Trying to locate sten parts and Reising mag

[BIGCHUCK]

Hey friends been a lurker for years trying to locate a sten mk2 bolt and barrel and reising magazine (s) in Canada , I have some good 5/30 sten mags to barter with .
Thanks

[browningautorifle]

I was going to suggest Gunnutz but I see you already have an ad there. There's a bronze bolt over on the 12X sale forum...

[Peter Laidler]

Making a Sten barrel is simplicity itself if you have a 7" length of rifled 9mm blank. From simple to very simple depending on the mark/type you want

[browningautorifle]

a 7" length of rifled 9mm blank.

Or as in past I've made one from a straight tube of barrel and a machined collar like they were apparently done by factory...sweat together, cross pin and go.

[tiriaq]

There have been Sten bits and pieces in the last few auctions. Prices have been insane. A bolt and barrel could exceed $1000.
Making a barrel would certainly be an option. A piece of .35 caliber barrel and a buddy with a lathe and chamber reamer would be needed. If the blank diameter is too small for a one piece barrel, a barrel can be made in two pieces, as many original Mk. II barrels were fabricated. Pretty basic shop operations.

[BurtonP]

Try Crowns surplus in Calgary, they are breaking down a lot of torch deactivated stens and had a lot of parts. All the bolts I saw though are torch cut at the working face. Same with barrel tips.

[browningautorifle]

Crowns surplus in Calgary, they are breaking down a lot of torch deactivated stens

Really? Still today they have that sort of thing?

[BurtonP]

Yup. They seem to be breaking down many that were deactivated and sold as scrap in the 1970s. Their land is for sale and they are reducing the former owner's vast collection.

[browningautorifle]

the former owner's vast collection.

I remember seeing all that, a Centurion tank with a 20Pdr gun and a 105mm barrel lying beside. A tail turret from a Lanc with guns intact, on and on.