Sad seeing old decrepit buildings like that which represented so much more in bygone days. Progress, I suppose. If I lived around Meriden, I'd try to buy it, just for storage and bragging rights if nothing else.

Ed Muderlak rightly or wrongly wrote a different theory about why the Parker gun never resumed production.

I imagine the property taxes on a commercial building in a commercially zoned section of Meriden would be pretty costly.... I wonder how the revenue to pay the taxes and the upkeep on the building would be generated..... Edgar?... George?..... :corn:

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Just for info, Frank LeFever, in Lee Center, NY, bought the original barrel matting machine from Remington. It stayed in Lee Center (North of Rome, NY) until the 90s and has since dissapeared.

Check Tony Galazan's storage area, I think he owned it at one time after Frank. Bill is correct about the matting machine, I saw it at Frank's shop years ago.

Might Tony be using it to matt the ribs for the $50K Remington Parkers?





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Dean-----I would think not, with the advent of CNC machines the process can be done more accurately and quicker

And only a dozen of those new Parkers have been built and only about half of them actually sold.

I with someone would get that machine going again or come up with another way to re-matte Parker ribs. That would be an invaluable thing these days.

Our best hope at this point is John Hosford, who is currently able to matte Fox ribs. He can matte any rib really, but it would look like a fox pattern. I am hoping thag he adjusts his operation some in the future to allow for other makers to be done.

Besides, if you want to be 100% correct about things, a CNC matted rib woild just not have the right look. But i guess beggers cant be choosers. But now i am off topic, talking about rib matting and all.

Building Raffle
 

I guess by all the talk the drug dealers and dope heads have taken over the block, I would like to get up to Meriden and see that building before i leave here, I bet you can feel "feel" the presence of the old guys who worked there! Well guess I will not be giving up a Parker for the building raffle, by the way here is the gun I was thinking about offering, Gary

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