maketracks,
Your gun is from 1938. Any good smith, familiar with A5's can find and fix the problem....
"Special Steel" (or "Acier Special" in French) is nothing but a marketing gimmick. When these guns were first made everyone had names for the type of steel as there were wide differences in quality.
After the first guns made of Cockerill Steel (Cockerill was a maker of steel) FN used the generic designation of Special Steel on all the A5's though it was just a name and they might have changed the steel dozens of times without disclosing it.
Jeff
Your gun is from 1938. Any good smith, familiar with A5's can find and fix the problem....
"Special Steel" (or "Acier Special" in French) is nothing but a marketing gimmick. When these guns were first made everyone had names for the type of steel as there were wide differences in quality.
After the first guns made of Cockerill Steel (Cockerill was a maker of steel) FN used the generic designation of Special Steel on all the A5's though it was just a name and they might have changed the steel dozens of times without disclosing it.
Jeff
