Forgotten Weapons - VICKERS
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It's Christmas time,did we really need to hear about the kids who can't go out and play. 
And your pictures made me feel like the kid with his nose against the toy store window.
That brass and projectiles looks like it was just put in the crate!
And your pictures made me feel like the kid with his nose against the toy store window.
That brass and projectiles looks like it was just put in the crate!
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Nice video.
I am somewhat surprised he didn't say anything about the 100th Machine Gun Company's exploits in the Battle of the Somme, on Aug 24 1916. 10 guns fired for roughly 12 hours laying interdiction fire behind a German trench line to prevent reinforcements and supplies moving up while the British were advancing.
Those guns fired one belt short of 1 million rounds during that time with only 2 malfunctions - a broken extractor pawl and one that suffered random jams due to something wrong with its lock mechanism. The gunners, assistant gunners, and barrels were changed at regular intervals, and a party of men was kept very busy running ammo to the guns and working the linking machines. The story goes that the guns used all the stockpiled water, all the water in the company water bottles, and "personal resources" 
(I think you can figure that one out) of the crews.
The Germans were not able to get reinforcements or supplies through the hail of fire, enabling the front trench lines to be taken by the British.
I am somewhat surprised he didn't say anything about the 100th Machine Gun Company's exploits in the Battle of the Somme, on Aug 24 1916. 10 guns fired for roughly 12 hours laying interdiction fire behind a German trench line to prevent reinforcements and supplies moving up while the British were advancing.
Those guns fired one belt short of 1 million
rounds during that time with only 2 malfunctions - a broken extractor pawl and one that suffered random jams due to something wrong with its lock mechanism. The gunners, assistant gunners, and barrels were changed at regular intervals, and a party of men was kept very busy running ammo to the guns and working the linking machines. The story goes that the guns used all the stockpiled water, all the water in the company water bottles, and "personal resources" (I think you can figure that one out) of the crews.The Germans were not able to get reinforcements or supplies through the hail of fire, enabling the front trench lines to be taken by the British.
Any of you guys ever read - "A Rifleman Goes To War"? Can't remember the author's name. Great story of a WWI sniper and the "Emma Gees", the machinegunners in action.
One of the attached vids after the one on the Vickers was a review of the Reising folding stock SMG. I missed the 12(?) cut off when I couldn't afford the $250 for a Reising, one of the full stock models. How I wish I had bitten the bullet and acquired one!
One of the attached vids after the one on the Vickers was a review of the Reising folding stock SMG. I missed the 12(?) cut off when I couldn't afford the $250 for a Reising, one of the full stock models. How I wish I had bitten the bullet and acquired one!
I may be wrong but I think there was a company making new side plates. Someone with some tooling could produce them in Canada and bypass all the us bs. And get some Russian parts kits for the rest. I'm in for assembly and testing, but need someone to make plates...
US law requires a new receiver, the right sideplate counts as that.
In Canada, ALL the plates that get riveted together are considered the receiver, so it would need R, L, bottom, and trunnion.
I have been dreaming of someone importing Russian PM-1910 Maxims on the wheeled Sokolov mount.
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But it is the same issue, it requires several parts to qualify as an all new receiver.
In Canada, ALL the plates that get riveted together are considered the receiver, so it would need R, L, bottom, and trunnion.
I have been dreaming of someone importing Russian PM-1910 Maxims on the wheeled Sokolov mount.
<<< Just like my avatar.!
But it is the same issue, it requires several parts to qualify as an all new receiver.
Do-able. Wish we had some enterprising individuals to build the required parts. There is certainly enough skill around here.
The plates are easy.
It is the trunnion that will be the big PITA.
A complex casting with lots of machining.
Certainly not impossible, Sir Hiram managed to build them back in the late 1800's, looong before CNC machines.
Just complex. Another Mod with gunsmithing experience and I were looking at old Russian drawings
https://www.scribd.com/doc/150309753/The-Maxim-Machine-Gun-Systems-Blueprints-by-1906 (Page 25/57)
and we were commenting that it was gonna be a bugger...
It is the trunnion that will be the big PITA.
A complex casting with lots of machining.
Certainly not impossible, Sir Hiram managed to build them back in the late 1800's, looong before CNC machines.
Just complex. Another Mod with gunsmithing experience and I were looking at old Russian drawings
https://www.scribd.com/doc/150309753/The-Maxim-Machine-Gun-Systems-Blueprints-by-1906 (Page 25/57)
and we were commenting that it was gonna be a bugger...
Any way that only the side plates are the receiver? Confirmed the whole thing must be new?
