Take it apart-BREN

[Klunk]

Good gawd...what was I thinkin

This thing has more parts than I remember...

A nice healthy Inglis MK1 BREN
Unload and clear gun (but you knew that, right?)

Lift up the 'barrel nut'....

...and remove barrel

Turn bipod 90 degrees clockwise and withdraw from gas tube...

Push captive 'take down' out and upper and lower recievers can be seperated

upper and lower seperated

bolt and bolt carrier can now be withdrawn rearward along with gas piston

bolt and carrier seperated

 

[Klunk]

Extractor and firing pin are easily removed for cleaning...

The MK1 butt features and recoil buffer under the butt plate
press the buttplate 'in' and depress butt plate catch located on top of butt
Round thingy in centre of butt is the spring loaded buffer
The other item is the 'return spring tube cap'

Depress and turn the 'return spring tube cap'...
it can now be removed along with return spring and return spring rod

the 'piston post' can be removed
it is a spring loaded assembly intended to reduce stress on the moving parts
compress the piston post and withdraw the 'transverse cotter pin'
the transverse cotter pin has an extesion on the right side which engages with the cocking handle

The ejector and magazine catch are retained by the same pin...
remove this pin (it is captive) and wiggle the ejector/mag catch out
the ejector and mag catch can then be seperated along with their spring

Depress the little plunger and remove the barrel nut

an interesting pic showing a MK1 barrel along with a cut-away training barrel
the cut away shows the gas plug functioning-barrel/bore and spring loaded carry handle
the carry handle can be swung to the side to provide a fore-grip for 'from the hip' assault fire

 

[Skippy]

Awesome, thanks for the pics. The MKL at www.milsurps.com would really benefit from such a montage.

 

[Coyote Ugly]

Thanks for posting!

 

[MapleSugar]

Thanks, Klunk!

I'd love to shoot one of those babies FA!

Did the German model in 7.92x57mm have a 30 round magazine too?

P.S. I bet surplusrifle.com would love to have those photos, and a guest article by you.

 

[NavyShooter]

Wunderbar!

That's an awesome tear-down of the Bren! Many thanks for the effort to go get all the pics and post them for us!

NS

 

[chanman]

Thanks, Klunk!


P.S. I bet surplusrifle.com would love to have those photos, and a guest article by you.

I'll bet the same goes for the Milsurps Knowledge Library as well!

 

[steve1973]

Thanks, Klunk!

I'd love to shoot one of those babies FA!

Did the German model in 7.92x57mm have a 30 round magazine too?

P.S. I bet surplusrifle.com would love to have those photos, and a guest article by you.

Great photos, very informative! I was thinking the same thing about surplusrifle.com....

 

[Vimy Ridge]

Toot-toot! Nicely done. So, what's next?

 

[alexD92]

Man...would I love to shoot/own one of those... I hope we get a semi-auto version some day in the not so distant future.

 

[Ceska]

Great post Klunk. Thanks for taking the time to do that for us.

 

[Juster]

Thanks! Pity the SA80 doesn't come apart like that .

 

[Missing Something]

Nice cutaway barrel.... where is the rest of the cutaway gun

 

[Claven2]

As much as I would have preferred the ZB, nice job on the field strip demo.

pm me offline - I'd like to arrange the keeping of these types of posts for posterity over in the MKL.

 

[glang1]

Great job! Thanks for taking the time to show us some of your collection.

George

 

[maple_leaf_eh]

7.92x57 BREN

Thanks, Klunk!

I'd love to shoot one of those babies FA!

Did the German model in 7.92x57mm have a 30 round magazine too?

P.S. I bet surplusrifle.com would love to have those photos, and a guest article by you.

Ummmm? Inglis made some Brens in 7.92x57 for the Chinese during WWII. If so, the same techniques apply. Were you referring to the captured Czech LMGs the Germans used as limited standard?

 

[Klunk]

Ummmm? Inglis made some Brens in 7.92x57 for the Chinese during WWII. If so, the same techniques apply. Were you referring to the captured Czech LMGs the Germans used as limited standard?

The German model would have been a Czech ZB-26 (something I need one of)

The BREN was an improvement of the '26

 

[Bittermansbro]

Great.....I know how to take one down.....now I just need one so I can actually put my new education into practice.

 

[ian_in_vic]

Great idea for a new law - if you can strip it and use it, you can legally own it. Think the politicians will go for it?

 

[john@]

Hej Klunk, can you revive the photos?, they're not showing any more.