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It has been a while since I have posted a what is it. I was up in the container cleaning up and looking for parts for a project I was working on this last weekend and came across this. It is a casting of some kind of mount. Some machining has been performed but it […] This last weekend was our semi annual when we get around to it kind of twice a year maybe only once a year machine gun shoot. It is nothing great or grand. There are no fees, no explosives, no sales tables, no flying targets and no spectators. Just a boring time of a bunch of […] I took off a few personal days and went to out local machine gun shoot. There will be a few posts about that over the next few days as soon as I get the videos sorted out. I had an opportunity to examine a serious failure. A friend of mine was shooting his 1919 browning […] In this post we are going to look at how the badly cut up and rusted lower portion of the MP-44 receiver was repaired. You can see in the first photo the condition of the under side of the lower front portion of the receiver. The first set was to cut out the bad section. […] With this post I am going over a few of the problems that have occurred during the machining of op5 on the 4140 hardened trunions. We ran into a snag while doing this op. A problem that did not occur on the 1018 steel parts. A quick video discussing the problem and solution. The […] The welding on the lower receiver is now complete. This is the video on that update. Now for some pictures showing close ups of the work performed. A side view of the lower receiver A top view of the receiver The rear stock supports is first spot welded in place. However, due to […] I own a Hotchkiss portative machine gun and with it now fully operational it has become one of my favorites to take to the shoot. My biggest complaint with it is that I just don’t like getting down into the dirt to shoot it. The butt stock is uncomfortable to use and the little […] We have started on Pete’s, a friend of gun lab, new 4140 MP-44 trunions. This series of videos and posts is the process we used to make them. First the video. Here are the pictures going over the changes and the steps we took. We needed to change the depth of cut for […] I happen to own a Hotchkiss portative light machine gun. Now that I have it working, with the help of my friend John, I find it one of the more fun guns to shoot. So since last December I have been working on a couple of accessories for it. Well it happen that on […] |
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