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Kit with camming peice still there?
Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 9:22 pm
by boss429
I have a M53 kit that still has the camming peice attached and then some. Is this a common demil? Value?
Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 11:24 pm
by gdmoore28
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When and where did you buy it?
GeeDeeEmm
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 9:26 pm
by boss429
I got this kit early before this board existed
Re: Kit with camming peice still there?
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 10:37 pm
by Sledge303
boss429 wrote:I have a M53 kit that still has the camming peice attached and then some. Is this a common demil? Value?
Working over at "Armory Parts Exchange" (APEX)
http://www.apexgunparts.com/
I have been seeing M53 parts sets with this de-mil lately. They used to be cut further forward on the barrel shroud (IE cut at the place the "Camming Piece" would be installed)
Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 12:26 pm
by Bil
Very nice! Is there any reason that most cuts go right through the cammins piece? Is it some new rule,or just company preferance? ---bil
Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 2:54 am
by Sledge303
Bil wrote:Very nice! Is there any reason that most cuts go right through the cammins piece? Is it some new rule,or just company preferance? ---bil
The pattern any importer uses/follows to de-mil a MG is provided by BATFE. In some cases (most recently the BREN's) the BATFE actually stood watch over the workers running the torches. For the Yugoslavian M53 there are two patterns of de-mil on hand (perhaps one was for the MG42's that came in previously??)
Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 11:25 am
by turbothis
can a kit be sold with the cut up reciever?
Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 1:44 pm
by boss429
turbothis wrote:can a kit be sold with the cut up reciever?
YES
Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 3:39 pm
by johnnymg
question. Is the caming piece the redish part or is it the section of receiver w/ the rec. opening? Is there any part within the receiver that is damaged during de-mil. Sorry for the dumb question, have not received my kits yet to look at first hand.
Johnnymg
Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 5:16 pm
by TOM R
i am not sure why the part is red i have some pieces that have the red haze to them
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 2:37 am
by Sledge303
TOM R wrote:i am not sure why the part is red i have some pieces that have the red haze to them
The usual cause of a "red" colour to metal finish is the lack of proper heating during the blueing process. In the case of the Yugoslavian guns it probably happened during a re-build.