StrangeRanger

Looks like a Soviet era Nagant screwdriver which somehow (I don't remember the reason) ended up being called a Thompson screwdriver How it ended up in a UK made TSMG case I cannot begin to guess

I only had $100 in the magazine; they normally sell for ±$200 so I could afford to spend some money to fix it. I thought that the Sten mandrel inserted upside down might remove the dent but it was nowhere near wide enough. The 18mm round bar set me back $30. It didn't completely solve the crease problem but it proved useful, more on that later. Already had the prybar, all I had to do was grind a very small lead on two of the opposing flats. Hammered it into the mag and dent was essentially gone. My mag lip gauge showed that the feed lips were a skosh too tight. The presentation angle was good but the round was a hair too low, The Sten mandrel is too short to reach the lips on a Lanchester mag but that 18mm round bar inserted in the mag below the mandrel brought it into contact with the lips. One good whack and the lips gauged perfectly.

Test fired it while I was at theat the TCA shoot yesterday. 50 round mag dump without a hiccup. It's fixed

Beyond stupid especially for the Erb gun. There's one on GB now with an opening bid of $22K (and a BIN of $28K which I doubt will happen.) Tube MP40s have been going in the very low 20s until recently and C&Rs were $30K and up, sometimes WAY up. That mixmaster one is the low end of C&R. In this market $32 is close but still may be a bit of a stretch once you factor in all the BS charges that they don't include in the realized price and the fact that they report it as income on a 1099. EDIT: MWT has a non-matching C&R MP40 for $27K

It's not like any of our current members would be disadvantaged by not having an M16 forum here. They could join Uzitalk if they haven't already

I recently purchased a Lanchester mag off GB at a too good to be true price. It was exactly that. It had a crease running lengthwise down one side which was invisible in the photos but deep enough to jam the magazine up if I loaded much more than 25 rounds. I tried driving a piece of 18mm round bar up inside the mag from the bottom keeping it in contact with the internal follower guide ridge. It lessened but did not remove the crease. I have a small pry bar that measures 23/32" (.719" or 18.25mm ) across the flats of the hex. I drove it in again keeping one point of the hex in contact with the guide ridge. It gave a much wider area of contact that reached farther into the magazine space than did the round bar and again it lessened but did not completely eliminate the dent. However it moved the dented side out far enough that the now much smaller dent no longer intruded on the cartridge space in the magazine. I had a dented Sten mag which also benefited from the same treatment. If you have Sten/Lanchester mags with dents in the sides of the tube, this might be worth trying. It might or might also work with the dimensionally similar MP18/28 mags but I cannot say for certain. As always YMMV so proceed with caution

Are you and the other monitors prepared to constantly police the forum to remove posts that do not fit within the narrow guidelines you are proposing?

I'm looking forward to the endless debate about FRTs.....NOT

I vote no. There are plenty of other AR sites and adding an AR forum here might swamp this site with AR fanboys

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I'm a little confused here. There are two L series Wilson/Andrewski Ks sitting on GB for $38.5K asking price Chester County has another L series on their website also at $38.5K ask The RIA gun was probably closer $35K by the time they got through adding all their bullshit charges on top of the buyer's premium That would seem to define the market price So how can you possibly justify $47K for the Poulin gun? "A fool and his money are soon parted"

Actually, the RIA gun may have been a bit too high. Auctions frequently turn out to be dick measuring contests augmented by the "red mist." No way to know for certain in this case. The GB price is just stupid money

If it's a WH gun it is not uncommon, my former WH 28 was almost exactly like that and the burr came off with a file no stoning required

Merely doing the inertial firing pin conversion may help but it does not fix the problem. Shortening the groove in which the retaining pin rides is critical because it limits over-extension of the firing pin. The other critical mod is chamfering the square shoulder behind the firing pin tip. The square shoulder on the Keystone pins sets up a stress concentration in a highly stressed area.

We have a new leader in the "rattiest Sten ever cobbled together by a retarded monkey posing as an SOT" contest https://www.gunbroker.com/item/1172443386 This is from the same seller who listed the "FrankenSchmeisser" Mp28,II made up of mostly Lanchester parts that was welded together with the same care, attention to detail and pride in workmanship we can see in this example. It was bad, pass me a barf bag bad but this one...I don't think that it can get any worse