IMA has rear reciever sheetmetal.

cleansweep13 · Post by **cleansweep13** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 1:11 am

Thats just plain wrong for one guy to have all those receiver pieces. I hate you! And yes deep down I wish that was my stash!

Post by **hakentt** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 1:40 am

cleansweep13 wrote:Thats just plain wrong for one guy to have all those receiver pieces. I hate you! And yes deep down I wish that was my stash!

All you need is one. Hey, you are in arizona, phoenix area? Maybe we can help each other out.

none123 · Post by **none123** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 1:44 am

cleansweep13 wrote:Thats just plain wrong for one guy to have all those receiver pieces. I hate you! And yes deep down I wish that was my stash!

I finally dug through my mg42 pile (it's rather large) and thats what came out... you'd really hate me if you knew how little $ it cost me to get them. best of all one of the receivers is going to a 07/sot friend of mine...it's good to have friends...that have a sot....

none123 · Post by **none123** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 1:55 am

hakentt wrote:
All you need is one.

thats what i thought................................................... as you can see they are addicting

Post by **fjruple** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 5:44 am

Yea- You can get rich if you could make semi-auto MG42/MG3/MG53 Yugo stamped receivers.

Post by **blckwlfny** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 10:07 pm

Their still there, has anyone noticed that the pics of those received by us and seem to show much less metal that those on the IMA site?
Does this pi**-off anyone else as much as me?

041x · Post by **041x** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 11:46 pm

Mine had more metal then the one in the picture

Cpt_Kirks · Post by **Cpt_Kirks** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 1:36 pm

I finally got a chance to clean mine up. A lot of grinding. I drilled out the rivets and got the rail and recuperator bits out and ran a power wire brush all over them.

Once you get the slag and rust off, they look pretty good.

Still going to take a LOT of work to put together.

MSG · Post by **MSG** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 5:52 pm

Guys... I'm working on it. But these things take time.

MSG

Post by **Demontrooper** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 11:25 am

Just bought mine, hand select $135 ones, I will post pics when they come. I am planning for using them on my semi-project. This late in the buying zone, things could get interesting.

PvtJoker · Post by **PvtJoker** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 12:39 pm

OK; since we're all showing our IMA receivers, here's what I got from them. Hope this isn't too many photos, or too big. They are linked off of Photobucket, so if the size or number is a problem, Tom, please let me know and I will pull them.

Does anyone want another particular angle/view that I missed? I'll also try and get some photos of the SOG Yugo kit on as well, if anyone wants to see what shape that it came in.

Post by **Demontrooper** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 1:31 pm

Wow, thanks those are very cool photo's! The receiver looks buildable... will you use it for a semi build? How will you remove the rails and the recouperator (if you intend to do so)? Post pics when (if) you clean it!

PvtJoker · Post by **PvtJoker** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 1:47 pm

I'm planning on using it for a semi-build, once i can get the nose and cam section to go with my kit. Then I'll get one of the bolt and FCG conversions, do the mods, and weld it up. I just hope that I can get ahold of the missing parts I need for the receiver build.

Post by **Demontrooper** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 1:58 pm

Jeeze, same thing as me! I just don't know when I will borrow all of the equipment and start this project. It would be great if we were neighbors (I'm a New Yorker), then we could work on our projects side by side since we are doing the same exact thing with our semi builds.

PvtJoker · Post by **PvtJoker** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 3:52 pm

Well, in my case, the equipment for the build is not (hopefully) goin to be a problem, since a good friend of mine has a complete machine shop with a big tig welder that he uses for building custom bikes. He's not cheap, but he is good- rather a perfectionist, if anything- but without the parts, welding is useless and machining them all myself is probably beyond my skill level, if I can find them already made. I am wondering about doing the riveting, though. I don't have a rivet gun except for a cheesey little pop rivet tool, and that is about as useful as teats on a boar hog for this build. :-P But as they say, getting there is half the fun and most of the budget.

Post by **IMBLITZVT** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 4:00 pm

Seeing this thread makes me pat myself on the back for buying a Dangola 3 cut kit... it also makes me kick myself in the ass for not buying all the 3 cut receivers I could at $250 each!!!!!!!! I would be rich!

Post by **Demontrooper** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 11:03 pm

'sigh..' the good old days are gone my friends. I watched the great MG42 kits get sold out, and the prices double up and more. Those were in the days when I was too young to buy guns. But I am an optimist, so I am at least glad that I am around during the dying throes of a Golden Era for MG42 collectors.

none123 · Post by **none123** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 3:10 am

Demontrooper wrote:'sigh..' the good old days are gone my friends. I watched the great MG42 kits get sold out, and the prices double up and more. Those were in the days when I was too young to buy guns. But I am an optimist, so I am at least glad that I am around during the dying throes of a Golden Era for MG42 collectors.

you mean last fall?

PvtJoker · Post by **PvtJoker** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 10:14 am

More like last week! What time is it?

Post by **Demontrooper** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 12:23 pm

Last fall? What are you referring to?