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- Mon May 01, 2023 8:38 am
- Forum: MG34 Accessories
- Topic: Ammo belt I’d please MG34?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1031
Re: Ammo belt I’d please MG34?
The links that fully surround the cartridges like that means that the cartridge had to be extracted from the belt by pulling it rearward. The only German guns I know of that do that are the Maxim series - the MG08 and MG08/15.
- Sat Apr 29, 2023 4:29 pm
- Forum: For Sale
- Topic: Original MG81 manual
- Replies: 5
- Views: 992
Original MG81 manual
I'm always looking for more German manuals to translate, but this one is a one of. I know there are a couple of these guns in private hands... Here's something I've never seen before: An ORIGINAL MG81 manual. Not cheap, just never saw one, even not for sale. https://www.ebay.de/itm/255754411632?hash...
- Sun Mar 19, 2023 12:24 am
- Forum: MG42 General Discussion
- Topic: heart attack
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5587
Re: heart attack
I spent some days on a 1931 Cadillac Phaeton that was taken to a big show in Florida. A Phaeton is a convertible but doesn't have roll up side windows. The top has side curtains that hang down and snap on with windows in them. Imagine a Jeep soft top, but on a bigger car. The owner called me from Fl...
- Thu Mar 16, 2023 3:47 am
- Forum: MG42 General Discussion
- Topic: heart attack
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5587
Re: heart attack
Kidney stone - That sucks. My wife has had a few, and one was so painful that the doctor took a look at her and told the nurse to get fentanyl for her. Yup, she got a legal dose. Knocked down the pain in about 10 seconds. Another one she had came out from riding with me on a back road in my Rav4. No...
- Wed Mar 15, 2023 9:43 pm
- Forum: MG42 General Discussion
- Topic: heart attack
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5587
Re: heart attack
I think one is a 38 Packard 180. I put a police siren/PA system in it so the guy could use it in political rallies and parades. They still used 6 volt positive ground systems then, so I had to put in a 6 to 12 volt transformer and keep the 12V system electrically isolated from the body, since all th...
- Fri Mar 03, 2023 10:38 am
- Forum: MG34 Accessories
- Topic: Gr vorratskasten fur MG Lafette 34
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1723
Re: Gr vorratskasten fur MG Lafette 34
I have to wonder what your camera is doing when it takes the picture. If it has automatic settings, it will decrease the quality of the picture if the light is low. Use a flash if your camera has that. Try it with more light (perhaps in the sun?) and we'll see what happens.
- Thu Mar 02, 2023 7:41 pm
- Forum: MG34 Accessories
- Topic: Gr vorratskasten fur MG Lafette 34
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1723
Re: Gr vorratskasten fur MG Lafette 34
Are you using a phone or a computer to upload the files? the file you sent me is 500 dpi, which is good, but it's 7" high and 5" wide. Can't read it.
- Wed Mar 01, 2023 12:47 pm
- Forum: MG34 Accessories
- Topic: Gr vorratskasten fur MG Lafette 34
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1723
Re: Gr vorratskasten fur MG Lafette 34
In both photos, it looks like there is something printed on the back of the page. Is the sheet able to be removed from the envelope that it is in? If your camera can be set at a higher resolution (maybe 600) that would help a lot. When I try to zoom in on the 350dpi photos, it goes blurry very quick...
- Wed Mar 01, 2023 9:34 am
- Forum: Wanted
- Topic: Looking for an original MG AA tripod with a MG34 cradle
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1130
Re: Looking for an original MG AA tripod with a MG34 cradle
Last one of those I saw for sale was years ago... Even a reproduction top mount is expensive. An original tripod isn't too tough to find, but not cheap anymore either. The mounts are easy to change on the tripod, so even if you find just the mount, grab it.
- Tue Feb 28, 2023 8:25 pm
- Forum: MG34 Accessories
- Topic: Gr vorratskasten fur MG Lafette 34
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1723
Re: Gr vorratskasten fur MG Lafette 34
5 megapixel is what the 5 means. That would be good. I had to cut down the other pictures to under 1 meg in size to get them posted on Axis History. The software for their board (same as this board) can be set to limit the maximum file size. To get 1 meg or smaller files, I reduced pixels per inch t...
