Cheapest gun ever!!

[303carbine]

That's a nice piece of history and you can take that to the bank......maybe not.

 

[Klunk]

He eats lots of weiner water soup and fried ice. All the grocery money goes to his toys. Don't invite him over for the weekend. He'll eat ALL your food and drink ALL your whiskey.

I was gonna hide the rest of that lasagna somewhere in the van,but, gaurenteed "Guts" would have found it...and I woulda drove off the road trying to get it away from her

The gun is welded up tight although the top cover opens and the feed block is removeable

if I can get some help (milling machine) I may return it to '#### and click' status

 

[Tbolt]

That is a really nice piece Klunk.

 

[Jay T]

sweet piece of kit Klunk!! nice pics. Nice to see it in one piece and not chopped up in a scrapmetal bin.

 

[shoot!!!]

You make me sick, Klunk! You got all the cool stuff!!

Now for a noob question... how does the water cooling work (if it wasn't dewat)

How it works.

After firing several belts, the water in the jacket turns to steam. Steam travels through hose to the can where it condenses back into water.

two options then.
1. pour water back into barrel jacket or
2. top up water jacket.

Contrary to popular belief the water IS NOT pumped back into the gun.AND you CANNOT use the hot water to brew up your tea (unless you like grease in it)

Lots of times, it was not water returned to the cooling jacket, and you wouldn't want tea from it.. Had an uncle in WW1 who in letters to my father said "you hated the smell from the Vickers,, but they sure made you feel more secure. You knew somebody was in more pain than you" H.R.Simpson 46th Infantry South Saskatchewan "Suicide battalions" MC Belgian cross Had two different T&T MG wounds, was gassed, sent to England to recoup, worked at of a division of Vickers MG school then was courtmartialed at Seaforth England before coming home.. died 1926. Was always a "loose cannon" but thats where you get hero's, cause they don't GiveA$hit.