Museum's inventory: MG 15

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dauph197

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Hey Guys,

Here, I will need your help. This one will need a lot of work and love to come back to life. It is completely jammed and cocked since... at least 2006. I'm a bit on the rush to complete the inventory, then, I hope I will have one or two weeks to just play and photograph all the weapons I want.

If any of you can give me more details about how to strip that weapon, I'll be more than appreciated.

Also, what is the correct denomination for this MG. Is that an infantry MG 15? Any idea where and when it has been made?

Thanks for your help.

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This one looks like the MG15na, a model used on many of the Luftwaffe aircraft but also "modular" so that it could also be used by the infantry by adding the correct components. Most of the time it used the 75 round saddle drum magazine.

It has a 1942 date code on it and is set up with the infantry butt stock and bipod.

There was an earlier WWI designation "MG-15" but it used a different locking system. This MG-15 is a modification of the MG-30.

The MG 15 was a German 7.92 mm machine gun designed specifically as a hand manipulated defensive gun for combat aircraft during the early 1930s. By 1941 it was replaced by other types and found new uses with ground troops

The MG-15 fires from an open bolt position. Make sure the safety is off, grab the cocking handle with one hand so that you can ease it forward, and pull the trigger with the other hand. The bolt should then go forward. IN THE PICTURES, THE SAFETY IS ON.
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The MG15 was originally a flexible mount aircraft gun. It was later used in the anti-aircraft and ground role with the addition of the bipod and shoulder stock.

The gun fires from the open bolt position and is fed from a 75 round double drum magazine that sits on top of the receiver.

The manufacturer appears to be "gal" which is C. Wagner, Muhlhausen, Thuringen.

Found this instruction on a poster from the Ministry of Defence British training posters issued by the West Riding District Weapons Training School, 1st February 1943.

Safety -
Rotate safety arc to bring the letter "S" opposite arrow on body for safe position and "F" opposite arrow for fire.
Can be set to SAFE only when gun is cocked.

To strip it -
1 - Unload, Set to FIRE, #### gun and then make safe.(I'm pretty sure they want you to put the gun on "SAFE". Note that step 4 has you put the gun on "FIRE", letting everything go forward under control. Just be aware that there will be a LOT of spring tension somewhere in there pushing the butt backwards - hold on tight and keep thing under control)

2 - Depress body extension catch behind safety by arc.

3 - Turn body extension nearly 90 degrees anti-clockwise and remove it complete with breech block group.

4 - Set to FIRE. Holding cocking handle, press trigger and let cocking handle move slowly forward.

5 - Remove breech block and return spring.

6 - Keeping ejector raised withdraw barrel extension and locking nut from barrel and remove with barrel.

Hope this helps. Keep us posted on this one.

Eric
 
Used by second line Luftwaffe troops, Volkssturm and others with a saddle drum magazine.

No belt feed.

Light and handy, but not in the same class as the MG34/42. There was also a water cooled version.
 
Recce21 said:
Oh man, I am going to laugh my ass off if "locked and jammed since 2006" is as simple as no one could figure out that it was an open bolt MG on SAFE.
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Some people have never used MG's. Plus there are getting to be less and less people who have used it or can use it. The knowledge to do these things goes out the window. Simple things that can prevent issues get forgotten (ever heard of someone not putting the safety to the middle point before disassembling a M98 Mauser bolt its the same idea).

The more these pictures are going up (thanks dauph197 I love these threads) the more I hate these stupid gun laws that prevent people from enjoying what they love and learning about the past. One of the things I love about firearms is it gives you a physical connection to the past as not to much things from say 1940 or 1900 are kicking around and being used everyday.
 
This is what you are missing......
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Or the box mags which normally have light fluting on the sides, much like a G43 but are longer.
 
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