Hi Rick,
Thanks for your kind comments re the clean up. As you say it's a great surprise to find nice bits under the crud. #2 also has some barrel brass work visible, and this time all the barrel bands are also brass. On #1 only the bands at each end are brass with the three middle bands being iron.
Thanks for the pan cover pics. Seems these bits easily fall off or maybe they are removed by the owner so as to facilitate fast shooting. Nothing would be more embarrassing (or fatal) than to pull the trigger on a closed pan! Still they are real easy to make...just some careful shaping to fit the pan.
Stu
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