Remember that puke-green Enfield Gunnar had?

I use spraybombs of Marhyde aerosol paint stripper. You should be able to find it at UAP or any other local automotive jobbers. Beats the heck out of messing around with a brush. Just hang it on a wire, slip on a rubber glove and hold the wire, spray the darned thing all over. Spraying it makes easy work of getting stripper into nooks and crannies. The last can I bought was around $8.00 here. Works awesome to strip urethane finishes off of milsurp wood too! I'd be interested in finding out about that "PH" stamp as well because I have an original full wood No1MkIII that has the marking in the same place. It's the only one I have ever seen other than yours with that "PH" on it.
Al
 
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Isn't PH a Parker Hale stamp ?...not sure myself
For all it's worth , why not just paint it with black bbq paint.
...and it's the receiver that's registered , wether it's complete ,with all the trigger mech's/barrel or not.
 
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Goldidig, I'll look into that Marhyde stuff - thanks for the tip. Watching the last of that green slime flow away will be a treat.

Timberlord, the black barbecue paint would be a solution of sorts, but not the one I'm looking for. I want that damned paint off, gone, absent from the gun. Once I'm done farting around with her, I plan on returning her to factory fresh, or as close as I can.

The BA/OA/FA/WA stamps are interesting to me - anyone have any idea what they mean? And the 10 sequentially numbered Australian acceptance stamps on the side of the receiver?

Dan
 
Nice! The green one! I was "admiring" that paint earlier. I'm pretty sure the 10 stamps are the amount of times someone kicked the ass of the guy with the can 'O green Tremclad. Sorry I can't help you with the other ones!
 
BA - Bathurst
OA - Orange
FA - Forbes
WA - Wellington

All of these were "feeder factories" to the main Lithgow plant, making parts that were assembled at Lithgow. Of note, the SLAZ on Australian furniture is from Slazenger, the tennis racket folks!

Cheers,

Neal
 
nelly said:
BA - Bathurst
OA - Orange
FA - Forbes
WA - Wellington

All of these were "feeder factories" to the main Lithgow plant, making parts that were assembled at Lithgow. Of note, the SLAZ on Australian furniture is from Slazenger, the tennis racket folks!

Cheers,

Neal
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Cool - so these bits may well be original to the rifle. Thanks for that.

Howzabout the MA on the trigger guard? And the big honkin' PH on the receiver under the bolt handle?
 
I also wish I could find out what the heck that PH stamp represents though, as mine is a full wood original 1918 Short Lee Enfield with matching numbers and it has the exact same stamp in exactly the same place. Not a book I have or any internet research has turned up anything on that stamp. I also asked a few fellow "Enfield nuts" on here, with no answers to the mystery as well. Dan, that MA is an inspector mark factory abbreviation that is quite common to see. I have an unissued, never fired 1942 Lithgow in my collection and it has the same MA marking in the same location as yours. No PH on that one though.
Al
 
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Dark Alley Dan said:
..well, here she is.
Here's where I'm headed:
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Where is the massive scope?
 
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