Milled Sten sears

[Vincent]

Anyone know why she’s hitting the sears with a hammer?

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[Lee Enfield]

Anyone know why she’s hitting the sears with a hammer?

http://i548.photobucket.com/albums/i...sa%20sears.jpg

Probably setting the spring pin

[Peter Laidler]

Harold Turpin designed the punched, folded and fabricated sear too. But after the war, when the Government were giving out (somewhat paltry) awards for inventors, he submitted a claim for this and other inventions. But, alas, he was employed as a draughtsman at Enfield and they argued that that was in fact his job! So his (dual) invention of the Sten Gun went unrewarded. He claimed that the sear was done entirely at home, using cardboard templates and in his own time. He also submitted the same account regarding the fabricated one-piece magazine catch. They relented and awarded him the grand sun of £1500.

[Vincent]

Probably setting the spring pin

That must be it. Thanks.

[CINDERS]

The way they mass produced arms in that era is just staggering think the USA was producing one Sherman tank every 30 minutes off the production line

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[RASelkirk]

The way they mass produced arms in that era is just staggering think the USA was producing one Sherman tank every 30 minutes off the production line[COLOR="black"]

Makes me laugh to think about how quickly the good ol' USA could "ramp up" production today. Trying to convert all the McDonald's, Walmart's, Lowe's, etc. over to war production...

Russ

[Bruce_in_Oz]

Speaking of mass-production in wartime, one of the prime examples is the B-24 Liberator bomber.

Ford Motor Company designed and BUILT the factory and airfield at Willow Run in six months. The main assembly shed was a MILE long.

The first aircraft rolled off the line in late 1942

When production ceased in mid 1945, over eight and a half thousand of these four-engined bombers had been completed.

Not bad from a standing start.

[Vincent]

the B-24 Liberator bomber.

Also called, “the box the B-17 came in.”

[Vincent]

In the film they are welding without jigs or a heatsink/backer. Presumably it’s a different factory with a different process?

I love seeing women making guns. What could be better for a crusader than a gun made by women and a lard quenched blade.

I wonder why her ball-peen hammer was castrated.

[Peter Laidler]

I was absolutely horrified by the total and blatant disregard for any form of health and safety Vince and others. It makes me wonder how we ever won the war or how we produced 2.5 million Sten guns. I shudder at the very thought of it. Sleepless nights too