Are there any photos and/or drawings of the Mann-Niedner firing pin conversion for a HiWall out there?
How does CPA do their firing pin on their actions?

Thanks

Sakoman if you can't find it send me a PM with your e-mail address and I will send a drawing of Mann's original design.

JLouis

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JLouis wrote on Aug 12^th, 2015 at 9:13pm:


That may have been the case Mr Louis but the drawings were done by Michaels friendly gunsmith, the late John Wills. John sent me some of his drawings and when I compared your Neidner BB modification I recognised the similarities immediately, The letters, numbers and even the arrowheads are definitely Johns. John also liked to sketch free hand in pencil.

A very nice gentleman was John always willing to give advice and provide sketches and methodology in carrying various machining processes. I wrote to him just a couple of weeks before he passed over, he replied he wasn't feeling well but as soon as he was fit enough he would copy it to me by Email. The drawings were a full set of drawings in great detail of A.O. Zischang's DST's for the Borchardt rifles he altered. John had copied these from an original set owned by an ASSRA also living in Alaska. As I understand it he made a dozen sets, Michael got one set, john kept another set for his own use. I heard it said he put them up for sale in a gunsmiths shop when it opened in the morning and by lunchtime they had all been sold. John said he wouldn't make another set for a thousand dollars.
Sadly for all who knew or corresponded with him he never did get well and he passed a couple of weeks later. He was a very generous man with his advice and his time. like Michael he is sadly missed by all. 

Harry.

Hello JL.
Sorry, I don't know your first name. It was only a minor point but I was thinking about a few decades ahead when most if not all of us have passed on. Hopefully ASSRA will still be going strong and the Journal is still being published it could possibly be misconstrued by later readers that it was also drawn by Michael, and I just wanted to obviate that possibility, there is already a lot of misinformation on the 'net' already. I wasn't nit picking. 

Yes, that is a photograph of one of Johns DST's, he did produce some real works of art. I already have that in my own collection of pictures. I have others obviously taken by someone other than Michael. Unfortunately they're lost in my hard drive somewhere, they are also in a very awkward format, the name of which escapes me for the moment but they take ages to open. The last time I found them I tried to save them in another format, but they weren't having any of it. lol.

Harry.