stingray656667 Posted June 25, 2019 Report Share Posted June 25, 2019 Hello, Are there any sources (members or otherwise) for an M1 kit in nice shape? Please pm me if availability of a kit is known. Thank you. stingray656667 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thompsonteenager Posted June 25, 2019 Report Share Posted June 25, 2019 ima-usa.com has some Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingray656667 Posted June 28, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 28, 2019 Thank you for the reply but IMA seems to only have 1928 parts kits. stingray656667 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giantpanda4 Posted June 28, 2019 Report Share Posted June 28, 2019 This guy IIRC is a member here and posted these a while ago. Seems he has a lot of M1 parts kits. https://www.gunbroker.com/item/816025989 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
full auto 45 Posted June 29, 2019 Report Share Posted June 29, 2019 This guy IIRC is a member here and posted these a while ago. Seems he has a lot of M1 parts kits. https://www.gunbroker.com/item/816025989 Now we know who was the horder of all of the M1 kits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bridgeport28A1 Posted June 29, 2019 Report Share Posted June 29, 2019 This guy IIRC is a member here and posted these a while ago. Seems he has a lot of M1 parts kits. https://www.gunbroker.com/item/816025989 Now we know who was the horder of all of the M1 kits. Bob Bowman is an importer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Mills Posted June 29, 2019 Report Share Posted June 29, 2019 Yep, Bob has been around a long time. Military contractor, etc. Good guy, honest dealings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reconbob Posted June 30, 2019 Report Share Posted June 30, 2019 (edited) I looked at that auction - no bolt, no extractor. Is a barrel included?The reason I ask is he says you can get barrels from APEX and whyeven mention that unless you will need one? Has anyone tried the drop in bolt conversion? I mean actuallydone the conversion and fired off a couple thousand rounds? I bringthis up because a while back we experimented with deactivating theH-lock on a M1928A1 by machining off the wings of the H-lock andpinning it to the actuator and the bolt body. The result was that the recoilforce on the actuator sheared off the pin. My point being that it maynot be as simple as it is made out to be. M1928A1 bolts are quite hard and the only way you are going to be able to remove thecircular area in the photo is with tungsten carbide or grinding - notexactly accurate. Also it states that this drop in piece "mostly" takescare of the conversion - meaning? I notice that you have to buy this Drop-in extra as opposed to it being included in the kit. If this drop-in was a reasonable, do-able project the guy would bedoing it himself and selling converted M1928A1 bolts ready to go.But he's not. Aha. If I have got this wrong and this conversion is easy to do andworks great and holds up let me know. Until then caveat emptor. Bob Edited June 30, 2019 by reconbob 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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