Forming Sten mag lips

[Peter Laidler]

As far as I remember, we didn't ever have a mag lips adjuster for the Sten. We used a simple gauge called an 'angle of presentation' gauge and you simply adjusted the feed lips to allow the round to be presented at 8 degrees as I recall. But additionally, when the round was correctly presented at 8 degrees, the feed lips were parallel. If you couldn't get BOTH, 8 degrees and parallel lips it indicated that the feed lips were worn. You couldn't really mention fancy tools in the same breath as Sten gun!

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[stenmkII]

Thanks all. That kit BRP has is the one I was thinking of. It was $55 or so when I saw it, and at the time I only paid an average of $5 or so for the mags so I figured it wasn't worth it. Definitely not worth $250 to me.

Here's all my MGSs. The Scorpion is a SBR, the rest of them are autos.

The suppressor is a custom one of by Lee Minor from a long time ago. It has a ported barrel and a monocore aluminum baffle assembly. The tube is aluminum with a steel sleeve inside it where the porting is to protect it. The ports are near the chamber end. It's very quiet. The ports bleed off enough to keep 115gr subsonic for the most part. I've let it get dirty which let some bullets go supersonic at altitude as I'm in the mountains.