Lucky finding, I think

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I got my Whitney a few days ago.
I love it. I disassembled it first. Looked carefully at all the parts trying to see if there are any weak, damaged or about to parts.
None.
The only thing is a loose on the threads aluminum charge handle.
Thanks to Ian from forgotten weapons I was aware of this feature, this flimsy design that reportedly can break.
It has minimum material to support the threads…and it gets banged.
The gun shoots beautifully. But I decided to make a shooter replacement of the handle and keep the original safe.
I,m not able to machine exact copy, But, I improvised mine from steel utilizing an industrial yoke joint with 3/8 x 24 thread used by the Whitney.
I gave the handle just a preliminary shape , it won,t have lugeresque checkered ears, perhaps I will just machine a few parallel grooves.
It,s a bit heavier than aluminum, but still cycles normal and high speed ammo.
This one won,t break , and seats very tight. I wonder why did they use the aluminum in such problematic area…