www.MG42.us

A variety of rebuild parts are here, but many are out of stock. You're getting into the game pretty late. Some people on here bought extra parts. Post a want to buy ad.

https://www.robertrtg.com/store/pc/Rece ... iewAll=yes

Uh,huh. Mine is original. I even have a matching number barrael.

There are a few on gunbroker.com

Pictures weren't working on this board - that's been fixed now.

Not sure what's going on. None of the pictures are showing up. I'm working on it.

UPDATE Nov. 26, 3:25 AM: There was a corrupt file in the system software which has been replaced. Pictures are working again now.

Are you talking about the cam piece that the top cover hinges on?

Pictures didn't appear... how big are they?

You had the opportunity to edit your message for the first hour or so after posting.

Just post another message and put the pictures in it. I'll delete the first message later.

Pictures have been restored on page 1 of this thread.

The pictures that were available are restored here now.

Pictures are restored on this thread.

l'm still recovering some MG42 related pictures from files saved by KarlT. Other things are most likely gone.

This board crashed again. Apparently the web server had been screwing up for a while. The board was recovered with a mix of pieces from different backups. If you still have the pics, I'll put them where back in the messages they are associated with. Or you can repost and tell me which old messages t...

Another typically fine research job on the lafette spare bolt box by Bergflak.

Pics have been restored in this thread

More pictures restored in this thread.

I'm sure it will take more than a few months of spare time (I have no spare time) to get all the pictures that I now have restored, BUT I have restored the pictures in the messages back to this thread (over an hour of work), THANKS TO KarlT from this board for preserving a lot of the old threads and...

Just so more people know, I've translated the 186 page M53 repair manual, and besides the gun information, it contains the complete lafette repair information with exploded diagrams of all the parts, with details about the belt loader too. If you liked Orins Yugo manual, this is 10 times better sinc...

The board was restored from a few different sources, some of them may have been from last January. It's my guess that when everything matches up, it made it where the board is now. If some of the pieces are missing from last January, maybe it can only work starting at where all the pieces sync, whic...

Yup, we lost about 10 days. Had to use a backup from before the web hosting server started screwing up.