STEN Gun Mk1*

[Brit plumber]

No probs, I can provide photos and measurements. I'm partially through making a mk1* at the moment. If you can use a Mk 2 kit, mk3 barrel, mk3 ejector all you need is a new receiver, front and rear barrel bushings and fabricate a new front sight. My problem at the moment is time and money!

[browningautorifle]

Another vender told him it was a funnel for a loading press.

[Peter Laidler]

Might I suggest that when you do get fuirther into your Mk1* Sten repro/conversion project that you make a totally new barrel from some decent dural, only partially bored at each end. This means that you don't have to slot it. That way anyone who tries to use the old chestnut that in breaking an old one apart (to make into the new one) is an absolute offence has an uphill struggle.

FRirst hand experience of this as an expert witness where someone took a dewat/deactivated Mk2 apart solely to make a Mk2S (and it WAS good too). His saving grace was the fact that the barrel he replaced the slotted barrel with was made from tough black nylon bar stock. Lot more to it than that of course but the case against him floundered before it got off the boards.

He was his own worst enemy initially because he was a) a bit of a gobshxxe, b) too gobby for his own good, c) thought he was a bit more learned than he was and......... anyway! d) didn't take that age old advice of look twice, listen twice before gobbing off once. After all, that's why we have two eyes, two ears and one mouth!

Merry Xmas BP

[stencollector]

Thanks for the advise Peter. The regulations here are that the barrel is blind pinned thru the receiver and chamber and the pin welded in to the gun. There are a bunch of other guidelines to the RCMP approved version of a dewat as well. I have too much invested in my firearms collection to bother straying too far from these guidelines.

[Peter Laidler]

I was thinking of BP when I passed my dewat comments Sten Collector. It looks like he is converting a dewat into another dewat. Could be wrong of course.

We had a re-enactor bloke used to visit us at Warminster who was making a dewat Mk5 from a dewat Mk2. Before he started he sought 'advice' from the local cops......... Jeeeeeees....., you'd think he was Osama Bin Frying Pan looking for an escape clause! Anyway he did it all and made a fantastic job but then they insisted in it being re-proofed again and all that that entails! What a palava. They eventually accepted an engineers statement that not only was it still.......... anyway......, onwards and upwards!

[Brit plumber]

Hi Peter, I can't afford to go down the route of chopping up a De-ac Mk2 so I'm making the whole thing from scratch. The body is made from tube with a thicker wall than the original, the block is solid with no feed ribs and is smaller than a standard block and the barrel will be ally and as its not visible I may even paint it orange due to that useless legislation, the VCR act!