The MG34 Repair and Troubleshooting Thread

Well was busy today taking the Green Yugo paint off :) and spraying it with some RAL 6006

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Epoxy7 said:
I bought one of these at the Chilliwack gun show a number of years ago. The idea was to get a MG34 eventually along with the conversion piece for the MG34. Looks like it will be a while. It came complete with the Hensoldt optic and folds into a backpack. I find if nothing else it looks cool even on it's own. I'll start saving up for when Dilligaf decides to sell his MG34 kit. :ninja:

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Marstar has these for sale, not cheap though
And you have to buy the mounting block from TNW and do a bit of grinding on the tripod for the 34 to fit plus make a new part to contact the trigger as this tripod is for an mg 42 not a 34
 
Manners said:
Man Epoxy that tripod is wicked cool.

Wonder how it ended up at the Chilliwack gunshow.....
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The guy I bought it from had a dewat MG42 he used the stand for which he sold. I don't think he knew about the MG34 being able to be used with one.

Deathrawt said:
Marstar has these for sale, not cheap though
And you have to buy the mounting block from TNW and do a bit of grinding on the tripod for the 34 to fit plus make a new part to contact the trigger as this tripod is for an mg 42 not a 34
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Yup. Irunguns was selling the conversion piece a few years back. I'm a ways off buying a MG34 and I've given up hope on a non restricted MG42. This just came up at a price I couldn't pass up. Complete with Hensoldt periscope optic, battery container etc and was in excellent shape.
 
DILLIGAF said:
I thought RAL 6006 was the correct color for MG drums? My 2 Yugo drums will stay puke green :)
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Maybe if used in Africa/Afrika or if rusted out. But otherwise I thought they were green? All of the photos I've seen are black/white so I have to admit I'm not sure. Don't worry your repainting has now devalued the entire set. I will reluctantly buy it off you when you choose to sell at a huge discount due to the historical destruction!! :evil:
 
It was 115$ from Marstar for the 2 drums and carrier. And the Yogus already screwed them up painting them Apple green during the refub process.

Heck I spent 75$ on the paint and primer...lol...
 
DILLIGAF said:
It was 115$ from Marstar for the 2 drums and carrier. And the Yogus already screwed them up painting them Apple green during the refub process.
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You know I'm joking around right? Although it's good to know that they are around in those sets. One of these days I want a MG34 and a MG42.
 
Ill never sell the MG34 :) Unless something cooler comes along. But I highly doubt that.

Tomorrow im painting my Ammo can and spider sight. The ammo can is Yugo Green but its a German made one and the spider sight is an unpainted repo.
 
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Epoxy7 said:
The guy I bought it from had a dewat MG42 he used the stand for which he sold. I don't think he knew about the MG34 being able to be used with one.



Yup. Irunguns was selling the conversion piece a few years back. I'm a ways off buying a MG34 and I've given up hope on a non restricted MG42. This just came up at a price I couldn't pass up. Complete with Hensoldt periscope optic, battery container etc and was in excellent shape.
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Don't give up hope on a semi auto mg42, TNW is supposed to start building semi 42s this year sometime.
With any luck we will be able to get them here
When I modded my tripod for the 34 I did it in a way so that a 42 can still fit on it too. Some guys bend the orig trigger actuator on the tripod to work with the 34 but I removed it and made an aluminum one instead
 
DILLIGAF said:
Ill never sell the MG34 :) Unless something cooler comes along. But I highly doubt that.

Tomorrow im painting my Ammo can and spider sight. The ammo can is Yugo Green but its a German made one and the spider sight is an unpainted repo.
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What kind of ammo are you going to run? When I first got mine I tried the 50s yugo surplus and didn't have good luck at all with it
Ended up reloading my own 8mm and it's been good. I have tried S&B and PPU and they worked good too
As for your AA sight maybe one of those home bluing kits would be better then painting it?
 
DILLIGAF said:
It was 115$ from Marstar for the 2 drums and carrier. And the Yogus already screwed them up painting them Apple green during the refub process.

Heck I spent 75$ on the paint and primer...lol...
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Waste of money, next painting buy the Princess Auto sandable primer then buy a rattle can of Dupi-Color grey bumper coating at Canadian Tire if you are going for PZGrau .
 
Isn't there a FRT for a semi-auto non-restricted MG 42 aka the M53 by zastava. It's just that no-one wants to import them.
 
By far one of the best threads on CGN.
Keep it up Dil!

Off topic, are you adopting ? Hahahha!

Cheers,
 
Hopefully your maiden voyage this weekend goes smoothly and you don't have too many issues getting it to run consistently
Let us know how that ammo works out I may have to get some to try out
 
R711 said:
Isn't there a FRT for a semi-auto non-restricted MG 42 aka the M53 by zastava. It's just that no-one wants to import them.
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The Non-restricted classification and FRT are for the semi auto MG42/SARAC 53 prototypes made by Zastava for John at Marstar.
He has indicated that he will sell them, along with the engineering package for the project.
 
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