I once had a problem with an Italian repro. The nipples available to us in SAE threads (don't SPECIFICALLY remember fine or coarse) went into a clean gun just fine but after a match, it took a good wrench to get it out. The threads were just ever so loose enough that soot, fowling, etc would get between and tighten things up.
I spoke to an expert at Track of the Wolf who told me that the Italian nipples were metric, and that an 8mm nipple would fit better.
Long story short, he was right.
Bob Anderson
Ordnance Sergeant
Company C, 1st Michigan Volunteer Infantry
Small Arms Committee
"I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a hand on.
I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them."
- John Wayne in "The Shootist", 1976
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