Mystery M1A Magazines, help to identify?

Ok well I just ordered a couple from Durham. If they come tack welded, I'll just remove the welds and re-park them. I prefer using rived in the floorplate so they could be taken apart for service if needed.

The marstar mags were not 5.5, so I'll have to try and fix those.
 
Claven2 said:
Ok well I just ordered a couple from Durham. If they come tack welded, I'll just remove the welds and re-park them. I prefer using rived in the floorplate so they could be taken apart for service if needed.

The marstar mags were not 5.5, so I'll have to try and fix those.
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The mystery mags I have the 4 that are just plain floor plates I'm thinking about putting a rivet in the hole of the floor plate but I have six magazines that the floor plates are tack welded I want to get rid of the tack welds and I would love to reparkerized them how do you actually parkarize things anyway is there at home kit
 
jmichelin84 said:
The mystery mags I have the 4 that are just plain floor plates I'm thinking about putting a rivet in the hole of the floor plate but I have six magazines that the floor plates are tack welded I want to get rid of the tack welds and I would love to reparkerized them how do you actually parkarize things anyway is there at home kit
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Yes, google radocy.
 
Damn. The two mags from Durham are obnoxiously welded. Its not even very neatly done.

Oh well. Now have to decide if I should fix them or ditch them.
 
Alot of the Mags are like that, I dropped one hunting and it busted
The welds popped off the sides, the lips on the bottom sheared off and the rest flew out, lost ammo and internals lol
 
jmichelin84 said:
Alot of the Mags are like that, I dropped one hunting and it busted
The welds popped off the sides, the lips on the bottom sheared off and the rest flew out, lost ammo and internals lol
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Typical. The Marstar mags suck because they pin them so only 4 rounds can be installed if you insert the mag on a closed bolt, the welded mage are limited to 5.5, but are so ugly I almost vomit in my mouth.

Anyone know if the 5/20 Magwedge mags are any good?
 
Claven2 said:
Typical. The Marstar mags suck because they pin them so only 4 rounds can be installed if you insert the mag on a closed bolt, the welded mage are limited to 5.5, but are so ugly I almost vomit in my mouth.

Anyone know if the 5/20 Magwedge mags are any good?
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I've heard the norincos are great, just the welds, the KCI and ProMage are trash, the magwedge as far as I know may need fitting and holds 4 with the rivit, if your getting rid of norincos, gimmeba decent price and I'll buy haha, as long as they are not the rivited ones
 
FWIW, I was easily able to use a cutting disc and crack open the welds. The follower is limited identically to the older marstar noringo mags from the 2000's.

SO I've cleaned up the mag base lip and the base plate and will just re-park everything. Once re-parked, I'll put an aluminum rivet in the base plate hole. should be MUCH better.
 
Claven2 said:
FWIW, I was easily able to use a cutting disc and crack open the welds. The follower is limited identically to the older marstar noringo mags from the 2000's.

SO I've cleaned up the mag base lip and the base plate and will just re-park everything. Once re-parked, I'll put an aluminum rivet in the base plate hole. should be MUCH better.
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That's what I'm going to do actually haha, but I'd like to know how they actually made them in the first place
 
jmichelin84 said:
That's what I'm going to do actually haha, but I'd like to know how they actually made them in the first place
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Simple - they took the older style mags like marstar used to sell, TIG welded 3 little tacks, and then spraypainted the bottoms with black rust paint. Yuck.

Here are my two Durham Outdoor mags ready to go for re-park. Not perfect, but good enough.

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Here are my 6 mags that I did, I lost the guts for my 7th and its got a piece where the welds were missing, gave it to a friend and he drilled the spot welds, tossed it at me today haha

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And the floor plate of the bad mag, notice the breaks? And the grainy steel, that kids is why you do not do anything to mess with a temper, and I cropped the picture and please ignore the rest of my boxers haha
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Oh yeah I forgot to mention if anyone has any of the welded floor plate mags they don't want please let me know I'll take them off your hands also soon I'm going to have one that I'll trade if anyone is interested in it's a standard riveted mag no welds on the floor plate
 
FWIW, if you have a bench-mounted belt sander, just run the floor plate over the belt to clean up the face of the plate and it will look much cleaner when it's re-parked. That's what I did to mine and why they look pretty consistent.

The pit on the one mag isn't a hole, it was just a porous weld to begin with. My advice to anyone doing this is to use a cut-off wheel on a dremel to slice the welds. If you try and break them with a cold chisel or something, it will take a chunk of metal out of the floorplate.
 
I learned that actually, I started using a cylindrical stone from my Dremel kit, but I think I'll try my belt sander, but the floor plates to sand them a bit, any advice on the boxes retaining lips?
 
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