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Years ago when I was a young lad I had the hots for a tank,I later owned a Ferret scout car, but I wanted a tracked vehicle. That is when I knew little to nothing about them and the work involved in maintaining them. I must also mention that I am 6’4″ and could not fit in any tank that interested me. This set of pictures is from a private tank museum that is no longer in business, but I really liked this cute little pre-WW2 tank. I have no idea where the tank has gone to so if someone knows please let me know. I would like to take photo’s of the inside one day. I must also mention that I am not a vehicle guy but a gun guy. This means that I want the tank as an accessory for my guns and not the other way around. I use to own a m-2 50 cal machine gun, a Lathe 20 mm cannon and a number of 1919’s so I thought this would be the perfect toy to carry them around in at a shoot.

Here are the pictures of this cute toy.

A frontal view.

Close up of the main armament in this model

right side angle view.

Here are a few pictures from an old magazine.

A crew of 4.

a great cut away of the tank

The armament it carried

It used a 235h.p. radial airplane type engine with a max speed of 35mph on the road and 5mph in the open country.

views of VG1-5 rifles and slings

I have assembled a number of pictures of various VG1-5 rifles and there slings from the internet and ones that I have taken. These are the internet pictures.

A closer look at the sling.

This is the only picture that I have ever seen with a rear swivel on the sling.

Here is a close up of the sling and swivel.

Another close up of this sling.

These are the rifles that I have photographed.

A couple of close ups.

All the slings look to be a course weave material but of different color lots. Using this as my bases I think I am going with the first version of sling material. I am also thinking about using the swivel as a rear attachment for the sling.

Of the three sling material available I happen to think the first one is closest.

Once again number 1.

Weekend up date 3-30-15

Well the weekend is over and the library is dome. We went through all the boxes, except gun magazines, and have found a place for most of them. What a long day. Here are the pictures of the results.

Sheet metal and Naval manuals.

Engineering

welding and machining

foundry, blacksmithing and knife making.

wood working and building

Magazine storage

Now to start locating all the other books and putting them up. At least the wood shop is back.

Still need to finish the wall. Next weekend.

Sunday Answer 3-28-15

The bolt and bolt carrier shown in Saturdays post.

Comes from an 8×57 Dror machine gun. Here are a few picture of this weapon.

One of the unique items about this LMG is the open bolt operation while on full auto and the closed bolt operation while on semi- auto.

Here is a close up look of this fire control system.

You can see the full auto sear engaged in the bolt.

Up date on the library

My last post on my library and the mess that it was in hit a few off note cords around here. No access to a great deal of my reference library and the mess all the rooms were in really pushed my buttons. Then boom I get a call from a general contractor ,that I did some work for, and he wants to get rid of some moving book cases. These are the type you see in large library’s only a 4 compartment set. He wants to know if I want them or not, of course we all know the answer to that. So I picked them up this morning and the days work was set. This is what the little room looked like before we re-worked it.

Now after we started the whole new library thing.

A close up of one of the book shelves.

The new moving book cases look like this.

This was not accomplished with out making a mess everywhere. The books had to go somewhere while we moved.

All the garbage in the room had to come out as well.

A little more work was done on the wall of the wood shop as well. It was sanded and a final coat of mud put down. One more sanding and then I will paint it.

Saturdays over, but tomorrow is another fun filled day.

What is it Saturday 3-28-15

Apology for lack of posts

Sorry about the lack of posting. Once again the work load in my company has taken over my life. Most days this last week were 12 to 14 hours in length and one 16 hour day. I will get back on it this weekend.

VG1-5 slings

We are coming to a close on this project. The end is near and it is time to do some of the final touches prior to shipping out. This is not to say everything is done, far from it. All the parts are made, the fire control group works, most of the small bugs are worked out. The test gun has been sent for the first series of tests and write up. This is the next item on the list of things to do. The sling. The original one were what ever the Germans had. They were run through a ring on the front attachment and nailed to the butt stock. These are pictures of the three different types of materials and colors that I have access to.

Number 1:

Number 2

Number 3

All three together.

I am letting all of you decide. Which material and color. I could also use an idea on how to attach the sling to the butt stock. I don’t feel that nailing is a real good solution but I want it as close to the original as possible.

Thanks for your help.

3-25-15

Sorry no post for today. Worked and got home at 10.45 pm and have to leave at 5am tomorrow. Going to bed. I will try and post tomorrow.

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