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chkdsk /r After the latest windows update last week or two ago, the bloody machine died on a stop error after it was bounced. Ran chkdsk from the server disc, since some phd permanently borrowed my 2000 professional, and it saved my fat from the fire ... after running 5 hours. Then I nicked the boss's seagate external since he was out of town as usual and backed the whole thing up, registry and all. THese are pretty slick units, no hassle to hook up. While I had everything critical in sourcesafe or elsewhere, the idea of rebuilding the whole thing from scratch and putting all my software tools back on was making me weep.

That was as painful as a humpback PhilOhio.

If the Kahr acts up it can be fixed, either by Kahr or PK. I think they charge a bit more than they should, but so do others. Pot metal screws are expensive you know. So is CNC even though you skip the final fitting of parts because you'e got your tolerances down to an f. Anyway, I'm happy with mine, I have had work done on it like Grey Crow, and that has made it more appreciable. To me. To hell with anyone else, its not their gun http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/wink.gif

I did something similar with a ball peen hammer, then tried to hide it with a dremel before I sent it to PK. Yes I know I'm full of sh... http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/blink.gif

That's pretty d_ funny http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif

QUOTE i know someones going to prob flame this post to death now, but whatever Why? You've a right to an opinion. And the right to express it at the polls. Anything less is not the spirit of our constitution. I don't like or trust Kerry- when he and others had the power to make a stand they acquiesced, now they are angry?? If you give a man a blank cheque for war, you'd best not come round later on whinging because the cheque was cashed. Alas old Cheney. Used to be, they say, that you could bribe a Wyoming state legislator for the cost of a lunch, but after Dick got in their, it cost a whole lot more. Say, lets talk religion, lol.....

But you can't carry a Thompson! http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/ohmy.gif Then again, if Mel Gibson could have 'outlawed pipes' in the time of Wallace, a Thompson in the revolution is not nearly as phantasmagoric. http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif Did you know people in London were killed protesting George IIIs war against the colonies? The war was not as entirely popular as our history sometimes paints it. People are just not quite as stupid as the ruling classes sometimes wish they were.

QUOTE Wish I wasn't so fat and old ......can't play a Para at my age.... Trust me, that's not a disqualification.....we had to send someone back to make sure this one guy hadn't shuffled off this mortal coil. Truth is after slogging through the fog and snow, even the younger guys still trained up by the service were panting. Admittedly I've seen some reenacted paras that would have required shortening the sticks to keep the plane from being over load, but what the hell, unless you are doing a public display, where some veracity of appearance should be maintained, who cares...http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/wink.gif

I keep a brass enfield oiler and a pull through in mine, but that's what I have plenty of.

Frank, I had the comp moved back over the barrel, but left the barrel at 16 ". Easier to clean the comp if I ever shoot unjacketed bullets. http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/wink.gif Yeah, I realized after I posted you'd meant to do a bit more fitting, mine has the gap. You should know deerslayer made that longer horizontal grip, which helps make the barrel look shorter too. But thanks, I like how it turned out very much.

So you thought you'd take the mickey..... http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/dry.gif

For information only- in the picture below is a 27 with detacheable stock. About 300 total including stock, hardware and proper fitting of the adapter plate by PK, including replacing the screws that came with the plate with better quality ones. I am not attempting to disparage anyone, just showing you choices. Ignore the monkey in the picture. http://wsvl-web1.uwyo.edu/tab/monk1bw.jpg

Almost as good as building your dreamhouse next to a pig farm that's 100 years old, then trying to force the farmer to relocate because the smell prevents you enjoying your bacon and eggs in the morning. The other side of the urban migration is many come to the country and take up shooting without any idea of proper safety or etiquette, and then the Forest Service closes public land to recreational shooting. Rather than arresting the offenders for reckless endangerment, wanton destruction, or wildlife harassment. Nearly every spring i go up and haul bags of trash out- spent cases, empty cartridge boxes, etc. It reflects badly on all of us that enjoy shooting.

