Robert,
The T Lug in the barrel lug has to be a wear compensator to compensate for hinge wear. It would pull the breech into the standing breech and on face (when the gun was fully closed) regardless of how worn the hinge was.
What do you think?
What do you mean about the Flues gun with the removeable rib?
Ross
Ross,
That's a pretty good explanation of the "compensating bolt" (that's what Emil called it) T lugs is how we've described it...it almost exactly matches Emil's description of the mechanism...
As for the removeable rib, I beleive the main function of the detatchable rib was to keep the rib from expanding when the barrel heated up...of something like that...it was all to do with thermal transfer...or maybe he didn't want to look through heat waves in the last rounds...
I'll dig out my folders this evening and re-familiarize myself...in fact I'll just post the data right here for you interpret yourself
