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Hi gents (& ladies if there are any),

Virgin poster to this site. Bear w/me, please. Questions about BRP rear receiver sections they have for sale. Which one would be "better" for a semi MG42, the "scrape" section with rails installed or the receiver halves that need to be welded and rails installed?? They advertise the "scrape" section as not being suitable for a functioning firearms but I seem to remember some posters here commented on using them, but I might be mistaken. To me the two halves look promising. Would appreciate any info or first hand experience with either of them.

I have a tig, bridgeport and a couple decades metalworking experience so working with either option should not be a problem. Any info is much appreciated. Thxz again......and great site Salt6

Welcomme to the site! I don't think BRP is selling the rear sections anymore. your best
bet is to get a complete cut receiver.

if they got it get the scrap

i got one of the rear "scrap" sections w/ rails installed. i see no reason why it would have been considered unusable for a live gun. You still need a "trunion" section ( if you are planning on using a century kit) and from what I heard they are out of them.

if you havent picked up a kit allready IO has the best prices and a complete cut reciver is included

on the scrap rears it seems the holes for the left rail are low

Thxz to all for the input. Not good that BRP might not be selling them anymore. Guess a phone call Monday to them will let me know where I stand. If I could trouble u guys some more, in the event BRP does not sell the rear halves anymore, is there another source?? Once again, thxz for any info.

Tom R, thxz for info re: rails possibly being low on left. If BRP still has em (fingers crossed) that shouldn't be too much of a chore to correct. Thxz

all I did was use a post war left rail and do some file fit on the recouperator, got to tweek gun but it has fired

Sounds good/easy. Thxz

Center X - with your experience and tooling this should be a piece of cake for you. Get a kit from I O before they're gone. My guess is they're the last available source right now and kits like what Dan has coming (Angola) are an unknown factor. I think he said something about the stuff thats coming in January will be Yugoslavian and the price is ??????. Whatever comes in between now and then will be (in my mind) really the last available buildable kits. Prices - I don't want to speculate but the likelihood of looking bact to November (now) and thinking "I should have bought a few more..."

Center X - Yours will come out great, and welcome to the board

Emailed BRP over the weekend asking about recv stuff. Got a quick response back from Brian (Im impressed, it was on a Sunday). Unfortunately they dont have either the halves or 2nd's left. So Im back to square one. I already have two MG 42 sets I bought ten years ago. The receivers are complete/uncut from the trunnion forward and only (yea, ONLY) missing the rear half. I cant see myself buying another set to get the entire demailled recv. I see several requests for receiver parts on the "Wanted to Buy" section, none of them get much response. Im beginning to think I may have to fabricate my own rear half, hmmmmm......

Well, I appreciate all the help. There are lots of gun-related boards out there but u can always tell the good ones by how fast the members respond to cry's for help with a project. This is a good one, easily on par with Roderus. Just stand by to be bothered a bunch more.....now where did I leave those '42 prints....

Center x - Buy one set so at least you have one full reciever. Then sell off the extra parts on this site and recoup the costs of the set. I'll buy the 8mm feed tray right now I might be interested in a spare trigger group as well. Barrels will be gold until someone stateside starts making them (how likely is that?) Even if you don't recoup the full cost of the set - the money not covered is the cost of your receiver.

With a full reciever in hand, you can decide if you want to tackle one from scratch That project would impress a few of us on this site

As I see it the "window of opportunity" is closing fast. If it opens again (January with the last imports?) I'll bet there wil be a jump in price, at least until the dealers see what the market will bear.

Last option? Wait and you'll have two old, incomplete parts kits

People should be all over those 399.00 IO kits. its just 50.00 more than century wants for a kit missing the rear section. It's almost the same price as folks would get for just the stripped reciever. The other parts are good and sellable. I got a ww2 stock in my kit. It's the luck of the draw on parts but I believe you'll see kits over 1000.00 in a couple of years. Look at the mp44 kits now. Right now these are cheaper than yugo RPK kits. Imagine a belt fed cheaper than a long barreled AK.

Thats what I like, great ideas to get my limited brain cells working. Gonna let it stew a bit.

I'm an absolute at this and have yet to get anything to go bang.

The receiver from Weaponeer is together and I'm seeing a bit of light so I ordered 2 I/O kits @$330 ea.

Cleaned them up last night. One's missing a spring and the small bolt at the end of the recuperator is broken off.

The nozzle and barrel bushing are corroded but usable. These are DIRTY. They're really pieced -- I doubt the receiver parts are from the same gun however the cuts are standardized enough so it doesn't make a difference.