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  1. Those are what the Maxim 1923 baffles look like. They have not had a projectile strike.
  2. Unfortunately not. They're not even close, completely different outside and inside diameters.
  3. In the print you have, if the cocking handle slot runs out the end of the receiver, then the print is one that's been floating around for a long time and is not even close to the original. The original factory drawings don't call it a receiver, they will call it the "body". We have pretty well most of the factory drawings for the parts, but we're not willing to share them at this time.
  4. We regularly export firearms internationally. Current US State Department Policy does not allow the permanent export of machineguns to those other than Government end users. Tanks and live artillery are OK though. I'm sure there are exceptions made in some circumstances, but if I tried to put an application through for your situation, there's no way they'd approve it. As others have mentioned, you'd be better to cash out here and buy what you need there.
  5. All rivets appear to be original. Chamber is an clean as a whistle. We even checked with a borescope to make sure. Gun is English manufacture, no idea what country it was imported from. Might well have been India.
  6. No small hole on this one. It came with the standard T-stock. Interestingly, none of the loop stocks I have will fit, and would need material ground off of their locking lug in order to fit in place. Everything else on the gun look good - well as much as it can for a STEN MkIII.
  7. Billy, not a big deal. It doesn't hurt to bounce something off of folks before doing it. For all I knew there might have been some other solution that I hadn't thought of.
  8. As another poser mentioned. The STEN MkIII receiver is built as an assembly, and the barrel is riveted in place with a number of rivets. Yes we can replace it, but I think it is easy to fix the chamber.
  9. That's exactly what I was thinking. We've done it before on other guns with damaged chambers and it's worked fine. I'm not seeing any damage to the chamber, so assuming it is a manufacturing defect. We tried Swiss Gecco, Federal 9mm and British MK2Z and none of them would chamber properly. A 9mm headspace gauge won't go in either so that's pretty conclusive.
  10. That's exactly what I proposed. It doesn't hurt Jim, We order customer reamers and gauges all the time, the problem with a custom 9mm pull style reamer is that it would be quite expensive and based on current items we have on order would take 3 months plus to get.
  11. I have an original STEN MkIII with an extremely tight chamber. Unlike our STEN MkII and every other 9mm SMG we have, a round will not seat fully in the chamber. You have to push it in to fully seat it, then it needs to be levered out. The chamber is clean and free from burrs. I get the feeling that it might have left the factory that way, as the gun is very clean and has seen little use. Testing with Dykem shows the chamber too small near the rifling. The above problem causes stovepipe jams. You can't get through a mag without dozens of jams. I was debating taking a 9mm chamber reamer and trying to fix the chamber, but as the barrel is fixed in the MKIII I'd have to go through the back and use a T-handle extension - and of course the ejector is in the way. In the MkIII it's riveted in place, so I'd have to remove that rivet. Rather not do that unless I have to. Suggestions anyone?
  12. Opps, missed one. http://www.tornado-technologies.com/SA/ANZAC2015/OMC04.jpg
  13. Yeah, sorry about that. Been extremely busy with business. I've been slowly compiling reference material. Had 2 trips to SAF Lithgow in the last few years, and was able to photograph an extremely rare example in an Australia Police reference collection I was granted access to. I was wanting to publish but haven't decided on the best place. At this point I've actually got enough reference material for a book. Generally speak I'd like to keep that stuff unpublished for the moment, but here's something to tide you over in the mean time from a photo shoot we did several years ago. http://www.tornado-technologies.com/SA/ANZAC2015/OMC01.jpg http://www.tornado-technologies.com/SA/ANZAC2015/OMC02.jpg http://www.tornado-technologies.com/SA/ANZAC2015/OMC03.jpg http://www.tornado-technologies.com/SA/ANZAC2015/OMC05.jpg http://www.tornado-technologies.com/SA/ANZAC2015/OMC06.jpg http://www.tornado-technologies.com/SA/ANZAC2015/OMC07.jpg http://www.tornado-technologies.com/SA/ANZAC2015/OMC08.jpg http://www.tornado-technologies.com/SA/ANZAC2015/OMC09.jpg http://www.tornado-technologies.com/SA/ANZAC2015/OMC10.jpg http://www.tornado-technologies.com/SA/ANZAC2015/OMC11.jpg
  14. I know of at least 12 C&R transferables, including a MkII trials gun, and another 4 transferable tube guns. I suspect there's probably a lot more than that out there. They're something people tend to hang onto as they're so unique. It never ceases to amaze me what can come out of the woodwork. I'd all but given up on finding a pre or post sample Australia F1, then was amazed to see one show up at auction when Evergreen Aviation folded. A transferable to boot. Unfortunately is sold for way out of my price range at auction. But gee, who'd have thought a transferable amnesty register F1 would show up.
  15. You probably don't have any of this any more, but for what it's worth: 2. FND Trigger group. 3. Yugo 49 barrel. 4. Yugo 49 lower. 5. PPSh-41 Lower Housing
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