MoD brass cantle re-bagging

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BTW aren't there usually five poppers on the cantle? Does that vary from model to model?

The Mk1 MoD cantle has five bag-mounting bosses and a leaf-spring for the clasp, with a pull-up release action . The later ones have four bosses and a push-down release action, with the spring housed around the clasp shaft in a cylinder.

A five-boss bag will fit onto a four-boss cantle, as the shape and dimensions seem to be identical, but a four-boss bag would need to have an additional hole punched in order to make it fit properly.

Ideally, it would be best to match the bag to the cantle - but if you know which version you have, making a bag to fit is straight-forward and easy even when the cantle is not present for fitting.

My pictures show the two versions I have - the five-boss version is a bag I made and used circlips on the bosses; the four-boss is a bag I commision Margaret Morrison to make, showing their replacement snap-fasteners.

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