Need help identifying this Sten

[Vincent]

I couldn’t find a picture of attachment block I was talking about. I did find a slightly different one. It will give you an idea of how it works.






It’s a semi-auto version. The slot in the block prevents the tripping lever from being moved into the automatic position. The round hole is for the pin that holds the trigger mechanism housing in place. Anyhow, you can see how the housing is attached and why the ears are not needed.

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[5 Commando]

I couldn’t find a picture of attachment block I was talking about. I did find a slightly different one. It will give you an idea of how it works.

http://i548.photobucket.com/albums/i...0block%201.jpg


http://i548.photobucket.com/albums/i...0block%202.jpg

It’s a semi-auto version. The slot in the block prevents the tripping lever from being moved into the automatic position. The round hole is for the pin that holds the trigger mechanism housing in place. Anyhow, you can see how the housing is attached and why the ears are not needed.

A picture says a thousand words indeed, and is probably what's been done here, thanks. The reluctance of the seller to provide further info or pics raised the final flag for me and I've declined the purchase gracefully. On a side note. Here on the continent we're still spoiled for choices when it comes to deactivated Stens and the like. New 2016 EU rules which dictate deacts to be welded up are now being legally circumvented. Vendors now provide - quite lawfully - deacts that are sold as "parts", without barrel or bolt and trigger mechanism. For many this is ideal - simple enough to source the rest and reassemble into a perfect and unaltered piece. Not quite what the draconian framers of the new guidelines had in mind. Another example of the idiocy that is hurled in bucket-loads from the ivory towers of Brussels. Leave.

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I can't add anything more except that while the remainder of the gun is definately a Sten, albeit filed and linished to make the thing look good, the main casing is 'wrong'. A bit like a VW Beetle made into a dune-buggy. It might sound like a VW and run like a VW and be basically a VW floor pan.......... it ain't a VW Beetle!

Touché. It's a dung beetle!