I have a number of belt loaders and one that I picked up a number of years ago is the MG-51 belt loader. This is a Swiss belt loader originally design for the Swiss Maxim gun. Later they were converted from the cloth belt to a metal belt for the MG-51.
In this case the loader has been converted to 8×57 and uses the MG-34/42 belt.
This is the box holding the loader.
As packed in the box.
A couple of views of the loader.
This is the video of me loading up a belt of 8×57 for the MG-34 and MG-42.
That’s a neat conversion!!
What did you have to do to the loader for the conversion?