<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2912" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>Converting brass rails to wooden flanges is something appropriate to consider when rebuilding an action - and a wonderful thing to do, IMHO. But it's not for a spot repair.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Terry Farrell</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 7/21/2006 1:30:50 AM Eastern Standard Time, <A href="mailto:tcole@cruzio.com">tcole@cruzio.com</A> writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial>The workaround is to scrap the brass rails and prepare the action rail to accept standard wooden flanges</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV>Greetings,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>          Yes, I examined the hammer butts to see if I could convert them to the flange system, however, when I held a flange up next to the butt's center pin, they wont fit together in order to be pinned! There are flanges on the butt. Do you mean that the butts have to have those flanges ground/filed off, in order to make a regualar butt out of them? ..or are there special sized flanges that will accept those hammer butts? </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>JUlia Gottswhall.</DIV> <DIV>Reading. PA</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>