MkI Bren field expedient recoil spring fix

[WallyG.]

Surprised... found a MkI Bren field expedient - kinked/short recoil spring fix.

Was cleaning the copius Cosmo from the slide group of a Greek sourced MkI (US demil - wood covered in Greek lettered graffiti) and when I removed the recoil spring cap... out popped a 1943 steel cased .45 acp round and a somewhat crushed MkI recoil spring. The spring had compressed the ball round back into the case as far as the powder would let it... and the primer was still live! Not many places to hide a time capsule on a Bren... but some industrious soul managed to do so. Imagine the surprise if that round had gone off in the recoil tube!

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