Perfect reason NOT to buy one!!
Why would you want anything brass to use under salt water when S/S is available??????????
I don't care how well you rinse a gun it will still have salt on it.
Experienced spearo.
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Experienced Spearo ( Spearo--I detest that term!)
FYI The Aussie Mechanism was designed by the late Wally Gibbins after WW11. The original guns did use brass but that many many years ago and was probably prior to your involvement in the sport.
The orginal Aussie guns were designed as previously mentioned by Wally but were manufactured by T.D. Preece Co. as the Sea Hornet line. A very few with brass components entered the US and generally as individual mechanisms; most that arrived installed in the guns were of SS construction.
About 20 years ago Alfred Biller began importing the Sea Hornet. He liked the gun so in 1990 he patented the gun in the US and added a harder sear lever and several cosmetic changes. Further in 1999 he added another patent which raised the trigger point. That was almost ten years ago; therefore the gun in question is possibly one of the newer models.
The wood Riffe line of guns also use an orginal modified Gibbons mechanisms made of SS.
The wood Alexander guns as well as most high end custom guns use a mechanism based on the Gibbon unit, however the Alexander is encased in 2X1/2 inch SS to with stand the 400 to almost 1000 pounds of thrust demanded by tuna guns.
The wood JBL uses a unique JBL SS Mechanism designed by Joe Lamonica
The Samson tube gun, designed by Herb Samson used a very unique 2 peice trigger mechanism which was brass and had a unique feature of a rinse hole. As the power increased from the kettle cured rubbers to the current surgical tubing the sears needed to be checked and replaced often. The line was aquired improved with SS parts and manufactured first by Aquatic Center and later by Sea Tec
Therefore I agree SS is on most cases best to use and in most guns today have SS componets..
sdm
(from my forthcoming book)