- Tue Feb 28, 2023 1:22 pm
- Forum: MG42 General Discussion
- Topic: heart attack
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5587
Re: heart attack
I need to sell manuals at a couple shows. It's good advertising, even if I don't sell much at the show itself, I get sales later. It's just a matter of a gun show being big enough and close enough to make it worth doing. The reenactments at Rockford, IL and at Conneaut, OH are great, but there aren'...
- Tue Feb 28, 2023 10:26 am
- Forum: MG34 Accessories
- Topic: Gr vorratskasten fur MG Lafette 34
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1723
Re: Gr vorratskasten fur MG Lafette 34
This picture is 1.8 inches wide in true size... That's a little too small to read. When I enlarge it it just goes too blurry to read.
- Mon Feb 27, 2023 5:06 pm
- Forum: MG42 General Discussion
- Topic: MG42 / M53 Pressure Plate Problem
- Replies: 6
- Views: 837
Re: MG42 / M53 Pressure Plate Problem
I'm not seeing any obvious difference. Here's a picture of my gun set up for .308. This is in high-res so click on it to blow it up.
- Mon Feb 27, 2023 2:40 pm
- Forum: MG42 General Discussion
- Topic: MG42 / M53 Pressure Plate Problem
- Replies: 6
- Views: 837
Re: MG42 / M53 Pressure Plate Problem
There's the odd shaped spring (#4) for that... I"m talking about the small coil spring - #5 in the picture, with the arrow. It's what stops the pressure plate from moving fore and aft.
- Mon Feb 27, 2023 2:36 pm
- Forum: MG34 Accessories
- Topic: Gr vorratskasten fur MG Lafette 34
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1723
Re: Gr vorratskasten fur MG Lafette 34
Done. Glad to help.
How about a close-up picture of the small parts box listing?
How about a close-up picture of the small parts box listing?
- Mon Feb 27, 2023 10:44 am
- Forum: MG42 General Discussion
- Topic: MG42 / M53 Pressure Plate Problem
- Replies: 6
- Views: 837
Re: MG42 / M53 Pressure Plate Problem
You know there's supposed to be a coil spring that goes on the long pin to hold the pressure plate in the correct location, right?
Here's a blow up-parts diagram from manual PDV 918 that shows the assembly.
Click on the photo to enlarge it.
Here's a blow up-parts diagram from manual PDV 918 that shows the assembly.
Click on the photo to enlarge it.
- Mon Feb 27, 2023 10:41 am
- Forum: Wanted
- Topic: WTB: Pressure Plate Gauge
- Replies: 2
- Views: 577
Re: WTB: Pressure Plate Gauge
I've sold all the gauges I had made, but Kevin W Strout from Strout Family FIrearms has made some on his 3-D printer and has them for sale.
He can be contacted at: kwstrout@fairpoint.net
Strout Family Firearms
146 Tucker Rd
Limington, ME 04049
www.stroutfamilyfirearms.com
He can be contacted at: kwstrout@fairpoint.net
Strout Family Firearms
146 Tucker Rd
Limington, ME 04049
www.stroutfamilyfirearms.com
- Sun Feb 26, 2023 8:08 pm
- Forum: MG42 General Discussion
- Topic: heart attack
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5587
Re: heart attack
I'm about half way back to normal, but it's slow progress. I'm gaining endurance faster that I did with getting over throat cancer, but I'm not 30 years old anymore, so healing will take some time yet. I'd have preferred going to SOS, but I knew that it would run me into the ground, so I had to pass...
- Sun Feb 19, 2023 10:05 am
- Forum: MG34 Accessories
- Topic: Gr vorratskasten fur MG Lafette 34
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1723
Re: Gr vorratskasten fur MG Lafette 34
Glad to see you back Tim. Lots of health problems have visited people in the last year. Good to see you're still around. Wow, just wow. GREAT stuff. I never saw a parts kit like that with all the compartments full. That's the same dated edition of D166/1 that I translated years ago (2006). It was th...
- Sat Jan 28, 2023 9:35 am
- Forum: MG42 General Discussion
- Topic: MG 08/15 - Need Advice
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2425
Re: MG 08/15 - Need Advice
I scan the photos at 600 dpi, and use Photoshop to enhance them, and I print the manuals at 1200 dpi. Every photo is the best it can be, but some of them were really crap to start with, and I can only do so much. Often the pictures in the translation are better than they were in the originals. My wi...