Bren Gun: Help Needed!

[Peter Laidler]

A Mk2 combination tool is just as good if you also have a set of handymans tools handy too.

F-10 is trying to make it sound so easy for a novice but assembling the carrying handle sleeve, spring, locator and pins from scratch, without having even taken them apart is a pit of a pain. As for the barrel nut catch, spring and plunger puzzle thing that the average UK owner cannot get at in the first place.......... Then there's the carrying handle catch, spring and plunger and......... on an invisible 5 zillion TPI thread

MAKE SURE THAT YOU HAVE SOMEONE SITTING CLOSE BY WHO KNOWS WHAT HE'S DOING. That's advice from someone who has been dealing with them since 1963 and STILL has small springs and plungers flying everywhere.

Here's some GOOD advice for you to start with. On this forum somewhere is a detailed list of ALL the spring lengths and diameters that will tell you exactly where they originate. Some springs LOOK similar in length or wire gauge or diameter. That was done deliberetaly by the Czechs to fool the British.

I should have realised CH was Switzerland as opposed to Czech!!!!!!!

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[Flying10uk]

F-10 is trying to make it sound so easy for a novice

I can only advise about how I would go about tackling the job and others may decide on doing it using a different method. I tried to suggest a logical and methodical method of going about it. It does complicate matters, however, that Meerkoos hasn't taken it apart.

Meerkoos, if you look at the top right of this page there is a box that states "Need help click here", if you then tap in "Stripping the Bren Gun" it should bring up a thread (hopefully the first thread) with a pictorial article by Klunk on how to strip the Bren Gun which you may find useful. There is also much other helpful advice in other threads brought up with this search facility.