That last sums it up well. Walter, no offence here, and the gopher hole remark was a bit tongue in cheek. We have a responsibility to vote, and hopefully after some thoughtfulness. For the reasons you pointed out. But it is a difficult choice these days. One thing about the dog Phil- he cares not what I say, but what I do. http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/wink.gif T

QUOTE You guys are forgetting one key element. The party with whom you would be making this wonderful agreement, a paragon of virtue, is known as "Your Government". You should be careful Phil, I was laughing so hard I almost forgot to read the rest of your post. I was watching, inadvertently, some CNN reports the other night while fiddling with my buckaroo leather. If I now stick my head in a gopher hole Walter, its because I don't want to hear the conceit and dissembling, whether from a pack of self-satisfied liberals who've no idea where their food comes from since they've never had to butcher what's on their table, or defenders of a king who seeks to bestride the will of his own people brandishing a quirt braided of fear and innuendo. Who also have no idea where their food comes from, but appear to get plenty of it nonetheless. Such leaves some of us sitting on a barbed wire fence ... I do admire my dog's detachment from these subjects, helps keep things in perspective. t

I'll be da-ned. The New Yorker from Minnesota voted nay. Sadly, there seems a very clear division in states, and it would seem along rural versus urban lines. I wonder how long Feinstein would last on these high plains where 30 miles is nothing and nature doesn't care about race, creed, politics or gender or religion.... Beauty is never so poignant as when its raiments offer no security. You'd think some people would want to live forever in a zoo from the asinine fearful laws they try to pass. And that would be a non partisan statement. T

Not that this needs prolonging, but on the subject of parts- when the extractor broke i ordered two and asked Kahr to cover one under the warranty- they did. That's all I expected. I didn't tell them to send me some spare screws in case the rear sight base went south. I am sure i will regret that some day, lol. But for the sake of fairness- I bought their gun knowing there were QC issues....they are not the only company that has problems... As to making the gun run, I never intended relying on them or their warranty, and purchased with that knowledge. Had i not been acquainted with others experiences recorded here I might have been unpleasantly surprised, instead I knew what to expect and was not disappointed. And yes, I think it is irritating to spend 8-900 dollars on a gun and know that i may need to put a couple hundred more into it to make it run, or send it back to the shop a few times, but again, this seems to be the way of things too often theses days.

Well you've broken it in a bit haven't you? http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/tongue.gif Glad they fixed it. I would check your sight screws, unless you've already done something with them. A lot of them tend to loosen if not set with loctite or such.

"The strap is from a rig for US field phone wire. I have that strap on my spool of wire and its dated from the 70's." http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif

There's a Canadian forum: Canuck WW2 They might know, it looks like Mills webbing, but not something I've seen before. Could be some European cast off as well.

The only swivel I know that would rotate was that for the sling, just forward of the magazine on a No4 (T). Parker Hale also produced a version, later, taller, so as not to foul on the magazine, but in either case the swivel was on the main guard screw and not suitable for a Thompson. Laidler showed examples of British wood, standard No4 swivels in his photos. Cheaper than Thompson parts, hence instructions to use smle buttplates for repairs as well on the Thompson and Pattern 14.

I would second that suggestion of a spare extractor or two. I have one from Kahr, one from Sarco, both GI.

A sociological problem... Perhaps, and not confined to guns alone. I have some cowboy code here that cost a good deal, like 50 times more than a Kahr, and it has far more stoppages than a Kahr. Myself, though I am not that old, would be ashamed to have sold such muck, but I am not that young either. I don't expect guns, newly made, to work well, there just doesn't seem to be many that do. Well my Remington 700 holds 1/2 moa and sometimes better, but it was lucky lucky. And i'm sure it could do with a bit of professional finishing, but it already shoots better than me. Before buying my 27, I knew, thanks to this board, what to expect, and who to send it to if it proved beyond the remedies suggested here. I never intended giving Kahr a crack at it. I suppose that enables them, if everyone follows that course. So it goes. As to not being a Thompson: it's not a Thompson. End of that discussion. I, rather, PK, Dan and Phil, made it look outwardly somewhat like one. It does shoot well, and trouble free, which is more important to me than looks, or I'd buy a dummy. t

QUOTE meanwhile a reformed one is better than the original cheese grater Oh yes, very much so. Hopefully I am the only one here stupid enough to have tried shaping his with a dremel. To PK's credit he didn't ask me the really embarrassing questions I deserved. Dremels ought to be registered. http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/tongue.gif

To be sure Raphael, I had many of the same problems as yourself. The drum problem in particular is familiar, but rather than try and fix it, I just sent the whole works to PK in Colorado. I have now a reliable gun that I also like quite a bit. Yes, it costs money, but in a way its an investment, besides I'm happy with the gun now, its not just some piece of mass produced junk anymore. I didn't trust kahr to fix it properly either, which mayn't be fair, but when you release a product as buggy as an MS operating system, you must expect people to look askance.