Frank Iannamico

I don't know that any specific sling was made for the limited production of the UD42, the ones that I have seen,, used M1 carbine slings. As did M3 grease guns.

There are old SAR articles on those guns... Auto Ordnance T2; http://archive.smallarmsreview.com/display.article.cfm?idarticles=2189 BSA Thompson: I can't find this one, but it is in the book American Thunder FG 42: http://archive.smallarmsreview.com/display.article.cfm?idarticles=2731

Those are all from West PA..

Type 68 article http://archive.smallarmsreview.com/display.article.cfm?idarticles=1150

Is the mag catch US GI? If it isn't replace it with one, WH mag catches can be a problem.

Those are Russian, they came back in the crates with the (Lend Lease) Thompsons that were imported back from Russia a few years ago.

Thank you for that article because it listed the year of Mfg by SN and now I know when mine was made and I found a source for a compensator replacement. Glad it was useful, If you do a search there are a lot of old Reising articles there. Funny story about that year of manufacture list. I tried for years to get that from ATF via contacts and the FOIA, no luck citing it was tax information. Then a Reising owner, who was a Michigan police officer, told me he had the list. He said he called ATF and they Faxed it to him.

Frank, Thanks for sending those articles. I've been doing an awful lot of reading (here on the forum and out on the internet) trying to learn everything I can....but had not seen those articles yet. Very helpful !! Gene Type Thompson in the search feature you will find a LOT of Thompson article, there was one issue of the (paper) magazine that was dedicated only to Thompsons, but I don't know if it has been posted on their site yet. They no longer publish the paper magazine, but everything is online and its free.

Suppressed Reising article http://archive.smallarmsreview.com/display.article.cfm?idarticles=4066

I suggest reading Tom Davis' series in SAR magazine on the West Hurley Thompsons. You can find most of the articles on line, its now free, but it only seems to work with the Fire Fox browser or Safari A few; the search feature will probably find more http://archive.smallarmsreview.com/display.article.cfm?idarticles=4049 http://archive.smallarmsreview.com/display.article.cfm?idarticles=224 http://archive.smallarmsreview.com/display.article.cfm?idarticles=527

UPDATE... The last time I had my Reising out was a few years ago at Tracie's TSMG shoot, and I was shooting it suppressed, which as you know gets everything behind the suppressor DIRTY, well I confess that when I came home I put the gun away without cleaning it. SO, I gave it a good cleaning and now it functions flawlessly.

RE: I have tried shortening Keystone's titanium firing pins to function as inertia firing pins to stop breakage OWEVER, at least once a mag in full-auto I get a light primer hit. Perhaps the titanium pins are too light to reliably function as an inertia system pins? as anyone had 100% success converting a titanium firing pin to the inertial system described here: Firing pin UPDATE... Well I installed a unaltered full-length titanium firing pin. But still had an occasional light firing pin hit stoppage on full-auto. Upon the stoppage I removed the stock and checked. The round was chambered, the bolt was fully closed and the hammer was against the bolt. Extracted the round and found a light firing pin hit. All the other rounds that fired had deep primer fp hits. I have replaced the springs, action bar, bolt and hammer still have the same intermittent problem. If I rechamber the same round it fires. The gun functions okay on semi-auto. Anyone have a similar experience?

http://www.sturmgewehr.com/forums/index.php?/topic/27565-thompson-1928-bolts/

I have tried shortening Keystone's titanium firing pins to function as inertia firing pins to stop breakage HOWEVER, at least once a mag in full-auto I get a light primer hit. Perhaps the titanium pins are too light to reliably function as an inertia system pins? Has anyone had 100% success converting a titanium firing pin to the inertial system described here: http://www.machinegunboards.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=8854

A letter from Colt to Savage dated 1939

Has anyone been to the Army Museum at Fort Belvoir? its not far from the Marine Corps Museum. https://www.thenmusa.org/visit/

One wall of the Rock Island Weapons display...

A friend of mine visited Ft Lee a few years ago, he said most of the stuff from Aberdeen was still in crates. Aberdeen had a nice weapons museum and lots of armor outside. I remember that at one time Aberdeen was planning a huge indoor display area for the armor because the weather was taking its toll, it never happened. Another decent museum was the one at Fort Knox, most of it was moved, I think, to Fort Benning, GA Rock Island had a pretty good weapons display and they had note books explaining some history about each weapon, but a lot of it was inaccurate. The museum was on the base and you had to have a background check done to get there. The base civilian guards did the background checks. There are articles on most of the museums in back issues of SAR. The online articles seem to be missing some photos... Rock Island Museum article: http://archive.smallarmsreview.com/display.article.cfm?idarticles=3074 Aberdeen http://archive.smallarmsreview.com/display.article.cfm?idarticles=3907 Ft Benning http://archive.smallarmsreview.com/display.article.cfm?idarticles=226 Quantico http://archive.smallarmsreview.com/display.article.cfm?idarticles=1479 Quantico's vault (not open to the public) http://archive.smallarmsreview.com/display.article.cfm?idarticles=3335 Lots more museum articles http://archive.smallarmsreview.com/search/index.cfm

There are a lot of better in-depth sources for Thompson info than "The Thompson Submachine Gun" book you referred to.

Details and pictures of the Model 6; the military, police and Peruvian versions are in the MAC MAN book.

On broken firing pins, even the new titanium ones, read this informative article. http://www.machinegunboards.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=8854

There was at least one Model 9 (it is covered in the MAC MAN book) as I recall there was just a prototype Model 9 it, and M10 #1, were confiscated in a gov't raid.

Gordon once visited Robert Stack at his home in CA. He sent me a number of pictures taken during his visit. Gordon said that Mr. Stack was very friendly and had invited Gordon to visit him. If I can find the photos I will post them here.

The M3A1 had a different backplate (smaller) so the bolt assembly could be removed without taking off the ejector housing. If you have an M3A1 get and install an M3 backplate... as stated by UZI-John Not to turn this into a Grease Gun discussion... The 38/42 (series) is smaller, lighter and handier than a Beretta 38A

Fed Ex comes anytime between 9am -8pm, never the same driver and they always have trouble finding my house. I hate their "direct signature" because you cannot divert the delivery. You have to be home to sign, sometimes I'll stay home all day waiting and they don't show up, I'll get a text "undeliverable." UPS comes 10:30 - 11:00 same driver for years, and I have his phone #. If there is a signature needed he knows to sign for me. I guess the quality of service depends on where you live. --END OF RANT--