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jbaum wrote:To answer Tom's question a little (lot) late, no, this isn't covered in any manual I've seen.

Guten Morgen John! Und.......Fliegen Sie noch? ;-) ;-)

"Hitler!" ;-)

Cartridges. Take it in context with line following.

You say that as if you don't already think that of all japanese production of type98's or type 1's??? Just testing your reaction time.....impact to detonation......you pass. ;-) I only know of ONE type 1(army) that has a 1944 date, all others are 1945 dated, regardless of how close the serial numbe...

That Type 1/II is pretty close to my serial number......interesting. Would seem to indicate the change to the front jacket cooling holes vs, slots occurred over a small serial number range.....Also, I am starting to believe that ALL Yokosuka Type 1's retained the wooden rear receiver cover over the ...

Two thoughts come to mind......
One. It may have been a field repair to stop the propogation of an incipient crack, by drilling a stress relief hole at the crack.
Two, it may have been an expedient relief hole to vent or drain water if the gun had been used in a particularly wet environment.
-TomH

The mark is one used by Pyrkal/EBO, aka Hellenic Arsenals, the Greek combine that made the MG3 under license.
-TomH

Type 89 was made as a single, and a twin, and there were two types of 89s, but they are a unique Japanese MGs, neither type made by any other country. One type takes a 1/3 of a circle shaped drum and the other uses a drum much like the Vickers AFV LMG, similar to the Lewis drum. Bob So then.....how...

Type 89. .....wish it was for a 98!! Neat folding mechanism, though. :-)

You bastage!! I am -SO- jealous........

Send it to me, I will make sure you don't lose it. ;-)

-TomH

No, this has not happened....yet. Due to recent workloads picking up dramtically, it had to take a back seat to other work. I still am planning on doing it, I feel there is enough interest here to warrant a short run of each type, it's just going to be hard to get it fit into the planning for awhile...

Grüße Thomas!! Fühlen sie frei, sich auf deutsch zu unterhalten; Es gibt ein paar von uns hier, der es genießt. Wenn sie über unsere deutschen sprachfähigkeiten nicht lachen, versprechen wir, über Ihr English nicht zu lachen! ;-) Was das visier abgebildet, ist es ganz genau das, für eine MG15. Von d...

All the M4 series, and the earlier M3 series from which they were based on, share a common final drive arrangement, i.e, a forward mounted transmission and the front drive sprocket arrangement. Your model there is, essentially, about as close as you can reasonably expect to come from a generic model...

Okay....been away for awhile. It is not an early A1; the tell-tale characteristic of the early A1 was the installation of two, fixed firing M1919A5 guns(fixed as in bolted in place in both azimuth and elevation, i.e, no way of moving the gun to aim save moving the hull), to the left(center hull) of ...

sbl11 wrote:Here you go Tom!

Ich wusste nicht euch geboten, die deutsches sprache so gut sowieso! Vielleicht, müssen wir all dies in einer weise.......fortsetzen? Wie bei Godwin's Law....so aufgerufen sie kennen die diskussion jetzt beendet ist? ;-)
-TomH

sbl11 wrote:I will most likely use this forum as more of a data dump of all the info I find.

-seth

I am amazed that approaching 20 pages now in this thread.........someone has not yet managed to invoke Godwin's Law. ;-)

-TomH

I did not want this to just fade away. Is this going to happen? Any progress? :cheer: Patience, grasshopper. ;-) I indicated that I wanted this to let run a couple weeks to see who all was interested........it's only been a few days. I am busier than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chai...

Oh yeah, Seth, I've always believed they had imported some certain quantities of actual MG15 long before any indigenous production of Type 1/Type 98 guns was ever attempted. For one, it seems almost all Type 1/Type 98 production took place well into the second half of the War, and there certainly ex...

this is a picture I bought off ebay a few days ago! It just goes to show that there are more photos out there of the type 98 than I once imagined. I hadn't seen this one before. -seth Well, the Scarf-ring mount and the compensating wind vane sights are straight commercial pre-War stuff, not AT ALL ...

sbl11 wrote:Here is the video of my first attempt to create a dual mount for my type 1 and type 98:

Oh, my, my, my.......Seth...we need to talk. At length. And then some. ;-) ;-)

-TomH (who simultaneously advises to never try and shoot an MG81Z from the hip)