expect to ever have need of it for my Sexton. Jesse.
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Old 27-01-11, 08:58
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Hello Jesse,

I've been watching your progress on the Sexton in silent awe. You are a man with many talents and skills. I do take my hat of to you for a perfect job almost done.
If I may give you some advice I would hold on to the breech block. There eventually comes a time you are going to sell the Sexton to a future generation of enthousiasts. That breech block will be very hard to replace by that time. Just keep it as it doesn't eat bread, as we say in Holland.
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Old 27-01-11, 09:25
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Hi Jesse,
I know it would cost a mint to freight it to Australia, though seamail would be the cheapest, so what do you want for it. Do you have the striker case/firing pin bit?
I have 2 x 25pdrs and am in need of a breech block and striker case.
Thanks Rick.
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Old 27-01-11, 23:42
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Hi Jesse,
Do you have the striker case/firing pin bit?
I have 2 x 25pdrs and am in need of a breech block and striker case.
Thanks Rick.
Hi Rick,

I'm after the striker box for my 6 Pdr and have a 25 Pdr striker box for exchange. Maybe you have the one I need or can get one?

Cheers,
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Old 28-01-11, 00:56
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Rick; All I have are the parts in the picture. Jesse.

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Old 28-01-11, 14:55
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I concur with the posting above about keeping. We are only temporary caregivers of this artifacts. In twenty years someone will come along and offer you a price or a trade that will let you eat a notch higher on the foodchain. That 70 yr old part in the spares bin now might be absolutely irreplaceable in another few years. I don't collect bayonets with my guns, but if it comes with one at a good price I won't refuse it.
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Old 30-01-11, 00:39
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It looks like the concensus is for me to keep it. I had originally planned to make tha gun gas fired, and will probably still do that. I don't have the money for a new barrel, and the rest of the breech parts. I also don't want to deal with the governments reqirement for owning a live gun. I will build something that looks like the complete assembly, but does not fire projectiles. Jesse.
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