I think Antonio may be referring to my comment in his other thread of my not knowing that the safety lever (the thumb piece with the grooves) had a number. My S/42 does indeed have a number, but the font is so small and the strike fairly light that I never noticed it until I looked at his close-up pics.
Neither of my commercials has it. Interesting that the military models would be pretty much all-numbered, but not so with the commercial models.
Leads to the question: Were the commercials held to a higher standard than the militaries??? Was it easier to have bins full of [military] parts and just keep swapping in parts until they worked??? And leave the hand-fitting to the commercials that could be worked on at leisure???
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