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22/12/2017 11:41:38
Haenel MKIVE German BSA copy.
During my search for a decent vintage BSA I was offered this German copy, that was missing various screws, trigger guard, underlever ball catch and was very badly corroded and in very poor condition indeed, plus the piston head had parted company with the piston and no Spring was fitted. After removing all the rust I decided not to get it reblued, but in retrospect should have left it as was.
Luckily a club mate and engineer pal Mally Hitchen was able to make the bits missing and replace the missing screws and although far from original has given me hours of fun since its rebuild and isn't that what its all about in the end.
Grayling1961
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22/12/2017 11:43:21
...great job on the Haenel Gary, congratulations to you and Mally and thanks for posting those pics.
On the theme of post-WW1 German rip-offs (and note that it wasn't a one-way street either - the Brits 'borrowed' plenty of German innovations in the last century too!), here's some pics of my Diana model 48. Like the Haenel IVE, it's a copy of the BSA underlever and made around the same sort of time, in the 1920s and '30s.
