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After four years, my first Bren, Inglis 1942 MkIM
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Very nice. Now for the ancillary equipment...like the butt grip. The mount...sight...
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If I'm not mistaken, this gun was restored by another forum member a while back. Mr Clark?
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Here you go
Bren MKIm restoration
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Brit Plumber, I believe it was one of the ones Mr. Clark did. Very nicely done, and glad to have it here.
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Brit plumber
If I'm not mistaken, this gun was restored by another forum member a while back. Mr Clark?
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Here you go
Bren MKIm restoration
thats a good eye you have there. I looked over the pictures and it looks like the barrel numbers match
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Very nice looking Bren. :thup: What's that white stuff?
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The golden era of weapon design that sparked many to follow...The ease of changing mags from prone as opposed to the BAR.
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Without any doubt, the finest light machine gun ever to be put into the hands of a fighting soldier
“…we regularly counted many heads”
(Warrant Officer XXXXXXXXX, a Bren gunner in Korea)
My old friend Warrant Officer 1XXXXXXXX, a Royal Fusilier Korean War veteran, told me of how a pair of Brens, in the hands of steady gun teams firing an odd angry shot, rifle fashion, would lure in probing Chinese or North Korean Infantry snatch squads. These snatch squads hoped to snare and severely punish the ‘frightened and supposedly lost’ British infantry rifle section. It took a steely determination but when the snatch squads were past the point of no return and ensnared, the tables would be turned and they would eventually succumb to the devastating bursts of automatic machine gun fire from the Brens. “…they never learned and we regularly counted many heads” he said. So successful were these tactics that eventually, every rifle section was issued with two Brens.
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Makes perfect sense, especially with them being as accurate as they are, it would make it pretty easy to mistake it for rifle fire.
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The gun is one of the Canadian cut-ups rewelded. The lower may be a replacement...the photos don't show the detail back of the pistol grip. You also don't see the typical burn marks on the pistol grip. But you can see where the contours are lost just under the barrel nut. Shame whoever did it did not invest in a couple small grinding wheels to return most of the profile. What is impressive is that the bluing or park went on fairly evenly over the welded up area. Usually, due to the hardening of the welded area, or the different metal used in the weld, the repaired area reacts differently to the chemicals.
As mentioned already, you need the butt strap, and for originality could replace the front bipod with the extendable leg type.
Hopefully you have better self control than I did. Brens seem to be almost as addictive as Enfields.....you usually can't stop at just one.
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https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...87a019c9-1.jpg
Armourers Note: The Gas Regulator SHOULD be set at the SECOND hole from the Smallest!....................;)
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stencollector
The gun is one of the Canadian cut-ups rewelded. The lower may be a replacement...the photos don't show the detail back of the pistol grip. You also don't see the typical burn marks on the pistol grip. But you can see where the contours are lost just under the barrel nut. Shame whoever did it did not invest in a couple small grinding wheels to return most of the profile. What is impressive is that the bluing or park went on fairly evenly over the welded up area. Usually, due to the hardening of the welded area, or the different metal used in the weld, the repaired area reacts differently to the chemicals.
As mentioned already, you need the butt strap, and for originality could replace the front bipod with the extendable leg type.
Hopefully you have better self control than I did. Brens seem to be almost as addictive as Enfields.....you usually can't stop at just one.
Hi thanks, the bluing took a few applications but I figured out the best recipe. I use simple extra strength simple green as my degreasing agent. As you know oxpho blu is the only way to go for bluing all else I've tried bleed off or are not consistent in there application.
To get a consistant look to bluing with this stuff I had to use a heat gun on the metal before every application. You'll know its hot enough that you get a little steam during application and the metal just sucks in all the bluing solution evenly without a variance in colour due to multiple metal types. I then degreased it again after letting it sit for a while, then repeated the process/application about 4/5 times until it was just right.
The metal work was all done mostly by hand with files, then with a Dremel and a wire brush or a drill. I seem to have a good eye for filing stuff like this I guess after doing it so many times. Basically it's filing, touching, then looking, filing then touching over and over again.
Oh Ya and I suffer from really bad OCD and it helps greatly with stuff like this. You allways get my best work whether I like it or not lol.
If anyone needs some work done let me know at cirving5322@rogers.com and if I can't do one for you I can at least walk you through it so you can do it yourself.
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flying pig
Brit Plumber, I believe it was one of the ones Mr. Clark did. Very nicely done, and glad to have it here.
Yup that's one of my restorations. He was so happy with the work he even gave me more than I asked for it. I was really surprised to see him sell it.
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I was very pleasantly surprised as well. In the end we both walked away happy though. I wanted a Bren so bad. Ha ha. It still hasn't spent more than a day in the gun room without being fondled. Guess we'll see how durable that oxpho blu really is!
