Making my own Lee Enfield transit box

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Hi all

Since you seem to like projects, here is one I'm making. I found some plans of a Lee Enfield transit box, and I decided to make my own. I have some maple boards in the wood rack, so I planned them to about 5/8 thickness.

I'm having difficulties with photobucket, so I'll come back later with more pics. Anyway, here is one of the dovetailing, with a 303 case so you have an idea of the size...

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Anybody who wants a set of hardware can PM me. I did the right thing a few years ago and salvaged the metal parts from a half-pallet of really rotten and ugly ones. PM me for availability.

As for the real thing, the dovetails were straight mortise and tenon.
 
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maple leah eh...is you hardware from CNo7 transit chests or No4T British? There are a few differences for the purist at heart.
 
Canadian CNo7 chests

rgg_7 said:
maple leah eh...is you hardware from CNo7 transit chests or No4T British? There are a few differences for the purist at heart.
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Cana'jan, eh? And yes there are differences, but those factories have been closed for 66-65 years. Beggars can't be choosers.
 
This is the drawing I'm using. I'm not pretending to do an exact replica, just a solid box based on the original. I had to addapt size to the wood I have.
 
Small progress, need to trim the dovetail and then I'll move to the bottom, interior stuff, and lid

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And I'm going to shoot the Lee Enfield this weekend, first time I'll try it since the full-wood conversion....cannot wait !
 
Here are some more. Nice thing is that I can fit a couple of boxes of ammo under the Lee

I hope you appreciate this small project of mine.

Dovetail in maple are hard to do, but I'm getting good

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And here is a view of the inside, front panel removed to see inside

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Lookin' Good, I like your dovetails ( good work). I've been debting on building a chest and I've been googling,I've seen different joints on the boxes.On the CHEST -No.4 Mk.1 T drawing it shows 1" pitch on the drawing.On the web its shows two different joints ,one dovetail is different then the 1" pitch and a straight joint like a finger joint. So, different factories or for different countries???
 
JacquesT said:
Admirable work...inspiting!
Have you considered making projects for more rare objects...like Ross forestocks etc...Ross transit box if such thing existed?
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Thanks for the comment. and no, I did not consider anything else. Main reason I bought the Lee Enfield is that it was the gun we used in the "Guard" for drill when I was in the Sea cadet long ago, and I don,t know anything about the Ross. I could do something if I had one...
 
rgg_7 said:
maple leah eh...is you hardware from CNo7 transit chests or No4T British? There are a few differences for the purist at heart.
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I once read somewhere that the hardware used in the no 7 and No 4 T transit boxes is identical. What is the difference? I have also noted that there was a variety of spacing used in the finger joints on the four corners of the box, some boxes I have seen are 5/16 inch, but pictures I took of the no 4 t boxes years ago appear to have 1/2 inch spacing. Anyone have some measurements of the fingers on the corners of their boxes?
 
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