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Posted: 10/28/2023 2:29:13 PM EDT
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I have a parts box with probably 87% of a L1A1 sitting around. I need an Aussie version. Has anyone built on one of these that came available again this summer? Any issues? I dread some of the old issues that had improper cuts, wrong location, not deep enough etc that had to be corrected. A little filing or reaming doesn’t phase me but I’d hate to get something that wouldn’t work without a major over haul. |
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I see I missed this last batch but thank you. gunplumber does good work. I did my last one with fp1201 in his garage. It’s easy, but not as easy as ARs, IF the receiver has no dimensional issues. It’s good to hear that DSA is not having the dimensional variances like older batches. Edit, I reread what you wrote. You got a good one out of an older batch it sounds like. They’re fun guns. |
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I'm pretty sure Mark at Arizona Response Systems (ARS) is currently building L1A1 kits on those newer DSA inch receivers. If there is some dimensional issue he is able to overcome it. Just get the receiver when they come back in stock and send the whole thing to ARS. I have a FAL Para at ARS now for some trouble shooting and gunsmithing. He does great work !! |
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I’ll add to it that the issues DSA have had seem to have been resolved. IF there are any issues, Gunplumber is the guy who is going to respond with “I’m having issues with it not locking up. I’m a bit baffled…. But I’m going to try one more thing….” and if there is the slimmest chance of it getting fixed, he is going to stick to it like a pit bull til he resolves it. He’s done like 6 builds for me, currently wrapping up a German G1. Plus…. Not exactly a lot of options other than DSA these days…. |
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Originally Posted By derwood67: I’ll add to it that the issues DSA have had seem to have been resolved. IF there are any issues, Gunplumber is the guy who is going to respond with “I’m having issues with it not locking up. I’m a bit baffled…. But I’m going to try one more thing….” and if there is the slimmest chance of it getting fixed, he is going to stick to it like a pit bull til he resolves it. He’s done like 6 builds for me, currently wrapping up a German G1. Plus…. Not exactly a lot of options other than DSA these days…. That’s what I thought,....issues don’t seem to be spoken of too often anymore. (Then again It’s no longer the fast and furious days of FAL kit building). I remember the days when gunplumber would tactfully pull no punches on the early in house not LMT uppers. IIRC it was mostly ejector block issues from being slightly off the mark. DSA then would tap dance a bit and for some people that sent them back to DSA to get fixed it would drag on. This was at least ten years ago. The last FAL i built was before that but I still have a kit plus extra parts. My last was a Coonan Brit cut and the only thing off for me was the receiver lock was a touch too tight. Easy enough to swap parts or fit. I want to do my own work. I’ve done ARs, FALs, Garands, M14s, M1 carbines. I still have my FAL assembly tools and pin gages. I know gunplumber is excellent and chatted with him on both boards, here when he was still around and Fal files. I will due to local circumstance not even build the gun until I move out of this jurisdiction. Well unless the CA cases get through the SC before the home interest rates drop. It’ll sit in a box in the safe. 
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I dawdled on the last batch thinking they would not sell out so fast. Oops. I may not build it for a few years as I have two Brits, well a Brit cut Fabrique Coonan with nice wood and an inch cut Imbel with a Brit Marnyl kit. But I don’t want to miss an opportunity completely. Who knows how many batches are left? It’s not like the kits are still coming in. Hell you cannot even buy a U.S. made inch barrel. There were some screwed up ones but that is a long time ago and a long story. As it is I’ll be using a Brit barrel instead of an Aussie. A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do. |
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I have a inch cut Imbel. ARS can cut 90 to 95 percent of the lighting cuts. He can also add markings. So it would get marked to match the BSA 58 parts So I'm going to send it off as soon as the AWB gets sorted out or I move my legal address to my home down south. Rifle is all ready there. Not sure if I could send it have it done and pick it up in person. Rifle would never go back to Illinois and I believe he could only ship it to my legal adress |
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