MG-34 WWII production video - German language

Thanks for posting Tootall. I have a battlefield dug relic MG34 bolt I use as a paperweight. I was curious about the steps required to make it, so I showed it to a friend that owns an industrial machine shop...he was amazed at the precision, quality and close tolerances. As he looked it over, he pointed out the many,many steps and tooling required to fabricate the bolt.. When I asked him how much it would cost to blueprint and fab a new one, he just laughed. As a historian, I find the MG34 offers insight to the mentality present during the Third Reich. Yes it is a fantastic piece of engineering, but it is an incredibly complex and expensive one to produce. It requires large, dedicated factories filled with precision machinery, manned by skilled labor to produce. Disrupt any one of those vulnerable factors, and production is significantly impacted. Compare that to say, Ppsh 41 production...
 
That was great, Thanks.

They say tolerances were kept to a 1/100 of a millimetre, hard to believe, but it is a propaganda film after all.

what do you want to have translated?
 
Brookwood said:
Thanks for posting Tootall. I have a battlefield dug relic MG34 bolt I use as a paperweight. I was curious about the steps required to make it, so I showed it to a friend that owns an industrial machine shop...he was amazed at the precision, quality and close tolerances. As he looked it over, he pointed out the many,many steps and tooling required to fabricate the bolt.. When I asked him how much it would cost to blueprint and fab a new one, he just laughed. As a historian, I find the MG34 offers insight to the mentality present during the Third Reich. Yes it is a fantastic piece of engineering, but it is an incredibly complex and expensive one to produce. It requires large, dedicated factories filled with precision machinery, manned by skilled labor to produce. Disrupt any one of those vulnerable factors, and production is significantly impacted. Compare that to say, Ppsh 41 production...
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Reminds me of the Duxford? restoration of a BF109. They took out the crank and were told not to damage it because a new one could not be made.
 
polaris said:
That was great, Thanks.

They say tolerances were kept to a 1/100 of a millimetre, hard to believe, but it is a propaganda film after all.

what do you want to have translated?
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4 tenths, so certainly doable, but far from necessary on an MG, except possibly on the rollers in an MG42 or Stg44
 
Brookwood said:
Thanks for posting Tootall. I have a battlefield dug relic MG34 bolt I use as a paperweight. I was curious about the steps required to make it, so I showed it to a friend that owns an industrial machine shop...he was amazed at the precision, quality and close tolerances. As he looked it over, he pointed out the many,many steps and tooling required to fabricate the bolt.. When I asked him how much it would cost to blueprint and fab a new one, he just laughed. As a historian, I find the MG34 offers insight to the mentality present during the Third Reich. Yes it is a fantastic piece of engineering, but it is an incredibly complex and expensive one to produce. It requires large, dedicated factories filled with precision machinery, manned by skilled labor to produce. Disrupt any one of those vulnerable factors, and production is significantly impacted. Compare that to say, Ppsh 41 production...
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I read somewhere that the US looked at making a copy of the MG34 during the war.
They took a captured sample to a factory to reverse engineer it.
They were told that it could be done, but you really dont want to...
 
tootall said:
I read somewhere that the US looked at making a copy of the MG34 during the war.
They took a captured sample to a factory to reverse engineer it.
They were told that it could be done, but you really dont want to...
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I've read the same thing. I've been interested in MG34s since I had the chance to disassemble and examine one in a museum. It is an incredibly complex and precise fitting machine. What strikes me the most about it is the fact that virtually every single part can be replaced with a substitute part manufactured anytime (and by any manufacturer) between it's 1934-45 production run. That is some awesome quality control, especially considering the war time conditions.

To get a better idea of what went into producing an MG34 and how it functioned, take a look at this animation -


Brookwood
 
My German is not near good enough to keep up but very cool video all the same Tootall. Lead me down a number of different reviews on Youtube. Any idea where you can rent and shoot in the States?
 
VanIsleCam said:
My German is not near good enough to keep up but very cool video all the same Tootall. Lead me down a number of different reviews on Youtube. Any idea where you can rent and shoot in the States?
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You can shoot it's successor the MG42 at Battlefield Vegas,they have a lot of WWII weapons to choose from
 
Brookwood said:
Thanks for posting Tootall. I have a battlefield dug relic MG34 bolt I use as a paperweight. I was curious about the steps required to make it, so I showed it to a friend that owns an industrial machine shop...he was amazed at the precision, quality and close tolerances. As he looked it over, he pointed out the many,many steps and tooling required to fabricate the bolt.. When I asked him how much it would cost to blueprint and fab a new one, he just laughed. As a historian, I find the MG34 offers insight to the mentality present during the Third Reich. Yes it is a fantastic piece of engineering, but it is an incredibly complex and expensive one to produce. It requires large, dedicated factories filled with precision machinery, manned by skilled labor to produce. Disrupt any one of those vulnerable factors, and production is significantly impacted. Compare that to say, Ppsh 41 production...
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